A Leader's Guide to the Struggle to Be Strong: How to Foster Resilience in Teens

by Sybil Wolin, Al Desetta, Keith Hefner

Activities, exercises, and questions invite teens to go deeper into the stories in , relate them to their lives, recognize their own potential for resilience, and start building resiliency skills. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575420805
• ISBN13: 9781575420806
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

A one of a kind resource for changing hearts and minds!

A unique and empowering guide for anyone concerned with youth development. A Leader's Guide to The Struggle to Be Strong presents a creative and insightful connection of thirty stories written by teens about their own struggles to the seven resiliencies developed by Sybil and Steven Wolin is a masterpiece of strength based practice! It is refreshing and truly empowering to find a book that uses kids' struggles and pride to help other kids identify their unique resiliencies. A Leader's Guide to The Struggle to Be Strong is a gift to any strengths based practitioner. The concrete session plans offer suggestions for group leader preparation and practical suggestions for using the thirty stories in The Struggle to Be Strong. I will immediately give a personal copy to my teachers and group leaders.An excellent and one of its kind resource for changing hearts and minds!Erik K. Laursen, Ph.D.