Whats Happening To My Teen PDF Download

You want to help them. They don't want to be helped. How on earth are you going to reach those troubled teens? This is the essential guide to reaching troubled teens based on Sam Ross' years of listening to, researching and working with the most challenging, disengaged young people. Written in the voice of those teens and also in hers, it will change the way you work with young people. This is what our troubled teens need you to read. This is what they need you to hear. This is what they need from you. Read this and change lives. "I've never met any worker who actually cares, you know, who really wants to know and understand me. Sam does, and she she's helped me turn my life around, get it right. She's like magic. I wish all workers were like her." K, age 17 "I particularly like how she writes from the teen's perspective. I regularly recommend her site to schools, youth workers, social workers, school health and loads of parents." Matt Chipchase, Lancashire County Council Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub "She has guided me towards a more empathic way of working. It has encouraged me to make use of the most important resource available to those working with teenagers- the young people themselves." D. Chambers, Homelessness Support Worker (16-25s) Sam Ross, BSc, MSc, MSc, Cert EP (YJ) is a Teen Behavioural Consultant and founder of the popular Teenage Whisperer blog (www.teenagewhisperer.co.uk). She is passionate about connecting with and helping the most challenging, disengaged and troubled teens to turn their lives around. She works in both educational and criminal justice settings, both with young people and their parents or carers. Really understanding teens is the beginning, middle and end of her work and she helps professionals and parents achieve this through her website, books and public speaking engagements.