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This award-winning, easy-to-use guide offers a powerful set of tools and practical solutions to the most important challenge for today’s youth workers, educators, managers, and parents – communication breakdowns.

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Published September 19, 2023

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2023 IAN Book of the Year Awards Finalist in two categories:

  • Education/Reference
  • General Non-Fiction
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2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in one category:

  • Career – Adult nonfiction

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