Dealing with Tough Times - Teaching Guide

by Marilyn Kielbasa

Dealing with Tough Times provides young people with the understanding and skills required to deal with the difficult experiences of life associated with this age group. This course centers on loneliness, rejection, stress, and loss, and it suggests specific approaches to help young people learn to cope.

These skills are so lacking in the current youth culture.  Without knowing how to deal with tough times, and there are many, too many young people turn to self-medicating substances, destructive behaviour and much too often suicide.

The active-learning strategies in the teaching guide for Dealing with Tough Times are designed to support the companion student booklet. It is also a valuable aid on its own as a topical session planner, conversation starter and much more.