An alarming number of students lost a parent in the beginning years of the Bronx Expeditionary Learning High School (BELHS). Losing parents or closed loved ones was not an unusual experience for many of these students who were used to loss having come from neighborhoods plagued by violence, poverty, and segregation. The book explores the impact of Adventure Based Counseling (ABC) methods on the self-efficacies of students of color who have lost a parent at BELHS. Up until now there has been little research in ABC with this particular demographic. The General Self-Efficacy Scale (Schwarzer &...