Adolescence category: 1257 books
Big Talk
Talking to Your Child about Sex and Dating
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
A very accessible, step-by-step guide that provides simple yet meaningful ways to discuss this crucial subject. Makes talking about sex easy and opens lines of important communications between parents and children. Bravo!" —Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D. author of Children of Character: Leading...
by Zebony LaVie
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Youth today need refuge, some sort of safe place. This book gives them a place to turn when they have problems to solve. With Biblical guidance and a bit of conventional wisdom, the reader will be challenged to consider the options they have in life; learning that it is not always easy to take the...
by Dean Rawlins
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2015
This book is written to give hope to those who find or have found themselves in similar situations now or in the past. It may not seem like there is ever an end to the onslaughts of life’s oceans, but after every storm the sun shines and the sky is blue again.
Not all drugs have the same effect...
Get a Clue!
What's Really Going On With Pre-Teens and How Parents Can Help
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
This practical companion to Reviving Ophelia and Real Boys shares the concerns of preteens in their own words and advises parents how to approach them confidently and effectively.
Many parents may not want to know that their eight- to fourteen-year-olds are already facing serious issues and...
Cómo abrazar a un erizo
12 claves para conectar con los adolescentes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Igual que los erizos utilizan púas para protegerse, los adolescentes cuentan con sus propias defensas —un atuendo agresivo, una actitud provocadora— para preservar una identidad aún incipiente. Sin embargo, aunque a veces parezca lo contrario, los adolescentes necesitan y agradecen unas relaciones...
by Paul David Tripp
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 21, 2015
¿Cómo manejar los corajes y peleas de nuestros jóvenes?– La discusión sobre quién tendrá el último panecito, o las luchas sobre la ropa que quieren o no quieren ponerse, o la acusación: “Eres la única madre (o padre) que meobliga hacer…”¿Son molestias que incomodan...
by Araitz Petrizan, Maite Nascimento
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Un libro práctico e imprescindible para saber actuar frente a problemas tan graves como la alimentación, las drogas y las adicciones, el bullying, el ciberacoso, la identidad sexual, la depresión y el suicidio.
El éxito mundial de la serie Por 13 razones, basada en la novela homónima de...
Transitions in Care
Meeting the Challenges of Type 1 Diabetes in Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Providing care for a young adult with type 1 diabetes during this stage can be difficult as well. Transitions in Care serves as a coaching manual for health care providers and parents, and as a guide to self-care and independence for young adults with diabetes. It demystifies a complicated period in a life with type 1 diabetes and makes the passage to adulthood easier for everyone involved.
I Wear Glasses
A Rhyming Picture Book About the Fears and Concerns With Getting a First Pair of Glasses
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
When you can't see clearly life get's rather confusing. The same is true for this young boy.
Presented in rhyming text, this humorous and light hearted picture book gets into the fears and concerns of most all children who are about to take their first trip to the opthamologist and their first pair of glasses.
Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents
A Guide to Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Epidemiology of type 2 diabetes in youth, including evidence for and magnitude of the epidemic; pathophysiology in youth, case-finding criteria, and when to consider the possibility of type 2; and how to diagnose and treat diabetes in children and adolescents.
Adolescent Substance Abuse
A Guide to Prevention and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
An enlightening discussion of the major issues related to the prevention and treatment of adolescent substance abuse. Information-packed chapters lend a new perspective to the field and suggest implications for practice in services for youth.
Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States
Exemplary Models from a National Evaluation Study
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
You don’t have to reinvent the wheel--select and implement an effective substance abuse program from this essential book!
This essential book is the first ever published on exemplary models of adolescent drug treatment. It delivers detailed descriptions of exemplary drug treatment models...
Adolescent Substance Abuse
An Empirical-Based Group Preventive Health Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Here is a comprehensive review of adolescent substance abuse issues and an expansive, empirically based curriculum for school-based programs to teach adolescents about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. The abuse of alcohol and other drugs among young people is a problem of alarming scope and gravity....
No tan rápido
Cómo orientar a sus adolescentes acerca de los peligros de conducir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Most driving literature for parents focuses on how to teach a teen to drive without explaining why teen driving is so dangerous in the first place or giving parents a plan to preempt the hazards teens face. By contrast, No tan rápido empowers and guides parents to understand the causes and situations...