The Youth Worker's Guide to Helping Teenagers in Crisis
- Children & Youth
- Publisher: Zondervan Reflective (Zondervan)
- Published: 2007
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Publisher's Description
When youth work becomes crisis managers. Anyone who stays in youth ministry for a while will encounter significant crises. Family break-ups, substance abuse, sexual assault, eating disorders, cutting, suicide, gun violenceŠ But without proper and immediate care, crises like these can cause years of emotional pain and spiritual scarring in students. Rich Van Pelt and Jim Hancock want to help you prevent that from happening. Through their experience and expertise, you¹ll learn how to: -Respond quickly and effectively to crisis -Balance legal, ethical, and spiritual outcomes -Forge preventive partnerships with parents, schools, and students -Bring healing when damage is done When crises happen‹and they will, ready or not‹there are practical steps you can take. Van Pelt and Hancock provide field-tested counsel and specific, biblical advice for each stage of crisis. Keep this book on hand as your go-to resource when you need it most. Because when it comes to crisis, it¹s not a matter of if, but when.
Endorsements (6)
“This book is conversationally encyclopedic, comfortably competent, and warmly professional… just like Rich and Jim. It’s what you would hope for from friends who are wonderfully gifted to help us minister to teens in crisis.”
Dr. Dave Rahn
“This book presents the dark side of youth ministry. It is the under-belly of our youth groups. It is the messy, complicated and uncomfortable side of life. Rich and Jim are tackling some difficult subjects in this book. This book will be a valuable tool that will not remain on the shelf but will draw you back to it year after year. You’ll gain insights and practical advice on how to minister to hurting students. You will learn how to build relationships, how to reach out, how to lend a caring hand and a listening ear. These situations presented in the book offer opportunities to come along side students in crisis. The book is filled with real life stories that you will identify with. I highly recommend it.”
“A must-have resource for every church and parachurch ministry. Rich and Jim have done a great job of describing and defining every possible crisis situation a youth worker will face.”
“What we hear in these pages are the voices of two tested and trusted youth workers who know what it’s like to be in the trenches of real life ministry and to come alongside hurting kids (One wonders sometimes if there are any other kinds of kids; sometimes they all seem to be hurting!). The landscape of their combined youth ministry experience is a vast expanse of all kinds of terrain: local church parish ministry, parachurch ministry, ministry with institutionalized kids, counseling ministry - all the peaks and valleys of everyday youth work, deep canyons, steep cliffs, dark caves, scary places. And yet they remind us that all of these trails can lead us to a place of ‘dangerous opportunity’.” “What makes this book so valuable to youth workers is that these two guides lead us, with steady hands, capable minds and compassionate hearts to explore these places, to meet kids in these places, and to help bring them back to a place of sanctuary. There’s enough meat to be effective and enough step-by-step advice (“action plans” throughout) to be practical. This book will be a user-friendly guide for youth workers, counselors, parents, pastors and teachers who have a desire ‘to seek and to save the lost’.”
“Every person who works with students should have this book… including parents. We live in a time where it is vital to know how to help kids deal with life and all the messed up stuff that happens in it. Rich and Jim speak out of much wisdom and years of experience. They communicate brilliantly and succinctly. Read this. It’s important!”
“Camps and Catalyst Conferences. “Kids are in crisis and many times youth workers are in the middle of the crisis - ill-prepared to handle what faces them. Jim and Rich have drawn on years of experience with kids in crisis to offer practical and usable resources for youth workers dealing with troubled students. In my 30 years of youth ministry, I have wished for a resource like The Youth Worker’s Guide to Helping Teenagers in Crisis.”
Dr. Charles N. Neder
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