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What Teens Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Shape Your Own Future
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Product Description
This book contains a variety of proven, practical ideas for teens to shape their own future and learn the best ways to succeed. Illustrations .
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #234512 in Books
- Published on: 1998-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9781575420271
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Grade 7 Up-Psychologist Benson and former teacher/counselor Galbraith based their writing on surveys of over 350,000 U.S. teens to provide a unique look at "positive assets"-good things that contribute to an individual's success in life. External assets include families, peers, spiritual support systems, schools, neighborhoods and their wider communities, while internal assets are defined as motivation, honesty, responsibility, decision-making skills, resistance skills, and more. Quotations from other Free Spirit self-help books and Search Institute findings are significant parts of this title, as are charts, graphs, quizzes, checklists, facts and statistics, illustrative and factual anecdotes, and myriad resources (Web sites, books, pamphlets, and contact organizations). Densely formatted, the typeface varies in size with lists, source notes, and bibliographic citations often reduced in size. A comprehensive index helps alleviate the sense of an overwhelming amount of information. A useful resource for teens and those who work with them.
Gail Richmond, San Diego Unified Schools, CA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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About the Author
Judy Galbraith, M.A., has a master’s degree in guidance and counseling of the gifted. She has worked with and taught gifted children and teens, their parents, and their teachers for over 20 years. In 1983, she started Free Spirit Publishing, which specializes in Self-Help for Kids® and Self-Help for Teens® books and other learning materials.
Pamela Espeland has authored, coauthored, or edited over 200 books for Free Spirit Publishing on a variety of subjects. Pamela graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and currently lives in Minneapolis.
Customer Reviews
Outstanding book for both parent & child to read.
This book should be a requirement in every home. It is wriiten for a teen but shoul dbe read by both parent and child. The concept of the 40 assets is fundamentally simple. The book defines the assets and then gives advice on how the adolescent, parent(s), community,school, and congregation can help to ensure that a child is brought up with all of the assets they need to be a successful person. It has examples of the successes that communities across the country have had setting the concepts of the assets into into motion. The excellence of the book is reinforced by a lecture I attended by Dr. Benson 2 months ago. The concept of the developmental assets being the framework for a successful, well-rounded person makes perfect sense. It should be adopted as a National standard.
A wonderful book for teens and their parents!
We like the book so much that we are adopting the asset building concepts featured!
As the Red Ribbon Chair for the Red Ribbon Coalition, I will urge volunteer coordinators to put at least one copy in their school library!
Irvine Unified School District's Guidance Resources will include the list of 40 Developmental Assets (from the book) in our 1999/2000 parent handbook.
This is an excellent resource for anyone who cares about helping youth succeed!
