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7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, The

Sean Covey

Applies the timeless principles of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. Shows teens how to improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents and much more.

16x23cm

268 pages

$30.00

Anger Workbook for Teens

Activities to help you deal with anger and frustration

Raychelle Lohmann, Julia Taylor

- Control anger and feel calm in the face of everyday problems
- Find healthy ways to express your feelings
- Get help when you need it
Another book in the Instant Help series, also available with a CD. This series is excellent.

25x20cm

144 pages

$26.00

Anxiety Workbook for Teens

Activities to Help You Deal with Anxiety & Worry

Lisa M Schab

Gives teens a collection of tools to control their anxiety and face their day to day challenges. Enables anxious teens to have more insight into their problems as well as practical ways to overcome them. It includes over 40 activities. Simple, effective solutions for
- Controlling anxiety in the face of everyday problems
- Developing a positive self-image
Seeking help and support.
Another book in the Instant Help series. These books are excellent.

25x20cm

178 pages

$28.00

Being a Happy Teenager

Matthews

Do you ever wish ... you were older? had more money? looked different? had different parents? Do you ever feel, “No one understands me!” or wonder, “Will I fall in love?” Do you ever ask, “Am I normal!” If you answered “yes” to half of the above, you sound perfectly normal. You will also find this book useful!

18x24cm

132 pages

$21.95

Beyond the Blues

A Workbook to Help Teens Overcome Depression

Lisa Schab

An invaluable tool in providing a comprehensive approach to treating depressed teens. The 40 illustrated activities include helping teens be more assertive, finding ways to make friends, handling conflicts, and of course, dealing with sad and difficult feelings. Here are simple, effective solutions to
- Help Teens Deal with Sad and Difficult Feelings
- Be More Assertive
- Find New Ways to Make Friends.

25x20cm

184 pages

$28.00

Bipolar Workbook for Teens

DBT Skills to Help You Control Mood Swings

Sheri Van Dijk, Karma Guindon

When you have bipolar disorder, it can sometimes seem like mood swings are keeping you from being the person you want to be. You may alternate between feelings of depression and overexcitement even though what you really want is to find a healthy balance between the two. This easy-to-use workbook presents a set of skills you can learn that will help you find that balance, become more independent, and stay focused on the big-picture goals that are most important to you.
Includes exercises and worksheets that will help you learn skills drawn from a special technique called dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). DBT skills can help people with bipolar disorder improve their relationships with friends and family and calm themselves when their emotions get really overwhelming.
Working through this book will help you:
Recognize and respond to your emotional triggers
Create a crisis plan and find support
Get a handle on addictive behavior
Maintain friendships and get along with your family.

25x20cm

160 pages

$26.00

Blame My Brain

The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed

Nicola Morgan

Written for teenagers but invaluable reading for those coping with them—parents, doctors, and teachers—Blame My Brain, a guide to the biology behind teenage behaviour, is informative, accessible, interactive, and fun. There are self administered "tests," scientific explanations (including wonderful images of trees to depict brain development), useful advice about emotions, sleep, risk, and harmful behaviours, and guidance about websites and other sources of reliable information.
From taking risks to sleeping late, gender differences to depression, uncontrollable emotions to the effects of drugs and alcohol, this book tells all you need to know about the biology and psychology behind the behaviour.

20x13cm

207 pages

$16.95

Boundaries

A Guide for Teens

Val Peter & Tom Dowd

This book invites young people to examine their lives and relationships. It begins by helping teens define what physical, emotional and sexual boundaries are. Stories illustrate how personal space and feelings can be either respected or violated. The book's journal format encourages teens to reflect on and record feelings about their own relationships.

22x14cm

100 pages

$17.95

Coping With Cliques

A workbook to help girls deal with gossip, put-downs, bullying & other mean behavior

Susan Sprague

When you're the target of snubbing or teasing at school, it's easy to feel like everyone else has a group of friends and you're the only odd one out. The reality is that gossip and rumors hurt everyone, and often, even the most popular girls feel alone. This book will help you deal with this hurtful behaviour. It includes key strategies for sticking up for yourself, maintaining your self-esteem even when others tease you, and finding friends who like you for who you are. The exercises in this workbook will help you to
- Handle Internet gossip and teasing
- Stop feeling like you have to be sexy
- Be assertive when necessary to gain respect and confidence
- Find true friends and stop being hurt by friends who leave you out.

