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Breakthrough Strategies to
Teach and Counsel
Troubled Youth Book Series

Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth
SERIES OVERVIEW

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Set of 11 books, sold as a set for $139 and by volume for $15. The Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth lesson series books deliver immediate help to turnaround your troubled, defiant, and challenged youth and children. This series is packed with must-have, innovative interventions to stop problems with violence, anger control,

withdrawal, non-compliance, poor motivation, school failure, peer conflict, low self-esteem, bad attitudes, truancy, dropping out, and more. These approaches were created to work when conventional approaches fail. For use by anyone who needs more effective methods for difficult or troubled students, these books are designed to work with children and youth in grades K through 12. These books use a quick-access lesson plan format, with 20 lessons per book.

Safe Learning magazine reviewed these books in their March/April 2001 issue: "Materials are short, brightly written, useful and full of unconventional wisdom." The Portland Oregonian noted that "Youth Change publishes educational materials designed to teach disruptive students the social skills necessary for good classroom performance." Youth Today Newspaper's review praised the books as offering "good tips on approaching difficult topics." Our Breakthrough Strategies lesson books live up to these reviews. Each book comes with many attention-grabbing student worksheets that you can immediately print and use. Get all the tools you need to do your job.
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The Last Chance School Success Guide

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TV Viewers Needed for High Paying Jobs

Ready or Not, Here Life Comes

Education: Don't Leave Home Without It

Even You Can Get Along With Teachers

The Tassel is Worth the Hassle plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

This book delivers the newest and best lessons to turnaround negative, defiant, oppositional, conduct-disordered, misbehaved, problem youth who seem unable to accept authority or function successfully in school. Especially designed for youth who are unresponsive to conventional approaches, this book may be the new tools needed for alternative ed students, youth who constantly receive disciplinary action, truants and drop-outs. This book actually eases very negative, discouraged and apathetic youth into re-evaluating their behaviors and attitudes about school, then teaches more successful alternatives. Honed with extremely misbehaved students, these lessons can stop the problems that are occurring, or be used pro-actively to stop problems before they happen. Order paperbacks Order ebooks

Temper and Tantrum Tamers

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Find Work Where Aggression Works

How to Keep a Grip on Yourself

Outside Anger That Comes to School

Spot Aggressiveness Before it (Or You) Strikes

Turn Down the Heat at Home ...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

In some homes, in the neighborhood, watching TV, and elsewhere, kids are being thoroughly trained on how to be violent. They may receive little or no training to act non-violently. Expecting youth and children to act peacefully, while knowing that many kids are never taught how and why to do so, may be a very unfair expectation. It can be hard for kids to perform behaviors that they are not taught. This book systematically teaches children and youth how and why to behave peacefully. Everything that a youth needs to do to function peacefully can be taught using these lessons, including teaching appropriate use of hands, face, feet, mouth, legs, etc. These lessons also give you the newest and best ways to give kids the motivation they need to be willing to become more peaceful. Developed with troubled, delinquent and out-of-control youth, these lessons ease even the most negative and oppositional youth into reconsidering their behavior and attitude. Stop expecting kids to do behaviors that they were never taught, and instead, first teach the behaviors, attitudes and motivation you want using the powerful lessons packed into this book. Order paperbacks Order ebooks

A Child's Guide to Surviving in a Troubled Family

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Work It Out Instead of Act It Out

Nobody Else But Me Has Problems Like These

There's an Alcoholic/Addict in Our Family

Nobody Ever Asked Me if I Wanted a Divorce

Family Problems are Never Your Fault ...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

This is the one book that belongs in the office of every counselor, social worker, psychologist, foster parent, teacher and youth worker. This book can sometimes bring solace and solutions to children and youth who are suffering through very serious family problems. Packed with lessons to assist youngsters to manage divorce, domestic violence, family substance abuse, sexual abuse, and other major concerns, this book is perfect for counseling, group sessions, the classroom or office. The lessons explain the problem objectively and gently, then provide specific assistance to the youth to cope with the difficulty they face. Youth Today Newspaper in March, 1993, said that this book is filled with "good tips on approaching serious family problems." If you work with youth who struggle with their family's pain, then put these sensitive, powerful lessons to work easing the pain that your children face. Order paperbacks Order ebooks

Turn On the Turned-Off Student

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Maximum-Strength Motivation Makers

Are You Ready For Life in the Adult Lane?

