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How to Help Your Hurting Friend: Advice For Showing Love When Things Get Tough (invert)

How to Help Your Hurting Friend: Advice For Showing Love When Things Get Tough (invert)

Published in
2004
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Description

No issue is taboo for How to Help Your Hurting Friend, a frank and valuable handbook of practical advice for today's teenage girls.Previously published as Help! My Friend Is Hurting Susie Shellenberger—author and teen advocate—addresses the most vital, personal, and life-challenging issues in young women's lives. Presented in handbook form, this biblically-based, relevant, and contemporary-focused book empowers girls to salvage and maybe even save the lives of friends. She addresses such things as self-cutting and sexual abuse in a no-nonsense way and no advice is ever vague. This classic book for teenage girls distills the wisdom of the Bible and combines it with the wisdom of many experienced and anointed counselors.How to Help Your Hurting Friend:This is a reissued edition of Help! My Friend Is Hurting.Has a new format including sidebars and intriguing illustrations.Is a great resource for teens, young adults, and parents alikeIncludes commentary on today's challenges, advice, and a section of letters to the author with helpful, relevant responses.
Age
12-13
Text complexity
proficient
Length
176 pages
Book in series
#2

Why to read

  • Empathy Development: Reading 'How to Help Your Hurting Friend' can deepen your understanding of the challenges others face, fostering empathy and compassion, which are essential traits for building strong, supportive relationships.
  • Practical Guidance: The book offers actionable advice and specific strategies for providing support to friends in need, making it a valuable resource for anyone looking to be a better confidant and ally during tough times.
  • Emotional Intelligence: By exploring the nuances of emotional support, the book can help readers improve their emotional intelligence, enabling them to respond more effectively to the emotional needs of others.
  • Spiritual Insight: As Susie Shellenberger incorporates a Christian perspective, readers seeking faith-based approaches to helping friends will find spiritual insights and biblical principles that can guide them in offering comfort and love.