Family & Relationships : Adolescence

What to do when a good girl falls for a bad boy? Here, at last, is a book that provides desperately needed help for anxious parents. It offers specific, usable tactics for confronting teen dating abuse, including: What to say to a daughter before she begins dating Twenty-three warning signs that a girl is in an unhealthy relationship Nine steps a best friend can take if dating violence is suspected Ten ways to intervene effectively and open up the lines of communication How to break the cycle of controlThroughout the book are the voices of girls and their parents, as well as the insights of psychologists who outline prevention strategies and discuss the most effective ways to communicate with a daughter when the last thing she wants is her parents' advice. more...

Price: $9.99

The Self-Directed Learning Handbook offers teachers and principals an innovative program for customizing schooling to the learning needs of individual students and for motivating them to take increasing responsibility for deciding what and how they should learn. Whether the students are struggling or proficient, the program is designed to nurture their natural passion for learning and mastery, challenging them to go beyond the easy and familiar so they can truly excel. more...

Price: $28.00

Difference, prejudice and discrimination are issues which all counsellors and psychotherapists need to address as part of their personal and professional development. Designed to support training on these complex issues, Difference & Discrimination in Counselling & Psychotherapy helps therapists understand the experience of discrimination, as well as explore their own - often unconscious - attitudes to others, based on gender, sexuality, race, culture or mental health. more...

Price: $119.00

In this groundbreaking resource to jump-start the conversation between parents and teens, "The Talk" helps parents articulate their values and talk about responsible behavior in a way that works. more...

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Mike Linderman is a star in the making. He wrestles cattle at the crack of dawn, then spends his days working with the country's most troubled teens before coming home at night to three healthy teens of his own. Where so many other therapists can only offer futile advice to struggling parents, Linderman has mastered a blend of downhome honesty and military–like discipline––not to mention a layer of trust and love very rarely found in the therapist's office. Most of the teens Linderman treats are angry, abused, violent, and dangerous–they are children without hope. Yet despite their difficult pasts, Linderman has achieved an extraordinary success rate with these teens, helping them turn their lives around and earning him the nickname "the Teen Whisperer." The son of a poor ranching family, Linderman learned at an early age the values of honesty, tough love, and hard work. Miraculously, it is those three values that have transformed the hardened clients at his school into loving, rational, productive teens. Finally, Linderman shares these and other secrets with parents everywhere as he explains his methods for turning around America's toughest teens. Centering on the Five Primary Needs of Teens (Survival, Fun, Freedom, Power, and Belonging), his approach demonstrates the importance each of these concepts plays in teen's family life and the negative impact that occurs when a family is incapable of fulfilling these Needs. Here he provides concrete steps that parents can take to reconnect with their teens as they work together to create a stronger relationship and kids learn to:.; Trust themselves and others.; Process emotion and pain in healthy ways.; Understand and appreciate boundaries.; Gain joy and pride in real work.; Live a life of love, respect and gratitude. Interacting with teens on their terms and in their language, Linderman allows parents to see that in order to help kids you must meet them at their level and more...

Price: $11.99