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Status:Available Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens are Really Doing Online
Published: 2007
An inside guide to what teens are doing with technology; covers social networkiang, blogging, cyberfullying and much more. Full of candid interviews with teens and industry professionals, fascinating statistics and relevent anecdotes. .. Details >>
Status:Available Getting Thru to Kids: Problem Solving with Children Ages 6 to 18
Published: 1997
Shows you how to improve kids' honesty, trust and school attitudes; discover the source of problems and how to resolve them; help children's and adults' thinking & listening skills; and establish trust and rapport with kids... Details >>
Status:Available Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth
Published: 1998
A lens of clarity that will help adults (gay or straight) see things from a kid's point of view. Describes young people who are trying to define themselves in a society of judgment, anger, stereotyping and expectations. Aimed at counselors, parents and yo.. Details >>
Status:Available Active Parenting Now
Published: 2002
A guide for parents of children ages 5 to 12, this book explains positive discipline and communication techniques that help families run more smoothly. .. Details >>
Status:Available 10 Things Parents Should Know About Drug & Alcohol Abuse
Published: 1991
This book answers 10 common questions parents ask about drug & alcohol abuse, such as how to talk to children about these topics, and debunks widely-held myths... Details >>
Status:Available Breaking the Cycle of Addiction: A Parent's Guide to Raising Healthy Kids
Published: 1987
This guide teaches parents, who were themselves raised by addicted parents, how to raise their kids to be healthy, and how to parent the child within themselves. To break the cycle of addiction, parents need to learn what is to be "child-conscious"... Details >>
Status:Available Drug Addiction: Learn About It Before Your Kids Do!
Published: 1987
Dr Andre shows us addiction, with a specialized focus on cocaine, and how it takes hold of its victims. We learn about addiction and what it does to us physically, about intervention, the hospitalization process, the treatment center and the follow-up in.. Details >>
Status:Available Parenting for Prevention: How to Raise a Child to Say No to Alcohol/Drugs
Published: 1988
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Status:Available Ten Talks Parents Must Have with Their Children About Drugs & Choices
Published: 2001
Offers practical advice on how to begin talking to teens & what to say- not just about drugs but about peer pressure, stress, health, the law, & mixed messages in the media. Easy to use, w/ family-tested strategies for kids of all ages... Details >>
Status:Available Children of Alcoholics: A Guide for Parents, Educators, and Therapists
Published: 1983
A guide to working with children of alcoholics for parents, teachers, and therapists. Explains how the alcoholic family functions, how parental alcoholism affects a child's personality and behavior, and how these children can overcome... Details >>
Status:Available Wise Up to Teens: Insights into Marketing and Advertising to Teenagers
Published: 1999
Market research on what and how teens buy- intended for those who wish to market to teens. Includes: tested guidelines for promotions aimed at teens; how teens use the internet; how teens select brands; trends and fads- how to leverage them; teens' "Rules.. Details >>
Status:Available Tough Love: How Parents Can Deal With Drug Abuse
Published: 1996
A book for all parents, but especially for those whose children use drugs, Tough Love gathers real-life accounts of young drug users and their parents' role in securing help, using the Palmer Drug Abuse Program... Details >>
Status:Available Helping Your Chemically Dependent Teenager Recover: A Guide for Parents & Other Concerned Adults
Published: 1991
A step-by-step guide. Addresses the 4 stages of recovery, problems faced by both teens & parents in each stage & how to get past them. Describes teenage recovery as a slow but steady process of growth & change unique to the developing adolescent... Details >>
Status:Available Alcohol: What's a Parent to Believe?
Published: 2003
Addiction specialist Stephen Biddulph helps parents sort through the latest facts, the known risks, and divergent perspectives on alcohol use. His basic message? For teens, drinking alcohol equals risk. Your basic message? That's up to you. Covers interve.. Details >>
Status:Available Marijuana: What's a Parent to Believe?
Published: 2003
Addiction specialist Timmen Cermak helps parents sort through the latest facts, the known risks, & the divergent perspectives on pot. His basic message? For teens, marijuana use equals risk. Your basic message? That's up to you. Addresses intervention & t.. Details >>
Status:Available Marijuana: What's a Parent to Believe?
