Adolescents Books

This is practical, easy to use, and so comprehensive! This has helped us a great deal with our son with Aspergers, as well as with our daughter who has ADHD. It teaches four steps for processing feelings:
1. Accept your feelings
2. Relax...take a break
3. Think about ways to help yourself
4. DO something to help yourself
It then discusses each step in greater detail, giving examples and ideas. Read it when the seas are calm at your house, and then try the ideas when stormy weather approaches...you'll be surprised at the results!

A really great useful book written in a way that's easy to read and understand.Many helpful suggestions.A must have book for parents of kids with TBI.Wonderful book

Excellent book! A must have for anyone in the education of teens...from teachers to administrators. Although I am a parent of teenagers, I learned so much information on the physiology of an adolescent brain, and how it affects & influences learning during these developmentally important years. As an educator, it definitely changed, but also reaffirmed my approaches to teaching teens.

Both books provide current, informative and inspiring information about recent advances in brain research and implications for clinical psychology practice.

In a time when we continue searching for teen violence's causes, this book provides important insights into this issue. Dr. Hazler includes descriptions of both bullies and victims, and offers crucial guidelines for teachers and parents to assist adolescents through difficult situations. This book is a must read for educators, counselors and parents.

I wrote this book as a training manual for therapists who are interested in learning an adaptation of cognitive therapy, for work with depressed young people. I'd be happy to hear from any readers, as I'm intending to do another book, expanding the techniques presented and using more family interventions. Any thoughts are welcomed.

This product is in amazing shape, thank you for being so eager to send it out so quick. It came just in time and I love the book. Thank you Jamie

Nominally I would take at face value and trust the review given by Publishers Weekly (above). IN this case though, I believe the public would be given a disservice if some of the finer feautures of the book were not pointed out. PW might be too myopic about writing style rather than a concerted focus on the issues this book tackles. I would wholeheartedly recommend 'Bring Them Back Alive' to any person involved in youth advocacy, for any parent concerned with their teen in any way, for any person who seeks to understand the state of mind of todays disenfranchised youth. It is ironic that as the use of the Internet adds a dazzingly real and potentially profound twist in the stages of development for teens as a potent force of influence, that there would seem to be no main throught stream in juniour adult psychology yet to address this burgeoning issue. Perhaps it shows how little we know. This, in fact, has always been the case of we representative adults and always been the main gap between adults and teens. How little we know and how much we choose to selectively forget about our own formative years. This has been the focus on this book. i.e. How to better understand and overcome that gap. The book doesnt use complex jargon based on demographics and studies and analysis or heavy wording or flow charts, but nor does it waver towards the overly simplistic. It cuts across and dissects both to reveal a mosaic look on the complexities of the problem of teens gravitating towards trouble in our society, and suggests that the best way to tackle the problem is to have your tack motivated from an angle of understanding first. It does not offer easy solutions or "tough love" type geared answers and anyone reading it should be prepared to roll up their sleeves a little. It is too bad that Publishers Weeekly ignored the real and complex elements this book tries to tackle and its tantamount importance to society. It is a formidable effort to treat one of North Americas most neglected and underscored issues with intelligence, respect and know-how. Perhaps Publishers Weekely feel this type of book is not worth its time nor do they feel the effort towards the problems it attempts to assuage are worth sustaining. Like a teen itself, this book deserves a good chance at understanding as long as you dont overlook the complexity of what it tries to tackle and you are prepared to take a little bad mixed in with the good. Anyone who works with youth or intends to , any parent, any person with disenfranchised youth living in their community, or any one person who seeks to read a book by an author with his finger gently on the pulse of todays youth should read this book. It is a must have for your library. Thanks to Amazon for allowing readers to post reviews and accolades to this book! - Max Stelmacker, BC, CANADA

In Bringing Home The Laundry: Effective Parenting For College And Beyond, clinical psychologist and family counselor Janis Brody reveals the core issues facing parents and their college-bound children. These issues include dealing with separation anxiety, depression, decision making, and keeping in touch. Brody explains parental behavior that provides a secure base for children; reveals the underlying causes of (and focuses attention on) specific interactions that can prevent gradual separation; offers practical advice on solving problems for the student and determining the emotional health of family members; explores the family dynamics contributing to separation anxiety. If you are the parent of a college-bound son or daughter, sit down in a quiet place and carefully read Bringing Home The Laundry.

This book written by professor Keith Hawton from the Centre of Suicide Research at the University of Oxford, Karen Rodham from the University of Bath and Emma Evans working in primary care is based on the study of over 6,000 adolescents (15-16 year olds) from 41 schools all over England. 5,293 completed all questions concerned with deliberate self-harm and a total of 13.2% (784) reported having deliberately tried to harm themselves at some point in their lives. Self-harm in the past year was reported by 8.6% (509) and far more common in females than males (11.2% versus 3.2%).
This book with nine chapters, where the study in England is scholarly compared with other studies in England and abroad also has useful contact addresses for adolescents with problems, sources of information and further suggested readings. It is a very important read for not only professionals working with adolescents, but also policy makers and researchers and young people themselves. It is concluded with a list of clinical, research and societal needs.

Professor Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Office of the Medical Director, Ministry of Social Affairs, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: [...]