Drugs and alcohol. Self-injury. Puberty. Sexual purity. Anger, anxiety, grief, authority, identity. Keith and Patricia Miller have assembled a concise topical guide that gathers the relevant Scripture passages under each heading, so that someone sitting with a teenager in difficulty can go to the Bible quickly rather than hunting through a concordance. The entries are arranged alphabetically and print the references under clear subheadings.

The format is deliberately spare: this is a reference tool rather than a book of counseling theory, and its value is in being to hand at the moment it is needed. Updated and revised to address issues that have come to the fore among young people more recently, it suits youth pastors, parents, teachers and biblical counselors who want the Scriptures to do the work in a conversation.