This guide to coaching female athletes of all ages shows how to build a team and provides invaluable advice on the differences between coaching males and females. The authors include exercises that foster teamwork and develop essential skills. They also answer parents' most common questions, such as how to tell if the coach is doing a good job and what to do if a child wants to quit. Filled with stories about the Olympic and World Cup championship teams, this useful handbook is infused throughout with DiCicco's philosophy that at every level playing soccer (or any sport) is about "playing hard, playing fair, playing to win, and having fun."

This book is not limited to students who have had character education. It can also be used as a tool for anyone who wants to help shape behavior in others to get desired behaviors

There's no way a little thing like losing his hand will keep Norm from trying out for baseball.

In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm. He suggests that the unconscious purpose of breakdown is to present the self to the other for transformative understanding; to have its core distress met and understood directly. If caught in time, a breakdown can become a breakthrough. It is an event imbued with the most profound personal significance, but it requires deep understanding if its meaning is to be released to its transformative potential. Bollas believes that hospitalization, intensive medication and CBT/DBT all negate this opportunity, and he proposes that many of these patients should instead be offered extended, intensive psychoanalysis. This book will be of interest to clinicians who find that, with patients on the verge of breakdown, conventional psychoanalytical work is insufficient to meet the emerging crisis. However, Bollas's challenging proposal will provoke many questions and in the final section of the book some of these are raised by Sacha Bollas and presented in a question-and-answer form.

The modern day youth sports environment has taken the enjoyment out of athletics for our children. Currently, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports by the age of 13, which has given rise to a generation of overweight, unhealthy young adults. There is a solution. John O’Sullivan shares the secrets of the coaches and parents who have not only raised elite athletes, but have done so by creating an environment that promotes positive core values and teaches life lessons instead of focusing on wins and losses, scholarships, and professional aspirations. Changing the Game gives adults a new paradigm and a game plan for raising happy, high performing children, and provides a national call to action to return youth sports to our kids.

As I look at our current situation in America, everyone seems to be talking about the economic crisis. I believe we are facing a crisis that is bigger, more far-reaching and longer lasting. That crisis is our American Youth. Over the years, we have made strides in science, technology and social prowess, however; I question if we are truly moving forward. The things that used to be unacceptable, immoral or illegal have become socially accepted. This publication suggests proven practices that if applied will aid in rehabilitating this present generation and generations to come. Dr. Francis S. Cole, Ph.D. U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. We cannot afford to leave our next generation to chance, there is too much at stake, if we pull together, we can all make it happen. The beauty of caring for children and assisting youth, is that no matter what color, religion, creed, nationality, or background, they are all children, OUR children, and we have an obligation to invest in them. Jeffrey Barton, Center Director, Job Corps Center, Kentucky Joy has written a practical guide for parents, grandparents and caregivers. Her back to basics approach provides effective strategies for rescuing our young people from the dangers they face if they are not given the proper guidance and instruction. Emma Fraser Pendleton, FraserNet, Educator, Bestselling Author and Motivational Speaker, New York, NY Author Bio: Joy Stevenson is a highly sought after motivational speaker, author and life coach. Growing up she experienced first hand the social ills that plague this current generation. She has been given a mandate to "cry out for the youth." Her passion is to impact the lives of todays' youth with her God given gift of LOVE!