Understanding the Human Volcano: What Teens Can Do about Violence

by Earl Hipp

Book Overview

This much-needed, practical, and hope-filled book for young people is about understanding and taking action to reduce violence in our world. Young readers will learn what forces combine to allow human... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568383592
• ISBN13: 9781568383590
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

An informative text with cogent quotes & poignant stories

Understanding The Human Volcano: What Teens Can Do About Violence is a valued and important contribution to understanding the issues involved with adolescent violence -- its causes, containment, and amelioration. Psychotherapist Earl Hipp enhances his "reader friendly" and informative text with cogent quotes, poignant stories, and line-drawn illustrations throughout in order to help teens understand the changes that threaten their safety and the practical steps necessary to reduce the violence in their world. The message of Understanding The Human Volcano is a hopeful one of encouragement, that when teens and those that love them can, in fact, make their community a safer place in which to learn, grow, live, and thrive. Understanding The Human Volcano is a highly recommended addition to every high-school, community center, family counseling resource, and community library adolescent behavior reference collection.

A Book for Teens/Violence Prevention Discussion Leaders

In "Understanding the Human Volcano" Earl Hipp writes clearly and simply on the complex issue of violence in today's world. In describing the many faces of violence he includes memorable images and a basic vocabulary of psychological terms that will serve a young reader for life. Hipp speaks directly to the reader as he outlines what teens and adults can do to understand, and prevent violence in their own lives and in their community. I felt his caring on every page. He never talks down to kids. The dynamic cover and many illustrations by L. K. Hanson visually underscore the points made in Hipp's organization of topics, open questions, and answers from teen correspondents. A school or church group discussion leader will find this book a vital, workable resource that keeps the reader riveted, the discussions flowing. We will never know the number of lives this book on this topic will change, but I am sure life changes will come about. I'm going to read it again! I'm accepting Hipp's challenge to keep the faith, to work with others and to take practical steps to reduce the violence in our world.

A Book For Teens By Teens

Mr. Hipps book, "Understanding the Human Volcano", is not just another one of the self help books written by a self-rightous adult about their view of teens. Mr. Hipp actually went out and gathered information about teens, from teens; like myself. This book deals with what seems to be the recent dramatic increase in teen violence such as witnessed at Colulmbine. Volcano is not a book just for kids on the edge, but for kids who are around them and who know what those kids are thinking. With ideas from this book it might be possible to help troubled kids through their problems, or at least know where to go to get help. This book can also help adults understand what kind of stress we kids are dealing with these days, and not be so hard on us. Many times adults have a hard time understanding what is going on inside a kids head, this book will help adults to realize that the stress that we deal with is very real, as is their own. It is possible, through reading this book, that an adult can be better able to advise us (kids) as to; how to get help, where to get help and when to get help, in a day and age that is very different from when they were kids.