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Teenage Guys: Exploring Issues Adolescent Guys Face and Strategies to Help Them (Youth Specialties (Paperback)) - Softcover

Gerali, Steven

 
9780310269854: Teenage Guys: Exploring Issues Adolescent Guys Face and Strategies to Help Them (Youth Specialties (Paperback))
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ISBN 10: 0310269857 ISBN 13: 9780310269854
Verlag: Zondervan, 2006

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Youth workers need to fully understand the inner workings and development of adolescents in order to really meet their needs. In Teenage Guys, Dr. Steve Gerali presents the stages of development that adolescent guys go through, providing stories from his own experiences in ministry and counseling as well as practical research findings to equip youth workers (both male and female) to more effectively minister to teenage guys. With advice from counselors and veteran youth workers, you’ll find helpful suggestions on how to minister to teenage guys and their families. Each chapter includes discussion questions to help you and other youth workers process the issues your own students face and learn how you can help them and mentor them through this tumultuous time. In addition to concepts like mentoring and rites of passage, Dr. Gerali also walks readers through the seven areas of development young guys go through. You’ll understand more about: Cognitive development • Identity formation • Social development • Emotional development • Physiological development • Sexological maturation • Faith formation

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Dr. Steven Gerali is a speaker, professor, and clinical counselor recognized around the world as an expert in the field of adolescence and youth ministry. He is the author of several books about the issues of adolescence. Before becoming a professor of youth ministry, Steve served for more than 25 years as pastor of student ministries at churches in Arizona and Illinois in the United States. He is the father of two grown daughters and he currently lives in southern California with his wife, Jan.

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Youth workers need to fully understand the inner workings and development of adolescents in order to really meet their needs. In Teenage Guys, Dr. Steve Gerali presents the stages of development that adolescent guys go through, providing stories from his own experiences in ministry and counseling as well as practical research findings to equip youth workers (both male and female) to more effectively minister to teenage guys.

With advice from counselors and veteran youth workers, you'll find helpful suggestions on how to minister to teenage guys and their families. Each chapter includes discussion questions to help you and other youth workers process the issues your own students face and learn how you can help them and mentor them through this tumultuous time. In addition to concepts like mentoring and rites of passage, Dr. Gerali also walks readers through the seven areas of development young guys go through.
You'll understand more about:

Cognitive development • Identity formation •
Social development • Emotional development •
Physiological development • Sexological maturation • Faith formation