25x20cm

160 pages

$28.00

Destroying Avalon

Junior Fiction

Kate McCaffrey

This is one of the very few junior fiction titles we have. This new Australian book tackles cyberbullying head on. This insidious form of bullying is realistically portrayed in what is a very gripping, somewhat confronting, story. Difficult to set an age range, maybe relevant for some older primary aged children in particular situations, definitely suitable for teens.
'I stared at the email in disbelief, the skin around my mouth prickling in horror...I had to know what they were saying, I shut my eyes and clicked on the link...'
When Avalon moves to the city her life is turned upside down. Starting at a new high school, she finds herself at the centre of a brutal cyber-bullying campaign. Miserable and isolated, Avalon relies on a small group of new friends. But as the threats escalate, is anyone safe?

20x13cm

264 pages

$17.95

Discovering Me

A Guide to Teaching Health and Building Adolescents' Self-Esteem

Leslie Herod

The youth of today is somewhat troubled. Many students are worrying about divorce, drugs, peer pressure and violence. It's important they receive the opportunity to develop, emotionally and intellectually, in a safe and structured environment. The author's approach in addressing these issues is non-threatening, introspective and fun. Using an interactive format, the book offers guidance on topics teenagers are most concerned about. The book is an excellent tool for developing essential life skills that can help youth pass through adolescence safely and successfully. For students and teachers.

28x22cm

364 pages

$64.95

Divorce Helpbook for Teens

Cynthia MacGregor

This warm and friendly guide offers a helping hand to teens struggling to answer the tough questions when their parents divorce: Why do parents get divorced? How will the divorce change our lives? What can I do to feel less depressed? Whom can I talk with about my problems? What's likely to happen next? How do you tell absent parents that they don't visit often enough? How do you say "no" to parents who want you to carry messages to, or spy on, the other parent? What is there to talk about when you visit a parent who's moved away?Packed with vignettes, strategies, and solid advice, The Divorce Helpbook for Teens is a resource teens will keep in their backpacks, on their bedside tables, and in their hearts as they go through the difficult times surrounding a family breakup.

21x15cm

134 pages

$28.00

Divorce Workbook for Teens

Activities to Help You Move Beyond the Break Up

Liam M Schab

Activities to help teens move beyond the breakup, understand their feelings, cope with parental fighting, and be happy despite family changes.

25x20cm

197 pages

$28.00

Feeling Like Crap

Young People and the Meaning of Self-Esteem

Nick Luxmoore

Explores how a young person's self is constructed, and what might really help that self to feel more valued and confident. Through accounts of his individual and group work with young people, demonstrates how listening to, engaging with and being respectful of young people can provide the support they need to help them repair their sense of self and offer them new possibilities and directions in life.

21x13cm

160 pages

$34.95

Fighting Invisible Tigers

Stress Management for Teens (Revised, Updated) (3RD ed.)

Earl Hipp

When you're stressed out, it can feel like being in a dense jungle full of invisible tigers - you can't see them, but you can sense them all around you.
If this sounds familiar, you're not alone. This book can help with strategies ofr calming down.

23x15cm

133 pages

$26.95

Girl Stuff

Your full-on guide to the teen years

Kaz Cooke

Everything you need to know about: friends, body changes, chopping, clothes and make-up, pimples (arrghh), sizes, hair, embarrassment, what to eat, moods, smoking, handling love and heartbreak, exercise, guys, school stress, sex, beating bullies, your rights, drinking, cheering up, getting parents to take you seriously, why diets suck, drugs, earning money, confidence, being happy with your own true self. AUSTRALIAN

23x19cm

554 pages

$39.95

Grief Book

Strategies for young people

Elizabeth Vercoe with Kerry Abramowski

"Grief is like manure; if you spread it out it fertilises. If you leave it in a big pile, it smells like hell." Thomas Golden Here is a book full of practical ideas to help you or somebody you know move through grief.

23x15cm

208 pages

$19.00

Grieving Teen

A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends

Helen Fitzgerald

Although the circumstances surrounding a death are difficult to handle at any age, adolescence brings with it challenges and struggles that until now have been largely overlooked. But in this unique and compassionate guide, renowned grief counselor Helen Fitzgerald turns her attention to the special needs of adolescents struggling with loss and gives them the tools they need to work through their pain and grief. Writing not only about but also for teenagers, Fitzgerald adeptly covers the entire range of situations in which teens may find themselves grieving a death, whether the cause was old age, terminal illness, school violence, or suicide. She helps teens address the gamut of strong and difficult emotions they will experience and the new situations they will face, including family changes, issues with friends, problems at school, and the courage needed to move forward with one's own life. Using the clear and accessible format that has made "The Mourning Handbook" and "The Grieving Child" enduring and helpful classics, Fitzgerald guides teens through everything from the sickbed to the funeral, from the first day back at school to the first anniversary of the death. Above all, she lets teens know that even in their darkest hour, they are not alone.

