Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Identity Issues

Name: Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Identity Issues
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ISBN: 9780313305320

ISBN-10: 0313305323

ISBN-13: 9780313305320

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jeffrey S. Kaplan Ed.

List price: $63.00

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The search for one's identity is an ancient quest reflected throughout history in stories where human glory and conquest are often layered with great pain and self doubt, meant to help people discover themselves and who they are. Today, this quest is found prevalently in young adult novels, where characters wrestle with modern dilemmas in order to find themselves. This reference resource provides a link for teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults to those novels and how to use them effectively. Educators and therapists explore the literature where common identity issues are addressed in ways intriguing to teens. Using fictional characters, these experts provide guidance on…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 11/30/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction


Prologue by Joan Bauer Identity within the Family


The Year of the Gopher


Identity through Body Image


Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes


Sexual Identity


Identity through Intimacy


Sex Education


Identity through Self-Awareness


Memoirs of a Bookbat


Identity within the Father-Son Relationship


A Day No Pigs Would Die


Identity within Societal Expectations


The Outsiders


Identity Confusion


The Language of Goldfish


Identity through the Realization of Prejudice


Drummers of Jericho


Identity from Destruction


Tunes for Bears to Dance to


Identity through Peers


Harry and Hortense at Hormone High