Learning to Like the Kid in the Mirror (Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth)

The lessons in this book build self-esteem in children and teens. Designed for use by teachers, counselors, youth workers and parents, this book has 20 lessons that utilize powerful, attention-grabbing strategies to help children and teens develop a positive feeling about themselves and their accomplishments. Many lessons include handouts. This book is perfect for the classroom, counseling room or home. Using a light, engaging approach, these lesson can involve even sour, negative, withdrawn, easily bored and oppositional youth and children.

Lessons include: "On the Cover of 'Esteem Magazine,'" "Nobody's Perfect All the Time", "So What's So Good About Me?, and "Building Esteem is an Inside Job." Handouts accompany many lessons and use cartoons to involve students who are not normally easily engaged. The lessons in these books were designed to work when conventional approaches fail, and were honed on children and youth with a wide range of problems. These lessons may be the new, more powerful tools you need to maximize your impact on your troubled and challenged youth and children.