21x13cm

224 pages

$26.00

Healing your Grieving Heart for Teens

100 Practical Ideas
(Healing Your Grieving Heart)

Alan Wolfelt

What can we DO when someone we love dies. Grief can be all absorbing, especially in the teen years when emotions are such a predominant factor. Here are practical things to do, and they can help deal with grief.

23x16cm

84 pages

$24.00

Healing Your Grieving Heart Journal for Teens

Alan D Wolfelt & Megan Wolfelt

This guided journal encourages teens to learn about grief and mourning - topics include - what makes each teen's grief unique; common feelings after a death, the six needs of mourning; capturing memories of the person who died; and achieving reconciliation.
Throughout, teens are invited to write down responses to questions about their grief. Spaces to attach photos and other memorabilia help personalize the journal.

23x15cm

118 pages

$24.00

Helping Teens Handle Tough Experiences

Strategies to Foster Resilience with CDROM

Jill Nelson

Educators, mentors, congregational leaders, counselors, and other youth-serving professionals will find the tools they need to help young people with personal, familial, social, or cultural adversities in this resource. Specific crises are addressed, including youths who physically harm themselves, parents who are chemically dependent, abusive dating relationships, depression, and homelessness--and solutions are offered for managing them. With reproducible handouts, examples of real-life situations, and ideas and topics for group discussion, this strength-based approach to working with youths empowers them to avoid becoming paralyzed by obstacles and instead face life with confidence.

27x21cm

119 pages

$59.95

How Rude! Handbook of Friendship & Dating Manners for Teens

Handbook of Friendship & Dating Manners for Teens: Surviving the Social Scene (How Rude Handbooks for Teens )

Alex Packer

Is there a proper way to make new friends? Is teasing always rude? What can you do about friendship problems? How can you show a girl (or guy) that you like her (or him)? What's the best way to ask someone out...and who pays for the date? This book answers these questions and many more. Along the way, teens learn the basics of polite behavior with friends and more-than-friends--and laugh out loud while learning.

18x13cm

119 pages

$16.95

I Just Want You to be Happy

Preventing and Tackling Teenage Depression

Leanne Rowe, David Bennett, Bruce Tonge

One in five teenagers in Australia will experience major depression before they are 18 years of age and the chance of a child developing depression has tripled in the past 30 years. Depression is also particularly prevalent in girls staggeringly, over 340,000 prescriptions of antidepressants were written for young people under 18 in 2005. This book describes the factors contributing to this increasing depression in young people and why our search for constant happiness is setting our children up for problems. It is important for all parents to know that, contrary to popular myth, depression can be prevented and treated. An invaluable contact list of mental health organisations, support groups and websites where parents and carers can seek further help is also included. This book is a much-needed practical, clear and highly accessible guide to identify and help depressed teens.

20x14cm

240 pages

$28.00

I'm, Like, So Fat!

Helping Your Teen make Healthy Choices about Eating and Exercise in a Weight-obsessed World

Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

Hit the gym for a workout--but sit for hours at your computer. Supersize your value meals--but downsize your waistline. Today's media-saturated teenagers are bombarded with mixed messages that distort their self-image and lead many to overeat and others to starve themselves. Dr. Dianne Neumark-Sztainer shows parents how to strike the difficult balance between bolstering self-esteem and offering constructive advice. Drawing on her landmark study, Project EAT (Eating Among Teens), and her experience as a mother of four, she offers a wealth of science-based, practical ideas for instilling healthy eating and exercise habits, educating teens about nutrition and portion size, and talking about body image.

24x15cm

316 pages

$34.95

I've Got This Friend Who

Advice for Teens and Their Friends on Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Risky Behavior, and More

The experts at KidsPeace, a nonprofit organization serving children and families in crisis, have created this lively, interactive book to help teens handle difficult issues. Personal stories, fast facts, and self-tests help teens learn how to recognize when a friend or family member is in trouble and find help.

23x18cm

188 pages

$33.00

If I Stay

What would youdo if you had to choose?

Gayle Forman

For seventeen year old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend, decisions seem tough, even when they're all about a future full of music and love, a future that's brimming with hope.
But life can change in an instant.
A cold february morning...a snowy road...and suddenly all of Mia's choices are gone. Except one. As alone as she'll ever be, Mia must make the most difficult choice of all.

Haunting, heart-rending and ultimately life-affirming, this book will make you appreciate all that you have, all that you've lost - and all that might be.

