Adolescents Books

I ordered this book for school and i recieved the book within 5 days. The book was in excellent condition and I got a great price for it. I am very pleased with my purchase.

This book addresses many relevant aspects, provides information on interventions on several levels (i.e. parent training, school interventions), and addresses the challenges often faced in intervention implementation. It is well written and well organized, and clarifies information with tables and diagrams. Most importantly, the information is empirically based. This book would be helpful to anyone preparing for or serving in a profession that serves children or families. It would also be helpful for parents.

This book is an excellent resource for any clinician who works with children or adolescents that are treated with psychiatric medications. This book contains individual, up-to-date medication handouts for parents/teachers and for youth. This text also includes a DVD that allows for these hand-outs to printed in PDF format. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone who prescribes psychiatric medication to children and adolescents.

Helping Schoolchildren Cope with Anger: A Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention by Jim Larson (Professor of Psychology and Director of the School Psychology Program, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater) and John Lochman (Professor and Saxon Chairholder in clinical Psychology, University of Alabama, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center) is a straightfoward, solution-oriented guide to dealing with chronic aggression in young students, particularly those ranging in age from 8 to 12 years. This invaluable, accessible work is based upon the latest studies and findings on childhood aggression, and presents the principles behind the authors' own approaches to teaching young folks how to cope with anger, along with session-by-session guidelines, and a great deal more, Helping Schoolchildren Cope with Anger is a first-rate supplement to professional help for disturbed children and highly recommended for professional and academic reference collections in the field of anger management studies.

Co-authored by academicians Jason J. Burrow-Sanchez (Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City) and Leanne S. Hawken (Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education, University of Utah, Salt Lake City), and the newest addition to 'The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools' series, "Helping Students Overcome Substance Abuse: Effective Practices For Prevention And Intervention" was specifically designed to assist teachers, counselors, and school administrators to recognize and help their students deal with addiction and abuse of a variety of commonly encountered drugs ranging from alcohol and prescription medications, to marijuana, cocaine, speed, and heroin. Of special note are the extensive sections devoted to individual and group counseling, as well as consultation and referrals. "Helping Students Overcome Substance Abuse" is an important and strongly recommended reading for anyone in a public or private school setting having to deal with substance abuse issues among their students and their student's families.

Any ideas supporting an end to the cycle of violence and discrimination in our teen population developed by these authors is a guarantee of a resource that is valuable and effective. The activities, excercises and information presented in this book seek to encourage teachers, parents and counselors of teens and the teens themselves to look into their own experiences and enlighten and expose their own potentially violent and discriminative attitudes. By acknowledging, exploring and identifying their own biases each person becomes a critical thinker capable of reading between the lines of human behavior and political propaganda. The authors explain the cycle of violence as beginning with the oppression and discrimination of people based on race, religion, gender, class, etc. The frustration and hopelessness felt by the oppressed manifests itself in the form of a violent act on the individual him or herself or on another person. By using this perspective the authors demonstrate the importance of not trying to stop violent behavior by encouraging teens to simply act in ways that others deem proper and simultaneously deny and repress true thoughts and feelings. As an educator I strongly recommend this book for you and your students and/or children.

Dr Hollander lifts the veil on a difficult issue. With compassion, he takes parents on a journey inside this thoughtful therapy. A clear and enjoyable writing style help render a sensitive subject approachable and manageable. Through the use of well chosen examples, Dr. Hollander effectively outlines the problems facing teens who cut and their parents. With that foundation of understanding, he follows with a practical guide for parents to support their teen, their family, and themselves as they navigate therapy. Beyond the primary goal of helping teens who cut, Dr. Hollander's book outlines ideas and skills that are helpful to any parent tackling the ever-changing challenges of raising a child, or any human struggling to cope with difficulties inherent in life.

I got this book early from Southern New Hampshire University's book store, as I am a student there. Dr. Gunzelmann was one of my professors and is currently my advisor. I used to be an education major, but recently switched to psychology. While reading this book, my first thoughts were about how some of the chapters in her book related to me when I was in high school and middle school. I also remembered other people I knew in school that had some of the problems Dr. Gunzelmann addressed.

In this book,Hidden Dangers: Subtle Signs of Failing Schools, Dr. Gunzelmann addresses many issue that are happening in our schools, some of which people would never have thought of. Dr. Gunzelmann even offers simple ideas to help the children, parents, teachers, just about everyone to change the schools for the better.

The book is straight forward, yet polite, and will make you want to re-read it just to get the information you might have missed, as it made the wheels turn in my head after every single word I read.

Definitly a must read for anyone who has a child, wants a child, and/or is involved in schools in any way, shape, or form.

I never thought the history of epilepsy could be exciting....but Dr. Friedlander's well-written book brings a dynamic essence to a mysterious and poorly understood disease. His research is painstaking and thorough, yet his verbage is far from dry and academic. He weaves a true story into a telling masterpiece of medical history. A must-read for any history buff who wants to understand how society views itself as it struggles to bring to light with one of humankind's great mysteries, that of epilepsy.

This is a great resource for school administrators and families. It's definitely the type of book you want to keep handy to use as a guide for children with ADHD. It's very practical, useful, and easy to understand.