Adolescence category: 1257 books

The daughter of a hardworking sharecropper in Arkansas, Loretta longed for something better. Determined to escape poverty, she left the farm to live with relatives in Little Rock two days after graduating from high school. Within a year she headed west and began her new life in Los Angeles. This...

The teenage years can be challenging time, but family therapist Jeanne Meijs sees teenagehood as a journey along a path, a journey that parents and teenagers can travel together. This books helps parents to understand the journey, and how to support their child along the way. As the relationship between...

"Your go-to gift for new fathers." — Dave Ramsey, New York Times bestselling author, motivational speaker, and radio host Whether you know it or not, if you're a dad, you’e a hero— that's the message of bestselling author and pediatrician Meg Meeker. Even if you're struggling with...

The time has come when we as parents and leaders must take a stand and take back our children.

The world statistics on teenage drug and substance abuse are rather staggering which is a clear evidence that this is a problem that not only confronts young people, but the adults and the entire society. This book addresses various issues related to causes, effects and prevention of teenage...

The long-awaited, highly anticipated companion volume to The Princess Bitchface Syndrome - the must-have manual for all parents of teenage boys. Dr Michael Carr-Gregg believes that too many Australian boys have got it too easy - and the result is a generation of 'boofheads': boys with huge...

In this hard-hitting book, Michael Carr-Gregg focuses on the special trials of raising adolescent girls today: what to do when your previously quiet, loving daughter becomes a restless, rebellious stranger who behaves like a responsible adult one day and a vampish brat the next. Part of the problem...

Do you find bringing up teenagers more of a pain than a pleasure? Raising teenagers can test parental love to breaking point, particularly if you have previously enjoyed a close and loving relationship. The child whose every joy and sadness you shared has suddenly become taller than you, louder than...

Long Title. Short Book. HUGE Impact!We all want to see kids rise to their full potential, don't we?Building a teenager's self-confidence, self-worth and self-esteem are crucial their success... and yours.But why is it so hard sometimes to get through to them? Why do...

Explore the most effective methods of studying school violence! School violence and safety research will move forward and make unique scientific contributions only if it develops a core literature that critically examines its measurements, methods, and data analysis techniques. Issues in School...

Never before have our daughters been more concerned and obsessed with the concept of being "fat." From kindergarten on up, girls worry about the size of their stomachs, backsides, and thighs, and even the youngest experiment with dieting and exercise. Much has been written to girls on the challenges...

The 5-Step Foundational Parenting Model is new in the addiction field and, unlike previous books, teaches parents a systematic approach to support their children in their successful long-term recovery, how to reconnect with the entire family, and how to be in charge again. Unique in that it...

Kill Happy (Zora Baker #3) Deeply moving and extraordinarily suspenseful, Kill Happy captures the struggle between saving the remnants of humanity and satisfying personal desires. This is an apocalyptic thriller mixed with rip roaring humor. If you thought "Children of the...

Stay up-to-date in the continuing fight to assess and treat adolescent drug and alcohol abuse Adolescent Substance Abuse: New Frontiers in Assessment presents up-to-date research on the assessment, intervention, and treatment of alcohol and drug use behaviors in adolescents, using screening...