Using literature to help troubled teenagers cope with health issues
By: edited by Cynthia Ann Bowman ; foreword by Jan Cheripko.
Contributors: Bowman, Cynthia Ann, 1958-
Series: The Greenwood Press "Using literature to help troubled teenagers" series
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Bibliotherapy for teenagers.; Teenagers -- Diseases.; Young adult literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Bibliotherapy -- Adolescence.; Adolescent Psychology.
Description: "The traditional illnesses and high risk behaviors of today's adolescents have become interwoven due to the multitude of physical, social, and emotional changes young people experience. Through appropriate literature, adolescents can find the power to heal and renew their lives. This reference resource provides a link for teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults to those novels that can help adolescents struggling with health issues.

Educators and therapists explore novels where common health issues are addressed in ways to captivate teens. Using fictional characters, these experts provide guidance on encouraging adolescents to cope while improving their reading and writing skills."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Freak the mighty : birth defects and disability in a literary friendship / Kathleen Carico, Paula Stanley; title: Izzy, Willy-nilly : issues of disability for adolescents and their families / Cynthia Ann Bowman, Phyllis A. Gordon; title: Bridging the alone space : fiction for young people with sensory impairments / Kim McCollum-Clark, Kelsey Backels; title: Tracking adolescent responses to cancer / Jim Powell, Nancy Lafferty; title: Normalcy was all she wanted : learning to live with diabetes / Sue F. Johnson, Claire J. Dandeneau; title: Focusing our attention: reading about ADHD / A. Lee Williams, Albert Scott; title: The friends : promoting adolescent mental health through awareness and literature / Karen L. Ford, Charlene Alexander; title: The craziness within and the craziness without : depression and anger in Ironman / John Noell Moore, David William Hartman; title: Dying to be thin : eating disorders in young adult literature / Patricia P. Kelly, Marshall D. Tessnear; title: Reading anorexia in Nell's quilt / Nancy Mellin McCracken, Jan Carli; title: HIV/AIDS : what you don't know can kill you / Nancy Prosenjak, Laura Sullivan, Diane Hartman; title: Conquering alcoholism in Imitate the tiger / Margaret Ford, Danna Bozick; title: Going backwards : a family systems view of Alzheimer's / Joyce Graham, Scott Johnson.