Rent I Want To Be Me But I Don't Know Who I Am: A Guidebook for Teens and Young Adults (Volume 1)

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I WANT TO BE ME BUT I DON’T KNOW WHO I AM A Guide Book for Teens and Young Adults "I Want To Be Me But I Don’t Know Who I Am" were the words uttered by a young teen who was struggling with choices. Our teens and young adults are having a difficult time finding their path to adulthood. This book introduces a sound approach to helping them, developed by a French doctor, Françoise Dolto, who understood that children of all ages can become aware of themselves, choose behaviors that work for them, take responsibility for their actions, feel confident about their goals, empowered as individuals, and respected as autonomous persons. Doctor Françoise Dolto insisted that even infants need an authentic relationship with caretakers, that they need to hear the truth of their situation, even if it is difficult. She believed and demonstrated that even infants have the power and the will to grow, to be healthy, to assume responsibility for their life. With this approach, she enjoined adolescents to find the resources they had within themselves to become their own best leaders, while recognizing that they need support and encouragement to manage their growth into adults. In her clinical work and in this volume, Doctor Boskovitz engages adolescent readers in a gentle but very direct and straight-forward, authentic manner, as she guides them towards awareness of their own power to manage their behavior and make healthy choices that move them towards autonomy and independence. This book’s author endorses the right of every human being to respect and to seeking a good life; it encourages adolescents to seek to attain personal goals that they find worthy of their efforts. They are promised that if they work their way through the guide book, they can learn to understand themselves and their behavior, discover their strengths, develop new life skills, identify and choose their direction, get help and overcome obstacles. To help in this developmental work, Dr. Boskovitz designed the Identity and Behavior Scales, to promote greater self-awareness in adolescents. These measures can also assist in identifying their wishes for the future, and set short and long-term goals. Readers are also guided through their decision-making process with the carefully demonstrated use of Decision Trees. They can use the trees to review previous decisions and their outcomes and to evaluate their current challenges and choices. The decision trees are also extremely useful in making lifestyle decisions and anticipating their compatibility with the teens and young adults’ needs and goals. I Want To Be Me But I Don’t Know Who I Am is an easy read, even for those who don’t like to read! The larger print is welcoming and the book is dotted with numerous inserts to illustrate points being made. The book is written at the 7th grade level and addresses all teens and young adults, regardless of their level of sophistication.

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