Despair Turned Into Rage: Understanding and Helping Abused, Neglected, and Abandoned Youth

• NCJ Number: 180350
• Author(s): Paul Lavin; Cynthia Park
• Date Published: 1999
• Length: 120 pages
• Sale Source: Child Welfare League of America, Inc.
• Publication Format: Book (Softbound)
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This book asserts that young people's antisocial behavior has its roots in the despair that they feel about being abused, neglected or abandoned by their parents or other caregivers.

Abstract

The book emphasizes and focuses on the early recognition and treatment of childhood depression, claiming that it is responsible for much of the volatile behavior of abused, neglected, and abandoned youth. It presents interviewing techniques and interventions, using actual case material, that can be understood and applied by lay volunteers. The book is divided into eight chapters: (1) Sifting Through the Diagnostic Quagmire; (2) Identifying Depression and Its Conversion to Rage; (3) Getting to Know the Child; (4) Conducting the Interview; (5) Helping Interventions That Work (including the Three Wishes, Living Alone on an Island and Sentence Completion); (6) Distorted Thinking; (7) Changing Antisocial Behavior to Prosocial Behavior; and (8) Conclusion. Notes, references