Reaching Teens

Book Synopsis: Proud recipient of Digital Health Awards, Spring 2021. Completely revised and updated, Reaching Teens provides communications strategies to effectively engage with today's teenagers. This professional toolkit combines video and text to show how recognizing, reinforcing, and building on inherent strengths supports positive youth development.

More than 400+ videos combine with written chapters and an enhanced website platform to show how strength-based communication engages and empowers teens. It is an invaluable resource for anyone who works with teens, pediatricians and other physicians, mental health care providers, social services workers, and educators.

Key Features

• A robust toolkit that helps youth-serving professionals apply the key principles found in positive youth development, resilience, and trauma-sensitive care.
• A professional toolkit that uses 400+ videos, written chapters, and group learning and discussion processes to reinforce learning.
• Twenty-nine new chapters--93 total
• New website companion, which includes:
• Full book content, plus references
• Expanded version of select chapters
• In-chapter access to videos and group learning and discussion
• Tailored learning resources for different audiences created in conjunction with subject matter experts:
  • Education settings
  • Health care settings
  • Juvenile justice settings
  • Foster care settings
  • Substance use programs and recovery settings
  • Sports and physical recreation
  • Settings that serve youth enduring homelessness, unstable housing, or human trafficking
• Earn CME credits/CEUs