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Product Identifiers

PublisherCatholic University of America Press

ISBN-100813239206

ISBN-139780813239200

eBay Product ID (ePID)8069434599

Product Key Features

Number of Pages160 Pages

Publication NameYoung Adult PlayBook : Living like It Matters

LanguageEnglish

SubjectCounseling / Career Development, Education, Sociology / General, Counseling / General

Publication Year2024

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Social Science, Education

AuthorThomas W. Smith, Anna B. Moreland

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight22.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2024-024578

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Growing up has never felt more fraught. Options seem endless but each choice carries weight; no one dares give advice and role models are thin on the ground. Luckily, Anna Moreland and Thomas W. Smith are willing to step into the breach ? The Young Adult Playbook is warm and wise; its advice is straightforward and actionable. This is the book I wish I'd read before graduation."?Christine Emba, author of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation and columnist at The Atlantic

SynopsisThe Young Adult Playbook goes where other life design books refuse to go: it asks deep questions about what constitutes a happy life. After decades of listening to their students, Anna Moreland and Thomas Smith name the underlying desires in young adults: while searching for a lucrative career, they long for meaningful work; their social media and gaming practices point to a deeper yearning for intimacy; and their leisure habits have been crushed under the productivity machine. This book helps them unlock their deepest desires. It offers practical strategies to improve habits. And it leads them to recover activities lost from childhood. The book is threaded with the real voices of young adults who have found their way out of this rough terrain. These offer much needed models of hope, providing a concrete map through unprecedented challenges. Journal exercises throughout the chapters tailor the strategies for each individual reader. Plenty of books diagnose the ills of this digital age. Few offer a pathway out of these challenges. As caring and effective college professors, Moreland and Smith have spent decades rescuing students from this impoverished landscape. In this book they attempt to reach the students they can't teach.

LC Classification NumberHQ799.5.M665 2024