Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Youth, Family, and Culture)

Author - Chap Clark ... [Goo?] [Posters]

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1) Paperback Book Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Youth, Family, and Culture) by Baker Book House. This is simply the best book on adolescents out there. If you are working with adolescents in any capacity, or have one, you should read this book to understand the world that they are living in. Once you understand the cultural situation they are in, you´ll be more equipped to care, love, and minister to them. Definitely worth the read.¤

2) Paperback Book Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Youth, Family, and Culture) by Baker Book House. Awesome book! However, I find it hard to follow his writing at times because he´s using a lot of technical terms. I think this book is very relevant to our teens today and you would be wise to take time to read it.¤

3) Paperback Book Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Youth, Family, and Culture) by Baker Book House. This book was recommended to me by my youth pastor, and as a senior pastor I´m glad I´ve read it. If you thought you understood youth and their lifestyles, then think again. Chap Clark reveals that the youth of today are greatly different than the youth of twenty or even ten years ago. Combining hard sociological data with a Christian compassion for young people, the author enlightens anyone who comes into contact with teenagers. I strongly recommend this book to any parent, pastor, church leader, or other adult who is working with teens. We can´t truly minister to younger generations until we´ve taken the time and effort to understand their unique needs and wants. Clark does an excellent job here of summarizing them both.¤

4) Paperback Book Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Youth, Family, and Culture) by Baker Book House. Very sobering look at the state of adolecent thinking. Well researched and informative. A must read!!¤

5) Paperback Book Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Youth, Family, and Culture) by Baker Book House. I bought this book expecting to get a healthy dose of sociology along with some seriouse theological reflection on the sociological data. I was wrong. In my opinion this book was too heavy on sociology and too lite on theology. If Clark would´ve spent more time connecting the sociological conclusions to theological implications, the book would´ve been a gem.¤

6) Paperback Book Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Youth, Family, and Culture) by Baker Book House. What do teenagers really think about adults? If you think you know the answer, you may be in for a surprise. According to Chap Clark, today´s adolescents have largely been abandoned by adults and left to fend for themselves in an uncertain world. As a result, teens have created their own world to serve as a shield against uncaring adults. Based on six months of participant-observer research at a California public school, this book offers a somewhat troubling but insightful snapshot of adolescent life. It will surprise and enlighten parents, youth workers, counselors, pastors, and all who want to better understand the hearts and minds of America´s adolescents.¤

7) Paperback Book Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Youth, Family, and Culture) by Baker Book House. If parents, educators, and youth workers were to read only one book about helping adolescence—this would be the one. Chap Clark managed to get inside the world of US teenagers and reveal the depths of angst, pressure and loneliness they feel. Hurt is a illuminates the under layers of teen culture, the places where adolescents are most honest and vulnerable, only to discover that today’s youth are indeed a tribe apart—and it is the adults who have isolated them.

Most of Clark’s research took place in Crescenta Valley High School in north Los Angeles County. One might wonder how a middle-aged dad could get inside the heads of so many teens from so many walks of life. He did this by doing what most adults are unwilling to do—spending time with teens and asking questions, by showing a genuine curiosity in their world and a willingness to hear their answers without judgment. The results are riveting.

Ultimately this is an indictment of our increasingly adult-centric society that is more invested in adult interests than the individual needs of our youth. By the time adolescents enter high school, most have been subjected to at least a decade of adult-driven agendas. He slams coaches who are so invested in winning at youth sports that they leave mediocre athletes on the bench or pull them off the team. He points to the once playful dance classes that somehow morph into intensive dance training and regional competitions. Or the high school junior who faces a nightly four-to-five hour marathon of homework only to rise at 7 a.m. for morning band practice before AP calculus. We reward youth for their adult-pleasing achievements, failing to consider the price of isolation, stress and fear of failing that this generates.

Clark (the author of Daughters & Dads 1576830489 and From Father to Son 1576832945) concludes the book with solid recommendations for turning this tide. Unfortunately, he often defends his research and recommendations, as if a critical academic was looking over his shoulder. The truth is this book belongs less to the world of academics and more appropriately in the hands of anyone who lives with or directly works with teenagers. --Gail Hudson¤

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