You want to help them.
They don’t want to be helped.
How on earth are you going to reach them?
What I Need From You: the essential guide to reaching troubled teens
is based on Sam Ross’ years of listening to, researching and working with the most challenging, disengaged young people. Written in the voice of those teens and also in hers, it will change the way you work with young people.
This is what our troubled teens need you to read.
This is what they need you to hear.
This is what they need from you.
Read this and change lives.
The buzz on Sam Ross:
Ideas
Juvenile Probation Counselor
Juvenile Probation Counselor
Helps me explain teen behaviour to parents
High School VET Coordinator and Careers Counsellor
High School VET Coordinator and Careers Counsellor
Fantastic reading
Parent and Volunteer worker with teenagers
Parent and Volunteer worker with teenagers
Helps me relate
Mother of 18 year old
Mother of 18 year old
Ideas how to approach situations and behavior differently
Grandparent
Grandparent
Supports the importance of hearing what teenagers have to say
Safeguarding Trainer
Safeguarding Trainer
Shows the importance of listening to young people
Homelessness Support Worker (16-25 year olds)
Homelessness Support Worker (16-25 year olds)
Helps me better understand issues young people face
Parent and Sexual Health Nurse
Parent and Sexual Health Nurse
Innovative ideas and resources
Behaviour Support in Secondary School
Behaviour Support in Secondary School
Helping them find their answers
Young People's Nurse
Young People's Nurse
There’s hope for our teens
Teacher in a Pupil Referral Unit
Teacher in a Pupil Referral Unit
One of the best publications
Restorative Justice Co-ordinator
Restorative Justice Co-ordinator
Amazing resource
Crisis Intervention Team Lead
Crisis Intervention Team Lead
Insight and perspective
Teacher
Teacher
I’ve learnt so much!
Youth Worker
Youth Worker
I’m not alone
Parent of two teens
Parent of two teens
Sam Ross is a Teen Behavioural Consultant and founder of this popular ‘Teenage Whisperer’ blog. Really understanding teens is the beginning, middle and end of her work. With experience in youth justice, education and in private practice, she helps professionals and parents reach troubled teens through her website, books and public speaking engagements.
Chapters in What I Need From You include:
Compassion: My consumption, your compassion
Determination: I promise you… I will try and piss you off
Curiosity: Caring with curiosity- getting to the heart of relationship-based working
Positivity: Show me I’m not completely crap
Patience: Please give us our time
Laughter: Shining light in my darkness
Practicality: Don’t just talk… do
Boundaries: Do you care enough to stop me?
Reality checks: Don’t talk about me… I’m normal
Guidance: By my side
Needs Identification: My sticky tape- you can’t take away without replacing
Forward Thinking: Don’t let me define myself by my past
Humility: Mutual learning, mutual respect
Courage: Did you knock on my door
Non-Judgementalism: Start with me where I am
Creativity: Creative thinking, creative solutions, creative change
Serious Help: Are we a joke? Liked but a liability?
Collaboration: Strength in numbers
Hope-filled Vision: When working with some teens seems pointless