Charting Your Course - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0268209987 ISBN 13: 9780268209988

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2024

Synopsis

Suited for use by classrooms, groups, and individuals, Charting Your Course: A Life-Long Guide to Health and Compassion is a positive answer to the negative pressures that young people face today: from depression, to substance abuse, to lack of confidence or direction. In the first half of of the book, Sally Coleman and David S. Anderson spell out seven areas of healthy living―attitude, personal values, holistic health, relationships, community, the natural world, and service to others―and articulate seven corresponding principles aimed at helping people design a life that will allow them to flourish.

In the second half, dozens of people, including Elie Wiesel, Joe Paterno, Matthew Fox, Father Theodore Hesburgh, and Jane Alexander, answer the question: "If you could write only one letter to young people before you die, what legacy would you leave them?" Their answers address issues ranging from substance abuse to religion, from parenting to sexual orientation. Finally, the editors provide the reader with workbook pages aimed at developing his or her own plan for charting a unique and healthy course through life.

About this title

About the Authors

Sally Coleman was a staff counselor in the University of Notre Dame's counseling center and the author of several books on current issues.

David S. Anderson is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Health, George Mason University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0268209987
• ISBN 13: 9780268209988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Coleman Sally, Anderson David S.