Ruth Herman Wells, M.S.

“A Child's Guide to Surviving in a Troubled Family (Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth)” (1993)

This lesson book offers teachers, counselors, social workers, parents and foster parents interventions to help troubled youth and children cope with serious family problems like abuse, alcoholism, domestic violence, neglect, etc. Lessons include: "Work It Out Instead of Act It Out," "I'm Too Scared to Talk About Abuse," and "Abuse in Never Your Fault." Perfect for individual counseling, group counseling, classrooms and offices, this book is packed with the newest and best strategies that exist to help troubled youth and children survive even difficult problems like divorce, substance abuse, sexual abuse and more. Many of the 20 lessons include engaging handouts that are full of cartoons.