Topic 6: It's Very Personal (Fact and Fiction)

• Fall08Requireds
• Summer08Requireds
• Smmer08dRequireds
• Spring07Requireds

Problem: What is this thing called adolescence? Do the materials written and produced for this group mirror reality and provide possibilities? How can professionals use these materials with teens in school and public libraries? 

Topics

• Advocacy for Teenagers: A Librarian's Professional Responsibility
• Adolescent Development:
• Physical development
• Emotional development
• Social development
• Spiritual development
• Censorship

Discussion Topic: Do you feel that realistic fiction or nonfiction aimed at teens can have a theraputic affect on the reader? (this has often been called bibliotherapy in the professional literature, i.e., give a girl with anorexia a book about a girl who conquered the problem.)