Help for the Hard Times : Getting Through Loss

Earl Hipp addresses loss and discusses young people's experiences to help you provide students with tools to grieve and ways to keep their losses from becoming too overwhelming.

Earl Hipp addresses loss from the perspective of the heart. He discusses young people's experiences with loss and helps them figure out ways to continue functioning after loss. You will provide students with tools to grieve and ways to keep their losses from becoming too overwhelming. This book, along with the Caring Circle: A Facilitator's Guide to Support Groups and Thirty-Eight Great Handouts are all part of a complete curriculum to use in developing broad-based support groups for young people ages 12 and older. Other books that can be purchased that are part of this program to help teens in specific areas are:-Feed Your Head (Self-Esteem) -Fighting Invisible Tigers (Stress) -Understanding the Human Volcano (Violence)

Earl has a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, a Master's Degree in Applied Psycho-physiology, and a background as a clinical psychotherapist. Earl has written seven books about and for adolescents, which together have sold more than a quarter of a million copies. His books are on themes such as coping with the stresses in kid's lives, moving through grief and loss, and how adults can offer support groups for teens. Earl's latest book, Man-Making - Men Helping Boys on Their Journey to Manhood, is written for men, and of interest to anyone interested in calling men into service to young males. As a professional speaker, Earl has spent the last 18 years delivering educational and motivational programs on the topics of his books and business themes to a wide variety of audiences, including corporations, associations, teachers, parents, and youth-serving professionals. Today he is using these motivational skills with conference audiences, at community meetings, and in organizational training. Author Home Page: http://man-making.com