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To prepare:

• Review the Learning Resources on the joys of working with adolescents.
• Research a recent (within the past year) media story about adolescents making a positive difference in their communities.
• Think about how often adolescence is described in society using negative terms and consider how social workers could use their knowledge to flip the script to promote a positive narrative about the joys and opportunities of this time period.

Post:

• Briefly describe your selected media story and the impact that the adolescents have had on their community.
• Describe how the work of the teens in your story demonstrates resiliency in this generation of adolescents.
• Explain what social workers can learn from the adolescents featured in your story and from their generation at large.
• Laser, J. A., & Nicotera, N. (2021). Working with adolescents: A guide for practitioners (2nd ed.). The Guilford Press.
• Chapter 18, The Joys of Working with Adolescents (pp. 297306)
• Kranke, D. (2019).
• . Advances in Social Work, 19(2), 369382. https://doi.org/10.18060/22535
• McCullough, A., Jr., Morrell, F., Jr., Thomas, B., III, Waugh, V., Shubert, N., & Donofrio, A. (2020).
• . Harvard Educational Review, 90(2), 195228. https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-90.2.195
• Sinclair, K. A., Rodriguez, S., & Monreal, T. P. (2023).
• . International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 36(3), 392410. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2022.2025488