Youth at Risk
Insights and Approaches for Professional Helpers, Teachers, and Parents
(Eighth Edition)
©2026, 504 pages
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Youth at Risk is an essential resource for anyone counseling, advocating for, and supporting youth of diverse backgrounds and contexts. It includes tried-and-true approaches right alongside must reads related to our post-COVID and rapidly changing technological and social–media driven context.
Organized into 19 chapters, editors David Capuzzi and Mark Stauffer, along with leading experts from across the field, cover topics ranging from identity and self-esteem issues to substance use and mood disorders. It includes unique, informative chapters for parents on the impact of social media and artificial intelligence, featuring case studies and “keys for engaging youth” that provide techniques or interventions that could be used when working with youth.
Key Features of the New Edition:
• Incorporates post-COVID-19 pandemic realities throughout the text.
• Contains seven brand-new chapters, focusing on such important topics as LGBTQIA2S+ youth; multicultural youth; social media and technology; homelessness; resources for parents; and artificial intelligence.
• Infuses diversity and social justice throughout and maps its content to the DSM-5-TR.
Designed as a resource for educators, mental health professionals, advocates, and parents, this textbook serves as a guide for undergraduate and graduate studies in counseling, education, social work, and youth advocacy.
Check out the table of contents comparison guide between the seventh and eighth editions.
Organized into 19 chapters, editors David Capuzzi and Mark Stauffer, along with leading experts from across the field, cover topics ranging from identity and self-esteem issues to substance use and mood disorders. It includes unique, informative chapters for parents on the impact of social media and artificial intelligence, featuring case studies and “keys for engaging youth” that provide techniques or interventions that could be used when working with youth.
Key Features of the New Edition:
• Incorporates post-COVID-19 pandemic realities throughout the text.
• Contains seven brand-new chapters, focusing on such important topics as LGBTQIA2S+ youth; multicultural youth; social media and technology; homelessness; resources for parents; and artificial intelligence.
• Infuses diversity and social justice throughout and maps its content to the DSM-5-TR.
Designed as a resource for educators, mental health professionals, advocates, and parents, this textbook serves as a guide for undergraduate and graduate studies in counseling, education, social work, and youth advocacy.
Check out the table of contents comparison guide between the seventh and eighth editions.
David Capuzzi, Ph.D., NCC, LPC is a faculty emeritus of Walden and professor emeritus of Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. A prolific author and journal editor, he is also a frequent speaker and keynoter at professional conferences and institutes as well as a consultant for a variety of school districts and community agencies.
Mark Stauffer, Ph.D., NCC is a core faculty member in the community mental health counseling program at Walden University. He often teaches crises, trauma, and disaster response. Dr. Stauffer was a Chi Sigma Iota International fellow and received the AHC Leadership Award in 2020.
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Praise for Previous Editions:
"The new edition of this well-respected book presents a powerful collection of chapters that address the significant challenges and possibilities of youth-focused prevention and intervention services. In addition to tackling the most pressing and timely topics of youth care—social media influences, sexual orientation, bullying, and substance misuse, to name just a few—the chapters are written and organized in user-friendly ways that will help mental health professionals, teachers, and parents immediately apply the book's content to their work with youth at the individual, family, school, or community levels."
John J. Murphy, PhD, University of Central Arkansas
"This revised edition provides up-to-date and relevant information about the multitude of factors that put youth at risk. The case studies and practical guidelines for prevention and intervention make this book a must-have for practitioners seeking to increase their knowledge and skills to work more effectively with this vulnerable population."
Ann Vernon, PhD, Professor Emerita, University of Northern Iowa
"The new edition of this well-respected book presents a powerful collection of chapters that address the significant challenges and possibilities of youth-focused prevention and intervention services. In addition to tackling the most pressing and timely topics of youth care—social media influences, sexual orientation, bullying, and substance misuse, to name just a few—the chapters are written and organized in user-friendly ways that will help mental health professionals, teachers, and parents immediately apply the book's content to their work with youth at the individual, family, school, or community levels."
John J. Murphy, PhD, University of Central Arkansas
"This revised edition provides up-to-date and relevant information about the multitude of factors that put youth at risk. The case studies and practical guidelines for prevention and intervention make this book a must-have for practitioners seeking to increase their knowledge and skills to work more effectively with this vulnerable population."
Ann Vernon, PhD, Professor Emerita, University of Northern Iowa
