Working with Adolescents

Julie Anne Laser, PhD, MSW, LCSW, is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver, where she coordinates the high-risk youth track of the MSW curriculum as well as teaches in the clinical and research series. Dr. Laser’s research focus is on adolescent resiliency, particularly the relevance of specific ecological and internal protective and risk factors by culture and gender. She recently completed large studies of resilience in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Senegalese youth and homeless teens in the United States. Projects are under way to evaluate resilience in Latin American youth. Dr. Laser has more than 20 years of clinical social work experience and has worked in Mexico, Switzerland, Japan, and China, as well as a variety of urban and rural settings in the United States. She is particularly interested in school social work. Nicole Nicotera, PhD, MSW, LICSW, is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver, where she teaches clinical practice theories and skills and a doctoral research course in qualitative analysis. Dr. Nicotera’s research and scholarship focus on measuring civic development in children, interventions to enhance civic leadership and positive youth development, the influences of neighborhood collective socialization and social cohesion on young people, and issues of unearned privilege and oppression in social work practice, education, and research. Her recent research with young people in public housing neighborhoods examines civic engagement and the capacity of youth to act as agents of neighborhood change. As a clinical social worker, Dr. Nicotera worked with children, youth, and families in a community mental health center, where she used art, play, and sand-tray therapies, as well as other intervention modalities. She also has extensive school social work experience with seriously emotionally and behaviorally challenged children.

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Foreword, Jeffrey M. Jenson
_x000D_ I. Theoretical Framework _x000D_ 1. Challenges in Clinical Work with Adolescents: An Overview _x000D_ 2. The Push–Pull of Adolescent Development _x000D_ 3. Resilience in Adolescence _x000D_ II. The Adolescent in Context _x000D_ 4. Internal Assets and Individual Attributes Associated with Healthy Adolescent Outcomes, Tom Luster _x000D_ 5. The Family Environment, Douglas Davies _x000D_ 6. The School Environment _x000D_ 7. The Neighborhood Environment _x000D_ 8. Media Influences _x000D_ 9. Assessment and Intervention at Each Ecological Level: A Case Illustration, Julie Anne Laser, Nicole Nicotera, Tom Luster and Douglas Davies _x000D_ III. Clinical Interventions for Problematic Adolescent Behavior _x000D_ 10. Substance Abuse, Julie Anne Laser, George Stuart Leibowitz, and Nicole Nicotera _x000D_ 11. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Development _x000D_ 12. Mental Health Issues: Depressive Symptoms, Personality Disorders, Suicidal Behavior, and Self-Injurious Behavior _x000D_ 13. Sexual Behaviors, Sexually Transmitted Diseases including HIV/AIDS, and Pregnancy, Julie Anne Laser, Nicole Nicotera, and Shannon Sainer _x000D_ 14. Delinquency, Julie Anne Laser, George Stuart Leibowitz, and Nicole Nicotera _x000D_ 15. The Joys of Working with Adolescents _x000D_