Michael Ungar: 12 books
Change Your World
The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
How much do grit and positive thinking matter when the world around you is starved of support and opportunity?
Finally, a book that explains why self-help gurus and motivational speakers mostly fail to deliver, and what really produces results.
“Michael Ungar’s Change Your World...
Too Safe For Their Own Good
How risk and responsibility help teens thrive
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this well thought-out and lucid book, Michael Ungar makes a compelling case for us to stop bubble-wrapping our children. Healthy risk-taking is a crucial component of identity formation and Ungar provides a much-needed guide for parents looking to find the right balance between healthy risks and...
I Still Love You
Nine Things Troubled Kids Need from Their Parents
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Therapist Michael Ungar uses the struggles of three families and his own history to help the parents of difficult children.
Family therapist Michael Ungar, internationally renowned for his work on child and youth resilience, takes us into his world each Wednesday, when he meets with three families...
The We Generation
Raising Socially Responsible Kids
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Wouldn't it be nice if your child committed herself to doing a simple act of kindness every day? As today's culture seems to grow more self-centered and obsessed with me,” Dr. Michael Ungar refreshingly points the way to raising we” thinkers. Perhaps most inspiring about Ungar's findings:...
We Generation
Raising Socially Responsible Kids
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Engaging and timely, this book is an invaluable resource for parents who want their children to become socially responsible and globally aware adults
As youth culture seems to grow more self-centred and obsessed with "Me,"Michael Ungar shows us that, in fact, children today are as...
Too Safe for Their Own Good
How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Canadian children are safer now than at any other time in history. So why are we so fearful for them? When they’re young, we drive them to playdates, fill up their time with organized activity, and cocoon them from every imaginable peril. We think we are doing what’s best for them. But as they...
Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs
20 Skills to Build Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs provides a detailed description of techniques and rich stories of how social workers, psychologists, counselors, and child and youth care workers can help young people become more resilient. With ample case studies and fascinating explanations of...
by Michael Ungar
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Joey is not your typical social worker. He burns down houses to solve bureaucratic deadlocks, steals to get his clients bigger welfare cheques, and lies if it will help prevent his supervisor from intruding in the lives of his young clients.
Joey knows all too well what if feels like to be...
Playing at Being Bad
The Hidden Resilience of Troubled Teens
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
“Our most troubled youth are far more resilient and healthy than we are ready to admit. If we take the time to listen very closely to our children speak about their experiences beyond our front doors, we hear an entirely different story about their lives than the one we adults tell.”
Unlike...
by Dr. Michael Ungar
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
This resource offers counseling strategies to promote adolescents' overlooked strengths and create healthy alternatives to problem behaviors such as bullying, drug use, violence, and promiscuity.
by Linda Liebenberg, Michael Ungar
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2008
Mental health specialists and researchers contend that the development of resilience in youth is facilitated at several levels. Relational, cultural, individual, and governmental factors all have a strong influence over the mental well being of young people. Resilience in Action looks at youth interventions...
The Criminalization of States
The Relationship between States and Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.