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Teenage Guys: Exploring Issues Adolescent Guys Face and Strategies to Help ThemCopyright 2006 by Steve GeraliYouth Specialties products, 300 South Pierce Street, El Cajon, CA 92020 are published byZondervan, 5300 Patterson Avenue Southeast, Grand Rapids, MI 49530.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataGerali, Steve.Teenage guys : exploring the issues that adolescent guys face and the strategies to help them/ by Steve Gerali.p. cm.Includes bibliographical references.ISBN-10: 0-310-26985-7 (pbk.)ISBN-13: 978-0-310-26985-4 (pbk.)1. Church work with teenagers. 2. Teenage boys. 3. Adolescence. I. Title.BV4447.G46 2006259'.23--dc222006000896Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible: NewInternational Version (North American Edition). Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by InternationalBible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted in any form or by any means---electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, orany other (except for brief quotations in printed reviews) without the prior permission of thepublisher.Web site addresses listed in this book were current at the time of publication. Please contactYouth Specialties via e-mail (YS@YouthSpecialties.com) to report URLs that are no longeroperational and replacement URLs if available.Creative Team: Dave Urbanski, Laura Gross, Heather Haggerty, Janie Wilkerson,and Mark NovelliCover design by BurnkitPrinted in the United States06 07 08 09 10 * 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1SECTION ONEMALE ADOLESCENCEI'd just finished speaking to parents of teenagers at achurch-sponsored seminar when a very determined,seemingly panic-stricken mother hightailed it downthe aisle to reach me before anyone else could. Iknew she was stressed because she nearly plowedover some people on the way. When she reached myside, she looked fatigued and her voice was manydecibels louder than normal. (I wondered for a momentif she thought I was deaf.) But I soon discoveredthis dear woman's plight.'I need help!' she blurted before disclosing tome that she was the mother of four boys---ages twoto 13. (It immediately began to make sense to me.)She described how her oldest son used to be a sweetlittle boy, but now he was changing. She drew parallelsbetween him and her two-year-old, describingthe many similarities between a child in the terribletwos and a child in the---her term for it---'terribleteens.' She bombarded me with more questions thanI could answer. Finally, she said, 'I don't understandhow teenage boys work; I wish my boy came with auser's manual.''So you need to know how your teenage boy iswired?' I asked jokingly.She quickly affirmed my observation and addedthat she was concerned that his wiring may be malfunctioning.This mother wanted her teenage son'suser's manual to include an explanation of his wiring,tips on how to detect if and when the wiring goesbad, and instructions for how to rewire her son, ifpossible.Guys are wired differently than girls from the beginning.But when adolescence sets in, it can appearas though their wiring has gone bad. In reality, it maybe just a normal phase of growth. While they don'tcome with user's manuals, these days we have a betterunderstanding of what makes a guy uniquely masculineand how to help him navigate through the stormand stress of adolescence and on into manhood.STORM AND STRESS OF MALE ADOLESCENCEThe science of adolescence is a relatively new phenomenon,but adolescence has been recognized---althoughmisunderstood---throughout history. Theearliest records we have about adolescent boys areobservations Aristotle made about the young adolescentmales who were his proteges. He saw themas egocentric, idealistic, passionate, quick-temperedand easily angered, impulsive, overly optimistic,gullible, lacking self-control, and driven by theirsexual desires. He also observed the strong, intimateconnectedness---or brotherhood---they formed withtheir friends, which he noted was unlike any otherperiod in a man's life (throughout childhood or maturity).He recognized that they were developing cognitivelyand entering into more advanced thinkingstages. This led him to say, 'They think they knoweverything.'1 Aristotle believed that adolescent boys'carry everything too far: they love to excess, theyhate to excess---and so in all else.'2He wasn't too far off the mark in his observations.And they shaped Aristotle's instructional approachwith adolescent males---one that fostered ethical andmoral choice and self-determination. But while thesedistinctives were recognized, it wasn't until the IndustrialAge that adolescence emerged as a distinct,formative life stage.In 1902 developmental psychologist G. StanleyHall published Adolescence: Its Psychology and ItsRelations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology,Sex, Crime, Religion and Education. Hall becameknown as the 'father of adolescence' because heidentified the developmental issues that create a transitionfrom childhood to adulthood. He recognizedand popularized adolescence as a formative stage inthe developmental life span of an individual fromages 11 to 22.Prior to Hall's pioneering work, the world viewedpeople as children until they could sire children oftheir own. The physiological phenomenon of pubertyimmediately made a boy a man. Hall theorizedthat the physical factors of puberty started a seriesof physical, psychological, and sociological changesthat distinguished passive, effeminate boys into moreassertive men. While not always evidenced outwardly,this internal aggressive shift in the makeup ofboys into men was what Hall identified as 'Sturmund Drang' or storm and stress.The onset of this transitioning period was markedby puberty. (As a basic point of clarification, pubertyis not adolescence. It's the event that marks the beginningof the developmental life span called 'adolescence.')In Hall's era, puberty often began aroundthe age of 11. Hall believed adolescence ended withthe autonomy of the individual. This was marked byadult-like accomplishments such as marriage, startinga family, financial independence, acts of braveryand/or leadership, pursuing a career, and so on. Hallbelieved this most likely occurred around the age of22 or 23. When a boy successfully navigated throughthe storm and stress of adolescence, he emerged atthe other end a stable, autonomous man.If we applied Hall's lines of definition to adolescencetoday, we'd have some problems. Puberty isstarting earlier for most guys. They still begin pubertylater than girls do, but most guys begin physicallychanging at age nine or 10. And at the otherend, at ages 22 and 23, most people aren't ready orable to be financially autonomous yet (due to variousPOSSIBLECONTRIBUTINGFACTORS TO THEEARLIER ONSET OFPUBERTY IN GUYS INTHE 21ST CENTURY:View 1: We are healthierthan the generations beforeus. We are more aware ofdiet and exercise and havemade our children moreaware of the same issues.Medical advancements havealso put us in a more healthyposition. This may allow thehuman body to develop at aless hindered rate, makingpuberty come earlier than inpast eras.View 2: While we may behealthier, we scientificallyalter our food to preserveit longer or enhance itsgrowth and qualities.Yet these chemicals mayaffect the onset of puberty,accelerating it at anunhealthy rate before itsintended time.

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Verlag
Zondervan
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0310269857
ISBN 13 
9780310269854
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Anzahl der Seiten
320
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