Feeling Like Crap: Young People and the Meaning of Self-esteem

Author(s) : Nick Luxmoore

Feeling Like Crap: Young People and the Meaning of Self-esteem

Book Details

  • Publisher : Jessica Kingsley
  • Published : 2008
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Category :
    Child and Adolescent Studies
  • Catalogue No : 27617
  • ISBN 13 : 9781843106821
  • ISBN 10 : 1843106825
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We use the word all the time, but what exactly is 'self-esteem', and how do young people develop it? "Feeling Like Crap" explores how a young person's self is constructed, and what might help that self to feel more valued and confident. Through accounts of his individual and group work with six young people, Nick Luxmoore demonstrates how listening to, engaging with and being respectful of young people can provide the support they need to help them repair their sense of self and offer them new possibilities and directions in life. When Grace was three, her parents split up and she went to live with her father while her sister stayed with their mother. Allie has slipped behind with her school work since falling out with her best friend, and any positive feelings about himself that Conor may have dared to develop have been beaten out of him by his father. This compassionate and thought-provoking book will be an invaluable resource for counsellors, teachers, youth workers, and anyone else working to help young people with self-esteem issues.

About the Author(s)

Nick Luxmoore is a school counsellor, trainer, teacher, youth worker and UKCP registered Psychodrama psychotherapist. He has over 35 years' experience of work with young people and with the professionals who support them. He is the author of several books including School Counsellors Working with Young People and Staff: A Whole-School Approach, Working with Anger and Young People and Feeling Like Crap: Young People and the Meaning of Self-Esteem. He currently works as the Counsellor at King Alfred's Academy, Wantage, UK.

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