Put Aside Problems During School

Missing Today Makes It Harder to Learn Tomorrow

Even Rock Stars Gonna Need School ...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

There are very few, if any, schools in North America that have a formal, written-down plan to train their students to be motivated for school. Consequently, many teachers feel that they are working with very unmotivated students. This book is filled with surprising lessons and strategies to turnaround the most negative, apathetic, bored, disinterested, jaded, oppositional, discouraged learner. Not just designed for use with alternative ed and special ed students, this book contains the training that many other students need to come to view school as absolutely critical and essential. This book has specific lessons to respond even to students who believe that school is unnecessary because they will marry a wealthy man, go on welfare, become a rock star, become a sports star, etc. Especially effective with children from homes that have communicated that school is not important, these lessons may give your students the training they must have before they can succeed in school. This training should be offered every student, but since it is not, even if you are not a teacher, but a parent, counselor, social worker or truancy officer, you may want to ensure that at least your students are actually motivated to show up, stay awake, and work in school by exposing them to the lessons in this unusually effective, innovative lesson book. Order paperbacks Order ebooks

Education: Don't Start the Century Without It

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Will Your Skills-- Or You-- Work in the New Century?

Work for Your Diploma Now, Your Diploma Will Work for You Forever

Will Yesterday's Skills Work Tomorrow?

Will You Make Cents in the New Century?

The More You Learn, the More You Earn ...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

This book is the solution if you work with students who believe that they will never need an education. Especially if your students hear at home that school is not important, this book can convincingly teach otherwise. The lessons "toss" your youth farther into our new millennium and dramatically convey the difficulties that drop-outs will face, including diminishing job choices, decreasing salaries and difficulty performing everyday tasks in an increasingly technological society. If you need a way to "hit your students over the head" with the importance of finishing school, then you will use every lesson in this book. When conventional approaches fail, turn to this book for the solutions you need for discouraged, absent, bored, oppositional, disinterested, under-performing, special ed, alternative ed or mainstream students. The lessons can truly turnaround the poor motivation, but also can be used pro-actively to stop the problems before they ever happen.
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All-Time Favorite Lessons

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Space Invaders and Your Personal Space Forcefield

Learn to Think First: Become a Think-o-Matic

The Top 10 Ways the Teacher Can't Tell You Need Help

Are Gang Members Gang-Dependent?

On Time Every Time ...plus 15 more lessons, most with worksheets

Can't decide which book to get because your kids have such a big array of problems? Then consider getting the book that has a variety of lessons. These are the lessons that youth workers have hollered the loudest about getting published because the interventions were so good they didn't want to have to wait even a minute longer to get these strategies in book form. The book is packed with problem-stopping lessons for all the different problems your kids present: peer interaction problems, gang problems, making excuses, punctuality, getting help from the teacher, making mistakes, following rules and building good esteem. If you want the most beloved lessons that our company has ever produced, then according to our workshop participants, this book has all the best lessons and solutions that exist. Order paperbacks Order ebooks

Build On-the-Job Success Skills

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Are You a Co-Worker or a Co-Work Shirker?

Words That Get You Fired or Keep You Hired

How to Survive the Monster Boss

50 Ways to Leave Your Employer and Ever Work Again

How to Say "Yes" to the Boss...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

If you are a job trainer, the boss of young employees, a summer youth work supervisor, or anyone who prepares youth for success in the work place, then this book can rapidly train youth to become prepared, motivated, on time, appropriately behaved workers. This is book also is perfect for any youngsters who think that they "know it all already." Topics covered include: saying "yes" to the boss, when to make excuses, following directions, interacting with customers and co-workers, punctuality and understanding your pay check, This book uses attention-grabbing, compelling methods to powerfully and persuasively give youth the right attitudes, skills and motivations for work place success. Nearly any problem a youth might encounter can be pro-actively avoided by training your youth with the lessons in this book. Don't let your youth start their next job without being trained to succeed.
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Coping Skills Sampler

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The Cost of My Actions

It Can Be Tough Being a Kid

Deny It or Not, You May be Gang-Dependent

Are You Talking About Doing?

