Hurt 2.0 ()

Chap Clark

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Hurt provided a vivid and insightful view into the world of today's teenagers. Now leading youth ministry expert Chap Clark substantially updates and revises his groundbreaking bestseller (over 55,000 copies sold). Hurt 2.0 features a new chapter on youth at society's margins and new material on social networking and gaming. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised with new research, statistics, quotations, and documentation.Praise for the first edition"Based on solid research and years of insightful observation, Hurt offers a deep and penetrating look into the contemporary adolescent experience that will serve us well as we work to have a prophetic, preventive, and redemptive influence on the world of today's youth culture."--Walt Mueller, Center for Parent/Youth Understanding"A daring yet hopeful glance into the underworld of teen promiscuity, self-mutilation, and suicide. . . . A groundbreaking resource for parents, youth ministers, and counselors."--ForeWord"Clark's classic book [is] highly recommended by youth workers and educators who write about teenage stress. It is foundational reading that provides valuable insight into the hurting hearts of young people."--YouthWorker Journal"Clark has been stepping inside the world of teenagers for many years. This book is a unique invitation for us to join him in their world. When we finish this journey, we will care more about kids and understand who they are and the challenges they face."--Denny Rydberg, Young Life"Drawing together research from many others along with his fresh exploration into the world beneath, Clark paints a compelling picture of adolescent life. . . . This book is a must-read for anyone who has any contact with adolescents."--Journal of Youth Ministry

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• Philosophie et théologie

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• Publié par: Baker Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781441235794
• Langue: English

