Today's world creates challenges that are overwhelming for so many kids and their families. Living without the necessary supports and sometimes the basics forces kids to go out and seek what they believe they need to survive. Many have become throwaway s and move to the streets and the underbelly of our society. As a society, we often assume that they have behavior disorders or have escaped their homes and just for a thrill. Yet for many of these kids, it is a choice between surviving or being abused, neglected, or killed at the hands of a supposedly trusted adult. This book is a real portrait of their struggles, their challenges, and their victories. Children in Crisis is a resource to build awareness, understanding, and solutions for educators, parents, and anyone working with children and adolescents.

Product Description: Read Nancy Carlsson-Paige's posts on the Penguin BlogBased on early-childhood development expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige’s thirty years of researching young children, this groundbreaking book helps parents navigate the cultural currents shaping, and too often harming, kids today—and restore childhood to the best of what it can be...read more

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Product Description: Learning to Dream With Your Eyes Open: A Survival Guide for Inner City Youth is a narrative non-fiction written to help inner city youth overcome obstacles to achieving success. The author uses practical advice and real-life scenarios to paint a vivid picture of the path to success...read more

Product Description: Implement prevention interventions and policies to curb the cycle of violence in our schools!Kids and Violence: The Invisible School Experience examines overt and covert violence occurring in the school setting involving students, school personnel, and school policy, and highlights a level of violence that is often hidden, ignored, or subtly tolerated...read more

Product Description: Shocking Violence II: Violent Disaster, War, and Terrorism Affecting Our Youth provides current academic and practical knowledge from the viewpoints of a variety of expert academicians and professionals to address the most pressing and relevant issues of our recent times...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Most examinations of juvenile violence are limited in the behaviors studied and the theories used. To address these issues Nofziger applies a test of Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) General Theory of Crime to a range of violent and intimidating acts...read more

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The best-selling author of Parent Power! and Teen-Proofing explores the current rash of youth violence and aggression in America and offers practical, commonsense advice for parents on how to teach their children manners, characters, responsibility, respect for others, and self-control. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This illustrated guide provides a concise, clear overview of youth violence that will allow all parents, students, teachers and interested citizens to consider the underlying causes of youth violence and what can be done to address the issue...read more

Examines the origins of violence in children, arguing that psychopathology begins as early as age three, and proposing radical methods of dealing with homicidal youth.

Discusses how childhood development is affected by violence (view table of contents)

Product Description: Children in America experience violence in many forms. They are the victims of physical and sexual abuse within their families, they witness battering of and by their parents, and they experience or witness violence in schools and communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The contributors to this book believe that something can be done to make life in American cities safer, to make growing up in urban ghettos less risky, and to reduce the violence that so often afflicts urban childhood. They consider why there is so much violence, why some people become violent and others do not, and why violence is more prevalent in some areas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Dr. Cohn offers parents not just reassurances, but specific strategies and techniques to help their children grow into caring, brave adults.

Product Description: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified youth violence as a major public health problem. What impact does exposure to violence--be it in the form of victimization, observation, or knowledge--have on young people? How do they develop a sense of morality? And how does it affect their perception of the world around them? Devoted to this crisis in American life, this volume--originally published as a special issue of the journal Psychiatry--documents the rise in violence in our communities and explores its impact on children's physical, psychological, and social development...read more