Everybody Makes Mistooks...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

Here is the book that covers all types of coping problems. Each lesson focuses in on one single coping problem area such as gangs, setting goals, self-esteem, denial and honesty. If you work with kids who have an array of coping problems, then this book gives you the variety of lessons that you need to address many of those problems. Each lesson uses a colorful, engaging approach to teach new behaviors, attitudes and motivations in a way that can work even with oppositional, depressed, defiant, negative, discouraged, withdrawn or uncooperative youth and children. The book to turn to when conventional approaches fail, this book is perfect for group or individual counseling sessions, but is also designed to work in the classroom, foster home, treatment center, counseling office or clinic. Order paperbacks Order ebooks

Learning to Like the Kid in the Mirror

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Deciding My Own Opinion of Me

Is Esteem More Than Just a Lot of Hot Air?

Building Esteem is an Inside Job

Everybody Knows Somebody Who Doesn't Like Them Sometimes

Even Winners Sometimes Lose...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheets

This unique and powerful book has the unusual and compelling lessons to build esteem in children. The attention-grabbing, engaging activities included in the lesson plans are fun and light ways to teach kids to value themselves. These lessons are especially appropriate for children who have struggled with abusive homes or other debilitating family problems. The handouts are engaging and use cartoons to reach kids who otherwise might be too withdrawn, negative or oppositional to properly participate. This book is designed for the classroom, group room, office or home, and for use by anyone who wants to assist a child with low self-esteem. Inside this book are the very best, most compelling ways to powerfully and rapidly impact the self-worth of children and youth. Order paperbacks Order ebooks

Ready, Set, Go! For Independent Living

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Are You Ready for a Typical Day as an Adult?

What I 'Gotta Do' When I Move Out

Budgeting and Bill Paying

There's Something to Do When There's Nothing to Do

Are You Ready for Independent Living?...plus 15 more lessons, many with worksheet

This is the one book that has everything you need to prepare youth to succeed on their own. If your youngsters believe that they don't even need this help, then this book has lessons to convince them that simply isn't true, so this book is a great resource also for children who believe they are ready to emancipate, but are really nowhere near ready. The lessons also powerfully teach independent readiness skills like securing housing, keeping housing, interacting with property managers, budgeting, eating healthy, and much more. Even the emotional problems that can occur during the transition to independence are covered in a pro-active way that can prevent the types of transition problems that often occur in the first days of independence. The book includes the character "Independence Man," who teaches skills in a way that engages even the most negative, difficult, uncooperative, "I know it already," youth into benefitting from the lessons. This book is a must-have for anyone who works with older adolescents or children who believe that they are already to live on their own. Order paperbacks Order ebooks

What Every Girl Needs to Know About the Real World

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Does a Girl Need a Guy Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle

If a Baby is the Answer, What's the Question?

Give the Boot to Problem Hands

What Today's Girl Needs to Know By Tomorrow

Staying Safe Starting Now...plus 15 more lessons, most with worksheet

Finally, a book for girls' special problem areas. This book is must-have for anyone who assists girls and young women to manage problems that are especially encountered by young females. Problem areas covered include domestic violence, sexual abuse, date rape, teen pregnancy, teen parenting, gender bias, self-esteem, motivation and more. Problem areas are gently explained then specific ways to manage the problem are offered. Using humor, cartoons and surprising, unconventional interventions, girls are eased into making changes that they otherwise might successfully resist. This book can become the perfect addition for your group, one-to-one counseling session, classroom, foster home or office. Ease the suffering and struggle of your young women by choosing resources that are crafted just for use with girls and young women. Stop using one-gender-fits-all, unisex approaches that are not targeting your girls' problems. Start using the newest and fastest, gender-proficient ways to assist girls to survive and thrive even while facing significant barriers and obstacles. Order paperbacks Order ebooks

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