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Youth, Family, and Culture Series Chap Clark, series editor
The Youth, Family, and Culture series examines the broad categories involved in studying and caring for the needs of the young and is dedicated to the preparation and vocational strengthening of those who are committed to the spiritual development of adolescents.
© 2004, 2011 by Chap Clark
Published by Baker Academic
a division of Baker Publishing Group
P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.bakeracademic.com
Hurt 2.0 is a revised edition of Hurt .
E-book edition created 2011
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
ISBN 978-1-4412-3579-4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
“Chap Clark’s classic book [is] highly recommended by youth workers and educators who write about teenage stress. It is foundational reading that provides valuable insight into the hurting hearts of young people.”
— Peggy Kendall , YouthWorker Journal
“This book does a great job of framing the issues affecting adolescents. It provided me with some powerful insights. No wonder adolescents identify with the movies I have been making—the characters are on the same journey of trying to find hope and authenticity. This book is a great look inside the adolescent world, the world beneath the one exposed to adults.”
— Ralph Winter , movie producer, X-Men Trilogy , Fantastic Four , Star Trek series, and Cool It
“What makes Hurt so valuable is that it marries the very best of careful scholarship with a deep compassion for kids. Clark is not just an academic who offers thoughtful ethnographic research. He’s a frontline youth worker who still spends time with these students even after all the data has been collected. This important book will be very helpful to youth workers, parents, counselors, and educators alike.”
— Duffy Robbins , associate professor of youth ministry, Eastern University
“This book is a must-read for anyone who has any contact with adolescents, for as Clark points out, overriding the negative forces of abandonment means each teen needs multiple positive voices in their world. Written accessibly, this book could be given as a resource to volunteers in a youth group, but the depth of research displayed makes it invaluable in an academic setting as well.”
— Anna E. Aven , Journal of Youth Ministry
“[Clark’s] lucid writing style combines warmth and compassion with sociology-textbook straightforwardness, backing his observations with extensive research—his own and others’. . . . Hurt is must-reading for every parent, educator, and youth worker in America.”
— Gary Hassig , CBA Retailers + Resources
contents
Cover
Title Page
Series Page
Copyright Page
Endorsements
Contents
Preface to Hurt 2.0
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Youth, Family, and Culture Series
Part 1: The Changing Adolescent World
1: The Changing Face Of Adolescence
2: Abandonment—The Defining Issue For Contemporary Adolescents
3: The World Beneath
Part 2: The Landscape of the World Beneath
4: Peers
5: School
6: Family
7: Sports
8: Sex
9: Busyness and Stress
10: Ethics and Morality
11: Partying, Gaming, and Social Networking
12: Kids at the Margins
Part 3: Where Do We Go From Here?
13: What Do Midadolescents Need?
14: Five Strategies To Turn the Tide of Systemic Abandonment
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Notes
preface to hurt 2.0
I t is hard to know when a second edition of a book is needed. On the one hand, the issues and cultural changes detailed in the original Hurt led many people to such a new way of thinking about teens and the world we have handed them that the first edition’s basic conclusions should have a relatively long shelf life. Yet at the same time, one thing that has become clear to me since I first embarked on the Hurt Project (as it is now sometimes called) is that Hurt was only the beginning. The world is changing so quickly, and the way our young must adapt to those changes far outpaces adults’ assumptions and axioms about who teenagers are, how they feel, and what growing up is like from their perspective. Moreover, there have been sweeping changes in the systems and structures that adults have carefully crafted over the decades to guide our dealings with youth. From education to youth sports to media to parenting, just about every institution has become more complex, more demanding, and more relationally disengaged than when Hurt first came out. Adults themselves are scrambling to survive, and whenever a child or adolescent happens to throw a wrench in our plans or agenda, the child becomes the problem, or as therapists put it, the “identified patient.”
When Hurt was first published, I encountered a fairly significant amount of pushback from just about every side (except from the youth themselves, for in every case where a teenager has heard me speak or read Hurt or its more popular cousin, When Kids Hurt , they have nearly universally exclaimed, “Finally, somebody gets us! Listen to him!”). The two statements I heard during the first year or two the book was out were, “Not my/our kids; you’re talking about those kids in LA,” and “You’re just focusing on the extreme or fringe kids, not the ________ (fill in the blank: smart, stable, gifted, etc.) kids.” Today, whenever I speak or interact with those who deal directly with teens on the field, including parents—and I get to speak to thousands every year on this topic around the world—the response is almost always overwhelming: “We get it, already! Now, what do we do about it?”
So why would we need a second edition if the case has been made and we are collectively ready to do what it takes to bring substantive change to the way we care for and guide children and adolescents into productive adulthood? If society is ready to reengage our young by altering, sometimes radically, the systems and structures that serve them, why do we need to do more research, look at new and fresh data, ask deeper and more penetrating questions, challenge long-held assumptions, and be dragged into a more profound sense of fear for our kids? It is for one simple reason, and in the first edition I barely realized the implications of what Hurt had discovered and presented. The reason for Hurt 2.0 is that those who control and define the systems and structures charged with nurturing and training up our young (and especially those who have the power associated with them) are either ignorant of how destructive life is for today’s adolescents or unwilling to take the wide array of indicators seriously.
To me, both of these options are beyond regrettable: they are reprehensible.
For those who think I speak in hyperbole or who have encountered Hurt along the way (maybe even read it) but who somehow were able to discount the findings or ignore the implications, this edition is for you, as well as any newcomers who have never been exposed to these results and conclusions. Hurt 2.0 uses the basic framework of the first edition, keeping in what has remained the same over the last few years. At the same time this edition takes on a whole series of new insights and data that have become relevant since the first edition was published. This edition goes point by point, paragraph by paragraph, and study by study in order to carefully assess what is going on with and inside today’s kids.
Examples of some of the new materials and ideas examined for this edition include the following (and there are many, many more throughout Hurt 2.0 ): A CDC study states that 25 percent of fourteen- to nineteen-year-old adolescent girls have “at least one” of the more common sexually transmitted diseases (and this study was limited to those reported through CDC channels, so there is no knowing how widespread the danger is, and what the rates are when sexual activity ramps up in their twenties). In a Princeton and Cornell study on self-injury, one in five college freshmen girls and one in seven boys reported “self-injury” (a finding based on self-reported data, which could mean it is much more serious than even these numbers—and this at our elite universities). MILF [1] was the sexually charged “word” of the day in the early 2000s; today those words are “cougar” and “sexting.” [2] A campaign by developmental psychologist Jeffrey J. Arnett and others to remove the term adolescent from post-high school “emerging adults” so as not to “offend” those in their twenties and even thirties who are having a hard time settling into adult roles has created a ripple effect of recasting what term we use for the fourteen- to twenty-year-old former “midadolescent.” Yet we see now three distinct stages of adolescence, given the classic understanding of the term, where early (eleven to fourteen years old) is marked by concrete cognition and psychosocial dynamism, late (twenty to as late as early thirties) employs abstract cognition and psychosocial dynamism, and the midadolescent is so engrossed in personal survival that his or her life and perspective can be described as egocentric abstraction . Yesterday’s “helicopter parents,” whose perceived overinvestment in their child’s world and performance can result in overprotecting their children from consequences, have become “stealth bomber parents” who actually do more harm than good because their children learn how to adapt at the expense of their own developmental needs. In attempting to understand how midadolescents make sense of their daily lives, the first edition described them living in “layers.” Based on new research theory and data, as well as our research team’s observations and conclusions, Hurt 2.0 us