This first batch of Chicken Soup for Teens consists of 101 stories every teenager can relate to and learn from -- without feeling criticized or judged. This edition contains important lessons on the nature of friendship and love, the importance of belief in the future, and the value of respect for oneself and others, and much more.
As the father of two teenage children (and three more growing in that direction), I was suprised at how different my relationship with them became once they reached adolescence. In T.L.C., the Saso's offer simple, logical advice that I have been able to use immediately. Easy to read. Based on experience. A good guidebook for parents.
A superbly written self-direction manual designed specifically for young adults on how to successfully negotiate their teen years as they mature into competent, healthy, emotionally well grounded adults. Readers are presented with useful skills enabling them to relax and have fun, experience and express gratitude, and create dreams for their future; develop safe ways to deal with anger; set goals and learn how to ask for what they want; learn how not to be manipulated and refuse peer pressure in bad situations.
This practical resource tool and handbook for counselors, pastors, and youth workers details over thirty common teenage problems arranged alphabetically from abuse to suicide, including such hot topics as anger, depression, drugs and alcohol, homosexuality, loneliness, peer pressure, and shyness.
This resource provides you with a penetrating portrayal of the rootlessness of many of today's youth and offers you a powerful, practical plan for reaching them. The authors bring perspectives from at-risk youth and base their ideas on the best research and practices available on positive youth development.
This wise, insightful book helps adults make sense of what children tell them. It provides an authoritative guide to obtaining and evaluating information from children about abuse and other stressful situations and helps adults communicate with children in a variety of settings.
Children and teens are increasingly being diagnosed as depressiveAperhaps because modern life is becoming more challenging or possibly because treatments that have proven effective for adults also work well for children. A staff physician with the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, Kaufman presents a good primer on treating teen depression. All of the major topics are covered in clear-cut language: how to find a therapist, possible treatments (including therapy and drug treatments, as well as alternative remedies), suicide prevention, and treatment of related substance abuse and anxiety disorders.
This practical book for teens and preteens is filled with helpful suggestions, true stories, lively cartoons, and proven effective skills for dealing with all kinds of negative peer pressure. All kids face difficult decisions at some point about things like cheating, fighting, skipping school, stealing, drugs, lying to parents, etc. Sometimes it's hard to just say "no" when their friends are saying "Everybody does it. We won't get caught."
