How to Help Your Hurting Friend: Clear Guidance for Messy Problems - Paperback

by Susie Shellenberger (Author)

No issue is taboo for How to Help Your Hurting Friend, a frank and valuable handbook of practical advice for today's teenage girls.

Previously published as Help! My Friend Is Hurting Susie Shellenberger--author and teen advocate--addresses the most vital, personal, and life-challenging issues in young women's lives. Presented in handbook form, this biblically-based, relevant, and contemporary-focused book empowers girls to salvage and maybe even save the lives of friends. She addresses such things as self-cutting and sexual abuse in a no-nonsense way and no advice is ever vague. This classic book for teenage girls distills the wisdom of the Bible and combines it with the wisdom of many experienced and anointed counselors.

How to Help Your Hurting Friend:

• This is a reissued edition of Help! My Friend Is Hurting.
• Has a new format including sidebars and intriguing illustrations.
• Is a great resource for teens, young adults, and parents alike
• Includes commentary on today's challenges, advice, and a section of letters to the author with helpful, relevant responses.

Back Jacket

A valuable handbook of practical advice for teenage girls to share with their friends Susie Shellenberger---veteran editor of Focus on the Family's Brio magazine---addresses the most vital, personal, and life-challenging issues in young women's lives so that concerned friends can respond in love and wisdom to their friends who are coping with crises. Presented in handbook form, this biblically-based, relevant, and contemporary-focused book empowers girls to salvage and even save the lives of their troubled peers. No issue is taboo (for example, she addresses self-cutting and sexual abuse) and no advice is ever vague (on the first page, Susie tells her readers that 'Jesus Christ is the one who does the empowering!'). This classic book for teenage girls distills the wisdom of the Bible and combines it with the wisdom of many experienced and anointed counselors. Previously published as Help! My Friend Is Hurting, this reissued edition has a dynamic new format complete with sidebars and intriguing illustrations.