This is a work of fiction, and as such is part of our collection only because it's message is one of such importance.

21x14cm

210 pages

$29.95

Life Lists for Teens

Espeland

Most books of lists are about facts, statistics, or trivia. This one is about you - your feelings, experiences, body, friends, family, future, challenges, and dreams. More than 200 lists distill big topics like health and wellness, relationships, school, goal-setting, and safety. These lists can help you do or be whoever you want to be - a stronger person, kinder one, someone who succeeds, makes a difference in the world, knows how to lighten up and have fun. Lists such as 12 serious reasons to laugh, 11 warning signs that you're under too much stress, 10 reasons not to get a tattoo or body piercing, 12 ways to keep cool during tests, 5 steps to getting more freedom, and heaps more.

15x23cm

264 pages

$24.95

Life Smart

Choices for young people about friendship, family and future

Vicki Bennett

For young people from 13-19, to help navigate the challenges of adolescence. Chapters on friendships, thinking, trusting yourself, choice, relating to family and peers, facing fears. Aussie author.

16x23cm

186 pages

$24.95

Other Side of Blue

What We Learn Through Overcoming Adversity

Michael Colling, ed

At some point we all face tragedy, misfortune or hardship. This book is an anthology of stories, from Australians mainly in their 20s and 30s, that provide hope for those struggling with tough issues in their lives. The contributions span many daunting and complex challenges: from surviving childhood sexual abuse, to family breakdowns, 'coming out', domestic violence, depression, recovery from severe injury and coping with the death of a loved one.
While the majority of stories are from everyday people, some well-known personalities also share their struggles. Life spares no-one tough times.
As many of these stories demonstrate, adversity in the midst of vulnerability provides the impetus for courage, personal determination and new insights.

22x15cm

182 pages

$24.95

Power Tools for Positive Living

Positive optimism for young people.

Elizabeth McLean & Ian Redman

Simple and practical ways to meet daily challenges and help teenagers to think and act positively, showing how they can make helpful choices.
With chapters on What we think, Self-Talk, When something happens, We choose what we think, Explaining what we think, Rotten ruminating, Choices and consequences, the Tools you need.

17x20cm

105 pages

$27.50

Puberty Girl

Shushann Movsessian

Psst, want a whole new approach to puberty? Puberty Girl is smart, intelligent, fun, colourful and factual and TELLS IT LIKE IT IS. Beautifully illustrated and presented in a teenage appealing format, this book has chapters called Ooh la la: what's happening to me, the big M, the period costume, your body means business, puberty power, I'm the boss of my gody, work it out girlfriend - conflict solving and more. Aussie author who has run groups on puberty at Royal Womens's Hospital Sydney for the last 13 years.

21x21cm

119 pages

$26.95

Strengths Explorer for Ages 10 to 14

Gallup Youth Development Specialists

"StrengthsExplorer For Ages 10 to 14" was developed with the renowned rigor and expertise of Gallup researchers, many of whom participated in the development of StrengthsFinder for adults. The program is a fun, simple way for adolescents to discover and develop their own unique gifts and abilities. An ID code allows teens to access a specially designed website. Then, by answering a series of questions about themselves, they learn about their strengths. An activity-filled workbook helps them focus on those strengths, while a parent's guide suggests ways that parents can learn more about their child's abilities and encourage their continued development. Access to Website

30x22cm

$50.00

Surviving Year 12

A sanity kit for students and their parents.

Carr-Gregg

Shows both students and parents how to keep the exams - and the year in general - in perpective. Discusses smarter study strategies, dealing with stress and anxiety, getting enough sleep, setting and achieving goals, emotional health and your social life, 'managing' family, developing good exercise and diet regimes, and coping with the exams themselves. Includes a special section for parents on how to help the whole family get through the year, as well as comments from students, teachers and principals. Aussie author - Michael Carr-Gregg specializes in adolescent mental health and well being.

14x22cm

191 pages

$19.95

Taking charge

Edelman & Remond

16x23cm

$22.00

Teenagers

A Natural History

David Bainbridge

What's the point of all the aches, pains, lumps and bumps? Are teenagers driven by their hormones? And do they really need so much sleep? Why are they brainier than everyone else?
Taking a 'zoological' approach to the topic a Cambridge University vet and anatomist reveals where teenagers come from, what they are for, and why the second decade of life is the most important and the most exciting in the human life cycle. In lively, engaging prdse, he explains the science behind the changes that suddenly occur on the surface of the teenage boyd and explores what happens deep within the brain.
Whether you are one yourself, or you just live with one, you will come away from this book convinced that the teenager is the most amazing and impressive creature on the planet.

