You Think I'm Evil: Practical Strategies for Working with Rebellious and Aggressive Adolescents

by David Taransaud

According to the children's charity Barnados (report 2008), more than half the UK population believe that teenagers behave like monsters, using words like feral, animal and vermin in referring to young people. Even if they don't share this belief, therapists, teachers, youth workers and foster parents still struggle to work effectively with challenging adolescents on a daily basis. Jargon free and engaging, You think I'm Evil. takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the hidden inner territory of troubled and troubling adolescents. It offers new perspectives to help professionals reframe our ideas about what is driving their behaviour and attitude. In recognising the limitations of everyday language, the book suggests new forms of creative expression, drawn from teenage preferences, allowing both adult and adolescent to safely explore the young person's inner and outer world together.

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2011

About the author

David Taransaud is a psychotherapeutic counsellor for adolescents. He is the author of several books on working with traumatised children and young people, including Sad Belly: Helping Children of Depressed Parents Build Resilience and You Think I’m Evil: Practical Strategies for Working with Aggressive and Rebellious Adolescents .
David also works as a foreign consultant with Alleviate Addiction Suffering in Karachi and travelled to north Uganda where he set up an Art Therapy service in an orphanage for former child soldiers and young people affected by conflict and trauma. His travel journal can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AmdJ...