Product Description

Reclaiming Youth At Risk offers educators and others access to unique strategies for reaching troubled youth. This resource explores: · The roots of discouragement in today s youth, including destructive relationships, learned irresponsibility, and a loss of purpose. · How to create a Circle of Courage to give youth a sense of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. · How to mend a circle that has been broken. · How to reclaim youth who are troubled or lost.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27645 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

About the Author
Larry K. Brendtro, Ph.D., is president of Reclaiming Youth International, a nonprofit organization networking those serving children who are in conflict with family, school, and community. Dr. Brendtro has had broad experience as a psychologist, educator, and youth worker and is past president of Starr Commonwealth in Michigan and Ohio. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. The Reverend Canon Martin Brokenleg, Ph.D., is professor of Native American Studies at Augustana College and dean of the Black Hills Seminars on youth at risk. He holds a doctorate in psychology and is a graduate of the Episcopal Divinity School. He has been a director of The Neighborhood Youth Corps, chaplain in a correctional setting, and has extensive experience as an alcohol counselor. He is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe practicing the culture of his Lakota people. Steve Van Bockern, Ph.D., is professor of Education at Augustana College and dean of the Reclaiming Youth Institute, which conducts research on strength-based prevention and intervention. He has directed grants for the National Science Foundation and the Kellogg Foundation. Dr. Van Bockern serves as a co-director for the Black Hills Seminars and is a senior trainer for the Life Space Crisis Intervention Institute of Hagerstown, Maryland.

Customer Reviews

A Must -Have for Teachers and Administrators
As Education Director at an alternative high school for American Indian students, I find this book a valuable and useable resource. In a succinct fashion, the authors lay out a philosphy for creating school environments that reclaim students at risk. The Reclaiming model integrates traditional Native American aproaches to discipline and child development. The book does a nice job of explaining and illustrating each of its principles. The book offers an intuitive and very old model as well as a rationale for implementing it. For its accessibility and ideas, Reclaiming Youth At Risk should be read by everyone working with young adults.

Promoting a reclaiming environment.
This book is wonderful in guiding teachers and administrators in developing an atmosphere that promotes the positive development of all children. After a large section devoted to describing the wrong-doings of Americans and the decay of our value system (at times a little extreme,) the latter part of the book gives great strategies for the development of positive classroom management and a "reclaiming environment." Worth a read.

Rethinking Youth and Relationships
This is a great tool for people working with youth. It is a simply written book that avoids any of the modern jargon in this area; it also deals directly with the issues facing adults and youths and their involvement with each other. It attempts to redirect our way of thinking about troubled young people and works on showing a way to restore their relationships with themselves, each other, adults and the 'real' world. This book isn't bogged down in goobledygook and aims to show a way to create restorative relationship practices and includes much well worn wisdom.