Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Family Issues

JOAN F. KAYWELL is an award-winning Associate Professor of English Education at the University of South Florida. She is President-elect of ALAN, the Adolescent Literature Column Editor for English Journal, and a reviewer for The New Advocate. She is the author of Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics, Volumes One, Two and Three and Adolescents At Risk: A Guide to Fiction and Nonfiction for Young Adults, Parents, and Professionals (Greenwood Press, 1993).

• Preface My Three Faces: The Writer, the Therapist, and the Man by Chris Crutcher Coping with Parental Illness: Family Discord in Ordinary People by Pam B. Cole and Augustus Y. Napier Paul Zindel's My Darling, My Hamburger: A Study in School and Family Conflicts by Jeffrey S. Kaplan and William A. Long, Jr. Children of Alcoholics in Shelley Stoehr's Crosses: Teens + Alcoholic Parents = Problems by Diana Mitchell and Pat Zipper Delinquency and Family Conflict by Barbara L. Stanford and Roger D. Herring When Divorce Comes to Class by Bonnie O. Ericson and Shari Tarver-Behring Adam and Eve and Pinch Me: Issues of Adolescents in Foster Care by Cynthia Ann Bowman and Jennifer Fike Eating Disorders in Young Adults' Worlds and Their Literature: Starving and Stuffing Families by Pamela S. Carroll, Mae Z. Cleveland, and Elizabeth M. Myers Rights of Passage: Preparing Gay and Lesbian Youth for Their Journey into Adulthood by Patricia L. Daniel and Vicki J. McEntire Using Tears of a Tiger for Psychological and Literary Analysis by Sharon M. Draper and James D. Kelly Usingr The TV Guidance Counselor to Study Suicide and Its Effect on Families by Jenifer A. Nields, M.D. and Anne C. LeMieux A Therapeutic Reader's Response to Michael Dorris's A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Joan F. Kaywell and Sarah Anderson Powell Author Index Title Index