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Nowinski, Joseph.
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649.125 22
Publication Date
2007
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Issues like violence, drinking, self-mutilation, and eating disorders are on the rise among teens. The author has more than 20 years of experience working with troubled teens as well as serving as a special consultant to major research centers including Yale and Columbia Universities. This book includes compelling stories of some of the author's patients - the problems they have struggled with and how they found their way to a healthier identity. Each story illustrates the issue of developing identity and how the author has helped these troubled teens. Each chapter concludes with practical information for parents to use in helping their children, plus a Q & A section that addresses the most common questions asked by parents and teens.
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Guilamo-Ramos, Vincent.
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306.874 22
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2010
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The close supervision of adolescents dramatically reduces the incidence of risky sexual behavior, drug and alcohol use, and other activities that could negatively affect health and well-being. Because of the strong correlation between parental monitoring and a child's welfare, social workers, psychologists, child development specialists, and other professionals who work with children now seek to incorporate monitoring into their programs and practice. Therefore they require a definitive resource providing the best research and techniques for productive supervision within the home.>
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Waddell, Margot, 1946-
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649.125 22
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2005
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How much independence should parents allow teenagers who claim rights and privileges but do not take responsibility, show excessive confidence and test the boundaries of discipline? To what extent should parents try to understand and accept changes in their adolescent child when he doesn't fully understand these changes himself? And how can parents cope with the physical changes and emotional challenges in their adolescent child?. Margot Waddell offers helpful advice to parents whose children have reached the turbulent teenage years. From conflict management to addressing issues of bullying, s.
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Harris, Martha.
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649.125 22
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2007
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Waters, Mary C.
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305.235097309051 22
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2011
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What is it like to become an adult in 21st-century America? This book takes us to four very different places - New York, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota - explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country.
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Archer, Caroline, 1948-
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649.145 21
Publication Date
1999
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Boushey, Ann, 1957-
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618.92858832 22
Publication Date
2007
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Ann Boushéy's teenage son Jon was diagnosed with high-functioning autism in kindergarten. Having mastered the day-to-day challenges that parenting a young child with autism or Asperger's Syndrome pose, Talking Teenagers considers questions surrounding parenting across the spectrum during the teenage years. Written out of her own experience, this inspirational book provides the information that will encourage other parents with teens on the autism spectrum. Covering everyday topics, from what to take on vacation and dealing with anger, to sex education and planning for the parents' own d.
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Leishman, June L.
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618.200835 22
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2007
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Knauer, Sandra.
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362.7680973
Publication Date
2000
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No Ordinary Life: Parenting the Sexually Abused Child and Adolescent was written for parents, caregivers, survivors of abuse, counselors, and therapists to understand the special needs of the population of sexually abused children. It will help caregivers especially to establish appropriate expectations and sexual boundaries of the young people in their care. This book includes topic-specific subjects such as identifying the signs of sexual abuse in children; what to do when abuse is suspected or disclosed; how to deal with eating disorders, self-mutilation, and acting out behaviors; and disci.
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Chase, Elaine, 1962-
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362.820835 22
Publication Date
2009
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' & Hellip;invaluable in providing vivid illustrations of the strengths and needs of young parents who have been 'looked after' and, therefore of their children at the start of their lives. It illuminates policy and practice implications and points the way forward to what needs to be done to ameliorate their lives. Throughout, it presents its research in an accessible style and measured tone that make it difficult to put down.'. - Extract from the Foreword by Ann Phoenix, Co-Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. Supporting Young Parents explor.
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Di Ceglie, Domenico.
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618.928583 22
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1998
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