Diana-Lea Baranovich guides adults in helping emotionally hurt teenagers transition into young adulthood
Diana–Lea Baranovich realized that many people who so compassionately try to help hurt teenagers do not understand them. Several years of fostering, mentoring and counseling hurt teenagers and teaching others who want to work with these hurt teenagers inspired Baranovich in writing “Understanding and Mentoring the Hurt Teenager: When Unconditional Love is Never Enough” (published by Partridge Singapore).
The book serves as a guide for all compassionate adults who truly want to help emotionally hurt teenagers transition into young adulthood as a productive citizen who contributes to society. It communicates that hurt teenagers come from all walks of life. They are not only from low-socioeconomic homes where they are being neglected, abused, and/or lack personal resources; many hurt teenagers can be found in affluent homes. With discussion questions included, this guide assists adults to become a positive support system to help teens break the cycle of generational poverty, abuse, and neglect and journey more positively into adulthood.
“In order to help hurt teenagers, one must first understand their plight in life and the reasons behind why they often act and react in very antagonistic ways to those trying to help them,” Baranovich says. “This book is written in a very straightforward, down to earth manner, sprinkled with a touch a humor along the way.”
Geared toward teachers, probation officers, counselors, welfare workers, leaders of religious groups, community workers, and parents who care for or mentor hurt teenagers, “Understanding and Mentoring the Hurt Teenager” breaks the 10 myths surrounding the lives of hurt teenagers. It hopes to help readers understand the teens’ plight as it shows what makes the hurt teenager think, act, react and relate to others the way they do.
“Understanding and Mentoring the Hurt Teenager”
By Diana–Lea Baranovich
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 238 pages | ISBN 9781482882063
Softcover | 6x 9in | 238 pages | ISBN 9781482881530
E-Book | 238 pages | ISBN 9781482881547
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
Diana-Lea Baranovich has spent the last three decades as a teacher, school counselor, school psychologist, curriculum coordinator, diagnostician and private practitioner for students from nursery school to the postgraduate level in both America and Asia. However, the four years she served as a foster care provider for Texas Children’s Protective Services was the best and most important education she ever received. Baranovich lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and works as a full-time associate professor and research supervisor at the University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. She also runs a private psychotherapy practice. This is her second book.
Partridge Singapore, an imprint in partnership with Penguin Random House Singapore, aims to help writers in Singapore, Malaysia, and the rest of Southeast Asia become published authors. Partridge Singapore gives authors in the region direct access to a comprehensive range of expert publishing services that meet industry standards but are more accessible to the market. For more information or to publish a book, visit www.partridgepublishing.com/singapore or call 800 101 2657 (Singapore) or 1 800 81 7340 (Malaysia). For the latest, follow @PartridgeSG on Twitter.