Thoroughly researched, this easy-to-use handbook is designed to help parents, teachers, pastors and youth workers guide today's young people through the minefields of adolescence. From simple challenges to major crises, this book will equip adults to help youth cope with situations involving emotional issues, abuse, addictions, family issues, disorders, sexual issues and much more.

Drugs and alcohol. Self-injury. Eating disorders. Puberty. Suicide. Sexual purity. These are just a few of the challenges facing teens and young adults today. This concise, topical guide to the Bible is the perfect tool for parents and youth pastors wanting to provide scriptural guidance to youth regarding the issues they face in their formative years. Now updated, revised, and expanded with new topics.

The newest addition to the growing "Right from Wrong" resource center, this comprehensive guide contains hard-hitting, relevant information on a wide variety of personal issues, showing how readers can help young people. Each chapter begins with a case history followed by a discussion of the causes and effects of the problem, a biblical perspective, and the suggested response.

Teens have special mental and emotional issues that need to be addressed by pastors and their colleagues in ministry. For this reason, clergy and caregivers need to know about the most common mental disorders that occur in adolescents, including how to assess and diagnose them, what types of treatment can be initiated in the faith community, when referral is required, and to whom to make a referral. This book identifies twenty-two of the most common mental health conditions that occur among adolescents, provides illustrative cases, lists national resources available to help, and suggests when and from whom to seek additional professional help. There is an emphasis on self-help resources available on the Internet, a major source of information for teens.

This is an instructional book for those who work with latency-aged children, with a special emphasis on the defiant and agressive child. It presents basic principles of counselling, and a discussion of the developmental failures children referred for counselling. The use of developmental orientation honours the fact that children are children first and troubled children second. It gives concrete examples of what to do in specific situations, such as when the child won't leave the counselling room or when the child continually subjects you to verbal abuse. Clear language is used to describe interactions between counsellors and children in a variety of situations, and the underlying clinical judgements that inform these interactions.

In this handbook, various Christian authors offer practical advice and guidance to those who counsel troubled youth. This text will help counselors understand how the gospel of Christ can inform and impact their interactions with youth in crisis.