Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope With Health Issues

Charlene Alexander is Associate Professor of Counseling at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Kelsey Backels is Associate Professor and Counseling Psychologist in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at Millersville University. Cynthia Ann Bowman is Assistant Professor of English Education at Florida State University. Danna Bozick is an internationally certified alcohol and drug abuse counselor. She is a licensed social worker working with adolescents and their families at the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic in Youngstown, Ohio. Kathleen Carico is Assistant Professor of English Education at Virginia Polytechnic and State University. Jan Carli is the guidance counselor at Alliance High School in Alliance, Ohio. Jan Cheripko is an assistant to the publisher of Boyds Mills Press, a children's book publishing company owned by Highlights for Children. Additionally, he is an English teacher at the Family Foundation School in Hancock, New York, a private school specializing in helping at-risk teenagers. Claire J. Dandeneau is Associate Professor of Psychology and Counseling at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Karen L. Ford is Associate Professor of Secondary Reading at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Margaret Ford is the district library/media specialist for Campbell City Schools in Campbell, Ohio. She is an adjunct faculty member at Youngstown State University. Phyllis A. Gordon is Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Counseling at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Joyce Graham is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of English Education at Radford University. David William Hartman is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Lewis-Gale Hospital in Salem, Virginia. Blind since he was eight, he received his M.D. from Temple University and is the subject of the NBC made-for-television movie Journey into Darkness. He has served on the Virginia State Board of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse Services. Scott Johnson is Director of Clinical Training for the Marriage and Family Therapy Doctoral Program at Virginia Tech. Sue F. Johnson is Assistant Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Patricia P. Kelly is Professor of English Education and Director of the Center for Teacher Education at Virginia Tech. Nancy Lafferty is a middle school counselor in Indianapolis, Indiana. Nancy Mellin Mccracken directs the English Education program at Kent State University and the Northeast Ohio Writing Project. Kim Mccollum-Clark is Assistant Professor of English Education at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. John Noell Moore is Assistant Professor of English Education at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Jim Powell is Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Nancy Prosenjak is Assistant Professor of English at Metropolitan State College of Denver. Albert Scott is a licensed counseling psychologist in both Pennsylvania and Ohio, a fellow of the American Board of Forensic Examiners, and a psychotherapist. Paula Stanley is Associate Professor of Counselor Education at Radford University in Radford, Virginia, where she also maintains a part-time private practice. Laura Sullivan and Diane Hartman are the social worker and nurse practitioner, respectively, working out of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit of Children's Hospital in Denver. Marshall D. Tessenear is Associate Director of the Thomas E. Cook Counseling Center at Virginia Tech. A. Lee Williams is Associate Professor in the Elementary Education Department of Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.Bowman, Cynthia Ann is the author of 'Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope With Health Issues', published 2000 under ISBN 9780313305313 and ISBN 0313305315.