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Our runaway and homeless youth : a guide to understanding / Natasha Slesnick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slesnick, Natasha, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homeless youth--United States.
- Homeless youth.
- Parent and teenager--United States.
- Parent and teenager.
- Runaway teenagers--United States.
- Runaway teenagers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (168 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The stories of four among hundreds of runaway youths treated in Slesnick's program illustrate points in this volume, which offers a summary of the information known about runaway and homeless children and teenagers. In addition to describing the breadth of this problem, this book explains different types of runaway and homeless youths, and why they leave home by choice or are asked to leave. Slesnick also explains some of the factors common to these children and their families, as well as what happens to the youths when they leave home. Direction and support are provided for parents from this
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why a Book on Runaway and Homeless Youth?; I: ABOUT RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH; II: TO THE PARENTS; Conclusion: And What Now?; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-152) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400694578
- 9786612408823
- 9781282408821
- 1282408828
- 9780313057540
- 0313057540
- OCLC:
- 547348996
- Publisher Number:
- 10.5040/9798400694578
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