20x13cm

358 pages

$25.00

Teens, Loss, and Grief

The Ultimate Teen Guide - It Happened to Me Series

Edward Myers

A self-help guide for teenagers who are struggling with bereavement and the emotional difficulties it presents. This book provides an overview of grief as a painful but normal process, offering insights from bereavement experts as well as practical suggestions for coping with loss, including accounts from teens. This book closes a gap in the available literature on grief and bereavement that has tended to focus on adults and younger children. It provides a warm, accessible resource that will reassure teen readers about the normality of grief, encourages their understanding of what happens during the grief process, and provides an indispensable resource guide.

25x18cm

176 pages

$25.00

Too Old for This, Too Young for That

Your Survival Tuide for the Middle-School Years.

Mosafche & Unger

Full of straight talk, helpful tips, good advice, and quotes from real kids, this is just the thing for folk in school years 6-9. It answers questions about changing bodies, braces and glasses, mood swings, stress and coping, fears and strong feelings like anger, sadness and grief, difficulties talking to parents, privacy, friends, cliques and peer pressure, being smart, good and bad risks, and a whole lot more.

18x23cm

190 pages

$29.95

Too Stressed to Think?:

A Teen Guide to Staying Sane When Life Makes You Crazy

Anne Fox

Most teens today are stressed out. Considering what they have to deal with?family conflicts, school, friendship and dating issues, peer pressure, harassment, bullying, identity issues, anxiety, depression, alcohol, drugs, sex, and on and on?it's no wonder they feel like they?re going crazy. This book is packed with practical information teens can use every day. Real-life examples cover specific situations all teens face. Questionnaires, exercises, role plays, and more help teens discover what they need and what works for them. Teens gain a basic understanding of stress and learn specific ways to relieve the stress in their lives. Succinct, helpful, and user-friendly, Too Stressed to Think? is for any teen who wants to stay sane.

22x15cm

163 pages

$29.95

What in the World Do You Do When Your Parents Divorce

A survival guide for kids

Kent Winchester & Roberta Beyer

This companion to Speaking of Divorce is for kids ages 7–12. In a simple question-and-answer format, the book gently explains what divorce is, why parents decide to divorce, new living arrangements, how to handle feelings, and other basics to help children understand what's happening in their lives. With honesty and simplicity, the authors help children realize that divorce isn't their fault, strong emotions are okay, and families can survive difficult changes. Written to and for kids, this book is also recommended for parents, educators, counselors, and youth workers.

16x16cm

115 pages

$19.95

What’s Right For Me?

Making Good Choices in Relationships

Herron & Peter

What every teen should know about teasing, prejudice, date violence, teen sex, bullies, sexual con artists, jealousy and envy - and how to cope in a range of situations involving relationships.

14x22cm

160 pages

$17.95

When Nothing Matters Anymore

A Survival Guide for Depressed Teens (Revised)

Bev Cobain

In 1994, Kurt Cobain ended his long struggle with depression and chemical dependency by taking his own life. His suicide profoundly affected millions of fans around the world who identified with the music of Kurt and his band, Nirvana.
Bev Cobain is Kurt's cousin, and this powerful book is her way of dealing with his death--and reaching out to teens with a life-saving message: You don't have to be sad, discouraged, or depressed. There is help and hope for you.
Full of solid information and straight talk, this book defines and explains adolescent depression, reveals how common it is, describes the symptoms, and spreads the good news that depression is treatable. Personal stories, photos, and poetry from teens dealing with depression speak directly to readers' feelings, concerns, and experiences.
Teens learn how to recognize depression in themselves and others, understand its effects, and take care of themselves by relaxing, exercising, eating right, and talking things over with people who care. For some teens, self-help isn't enough, so Bev also tells about treatment options, presents the facts about therapy, explains the differences between various types of helping professionals (psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, physicians, counselors, etc.), discusses medications, and more. This book isn't just for teens who have been diagnosed with depression. It's for any teen who feels hopeless, helpless, and alone. Clear, encouraging, and matter-of-fact, it's also recommended for parents, teachers, and counselors who want to know more about teen depression.

23x15cm

146 pages

$25.95

Wise Highs

How to Thrill, Chill, & Get Away from It All Without Alcohol or Other Drugs

Alex Packer

Describes more than 150 ways to feel really, really good-naturally, safely, and creatively. From breathing and meditation to exercise and sports, gardening, music, and games, these are "highs" that can change teens' lives without leaving them dull, burned out, or hung over. Formerly titled HIGHS! Includes updated resourc

23x19cm

250 pages

$30.00


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