This resource offers counseling strategies to promote adolescents' overlooked strengths and create healthy alternatives to problem behaviors such as bullying, drug use, violence, and promiscuity.

Surviving and thriving --Three identities : pandas, chameleons, and leopards -- Six strategies for nurturing resilience -- From truth to action : implementing strategies two through five -- The many expressions of youth resilience -- A new way to look at bullying -- Assessing resilience -- Translating the results of the resilient youth strengths inventory -- Conclusion : the need for change.