Salvaging a Teenage Wasteland
origins of the recovery high school movement
$139.45
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2025
Summary
Salvaging a Teenage Wasteland: A History of Recovery High Schools
Recovery high schools have become a key setting supporting the adolescent recovery process over the last fifty years. Salvaging a Teenage Wasteland provides the first major historical account of the recovery high school movement from its beginnings in the alternative schools of the 1970s that overlapped with the first adolescent substance use treatment programs.
Our understanding of recovery high scho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780190645502 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0190645504 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Finch |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 671g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm x 26mm |
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Finch does a more than laudable job. * J. R. Edwards, CHOICE *
About The Author
Andrew J. Finch
Dr. Andrew Finch is a Professor of the Practice at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, where he is a core faculty member in the Human Development Counseling program. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Human & Organizational Development since 2006, where he has taught courses in human development, addictions, college admissions, and career counseling. Dr. Finch co-founded the Association of Recovery Schools in 2002. He has been a leadresearcher on three national studies of recovery high schools and helped write their standards for accreditation. Dr. Finch helped start Community High School in Nashville, one of the early recovery high schools,where he worked as a counselor and administrator for nine years. Dr. Finch also helped found Vanderbilt’s collegiate recovery program.
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