Reclaiming Youth At Risk

A balance of wisdom drawn from Native American philosophies and Western psychology, this book offers a unique perspective for connecting with troubled students. It challenges educators to see youth at risk through new eyes and offers compelling, concrete alternatives for reclaiming them.

Based on the book by the same title, the Reclaiming Youth at Risk video workshop takes viewers inside two schools and two residential treatment centers that have experienced great success in creating environments that allow young people to transfrom crisis into opportunity and failure into success.

Empower your alienated students to cultivate a deep sense of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. This fully updated edition of Reclaiming Youth at Risk by Larry K. Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg, and Steve Van Bockern merges Native American knowledge and Western science to create a unique alternative for reaching disconnected or troubled youth. Rely on the book's new neuroscience research, insights, and examples to help you establish positive relationships, foster social learning and emotional development, and inspire every young person to thrive and overcome. Drive positive youth development with the updated Reclaiming Youth at Risk: Study the four hazards that dominate the lives of youth at risk: relational trauma, failure as futility, powerlessness, and loss of purpose. Learn how cultivating the Circle of Courage values of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity can combat the four hazards. Explore a unique strength-based approach for reclaiming discouraged or alienated youth. Understand how to create a safe, brain-friendly learning environment and break the conflict cycle. Read personal accounts of individuals who have transformed student trauma into student resilience in schools through trauma-informed practice. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Enduring Truths Chapter 2: The Circle of Courage Chapter 3: Seeds of Discouragement Chapter 4: Bonds of Trust Chapter 5: Strength for Learning Chapter 6: Pathways to Responsibility Chapter 7: Lives With Purpose Chapter 8: From Surviving to Thriving References and Resources

Discover effective ways of connecting with youth at risk. In this inspiring resource, the authors focus on strength-based alternatives to punishment, including creative ways to develop trusting relationships, search for hidden potential, and instill purpose in students

In Kids Who Outwit Adults, the authors disclose the "private logic" behind kids' troubled and defiant acts. Weaving together an effective, rewarding approach based on successful and proven resilience models, insights from their years of experience, and youths' own heart wrenching accounts, the authors illuminate the internal strengths and external supports kids need in order to break out of negative behavior patterns ...

This is a book designed to encourage and assist counselors, parents, teachers and youth workers. The reader will find a description of what is meant by the term "KId Whipsering" as well as important assumptions. The reader is then guided through a discussion of critical concepts that will equip them to be more effective at understanding kid's costumes, reaching beyond that costume, addressing the inside kid, appreciating the young person's story and challenging youth to make more effective, positive choices.

Take control of your life and move into a healthy and happy relationship. Move from trauma to understanding and healing. We do not get over it, but we can get through it.