Published: 2003
Addiction specialist Timmen Cermak helps parents sort through the latest facts, the known risks, & the divergent perspectives on pot. His basic message? For teens, marijuana use equals risk. Your basic message? That's up to you. Addresses intervention & t.. Details >>
Status:Available Don't Let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug & Alcohol Addicted Children
Published: 1996
This recovery guide dares to focus on the needs of the exhausted parent of an addicted teen. It offers a message of hope, & teaches you how to avoid using your children's behavior as a weapon against them. Teaches parents how to start attending to their o.. Details >>
Status:Available Don't Leave It to Chance: A Guide for Families of Problem Gamblers
Published: 2000
Includes sections on what questions to ask, what to do, what not to do, advice on financial problems, hands-on exercises, and a wonderful explanation of how cognitive- behavioral treatments work. Equally appropriate for treatment professionals... Details >>
Status:Available Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Guide for Families & Communities
Published: 1998
Drawing on her life's work, the author addresses these FAS topics: diagnosis, services for high-risk mothers, teratology & brain damage, employment & advocacy, physical & behavioral manifestations, education, and public policy. For professionals and famil.. Details >>
Status:Available Hit By a Ton of Bricks: You're Not Alone When Your Child's on Drugs
Published: 2003
19 stories of hope, love & healing for parents whose children abuse drugs or alcohol. Pastor John Vawter shares his daughter's journey from addiction to sobriety, and he and other parents open their hearts to reveal the agony in their homes and the grace.. Details >>
Status:Available Adolescent Drug & Alcohol Abuse: How to Spot It, Stop It, and Get Help for Your Family
Published: 2000
Offers parents, professionals & family members info on how to spot the signs of abuse in teens, overcome family guilt, confusion, denial & excuses, find allies in the community, select quality treatment facilities, and to take care of themselves during th.. Details >>
Status:Available The Challenge of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Overcoming Secondary Disabilities
Published: 1997
Twenty-two experts on FAS/FAE describe the secondary disabilities people face, such as mental health & drug and alcohol problems, inappropriate sexual behavior, trouble w/ the law, homelessness, disrupted school experience, and difficulty caring for their.. Details >>
Status:Available Recovering Our Children: A Handbook for Parents of Young People in Early Recovery
Published: 2003
From experience w/ thousands of kids & their families, the authors help parents recognize the signs of addiction, show how they can find help, and how they can reclaims control of their lives. Emphasis on alternative peer groups... Details >>
Status:Available Your Defiant Child: 8 Steps to Better Behavior
Published: 1998
Offers the parents of unyielding or combative children the understanding & guidance they need. Clearly explains what causes defiance, when it becomes problematic, & how it can be resolved. .. Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 09/15/2010) Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading & Threatening
Published: 2004
Based on the CRAFT model, this book provides the guidance & tools you need to understand how you & your addicted loved ones interact, & how to change those patterns, improving your life while making sobriety a more rewarding option for them... Details >>
Status:Available Guia Para Padres de Jovenes Deprimidos
Published: 1997
**A Parent's Guide for Suicidal & Depressed Teens** Helps parents determine whether their child is in crisis. Discusses how to deal w/ ongoing adolescent issues including depression, and how to get help... Details >>
Status:Available Bullying at School
Published: 1993
Practical advice for principals, teachers & parents on how to implement a "whole school approach to bullying," & a guide to help teachers & parents recognize if a child is being victimized or is bullying others... Details >>
Status:Available Teasing and Harassment
Published: 2001
Learn how to counter & prevent low-level agression in school & at home. Based on social learning theory, the frames & scripts approach provides easy-to-learn language for working w/ kids to unlearn the behavior that leads to teasing & learn positive probl.. Details >>
Status:Available A Parent's Guide to Sex, Drugs and Flunking Out
Published: 2001
Alcohol and drug use. Money matters. Academic pressure. Helping your college-bound child make healthy choices in the midst of newfound freedom presents an entirely new area of parenting challenges. Offers friendly and practical advice about assisting kids.. Details >>
Status:Available Reclaim Your Family From Addiction: How Couples and Families Recover Love and Meaning
Published: 2000
Explains how families & couples can lose their cohesive identity & meaning in the wake of addiction. Histories, personal stories & the latest research help readers chart their own way out of the hell of addiction & back to lasting, loving family relations.. Details >>
Status:Available Addict in the Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery
Published: 2003
Personal stories that show that family members don't cause their loved one's addiction, not can they control or cure it. They can find support, set boundaries, detatch w/ love, & eventually discover how to enjoy life even if the addiction persists. A book.. Details >>
Status:Available Put Yourself in Their Shoes: Understanding Teenagers with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Published: 1999
Covers characteristics & causes of ADHD in adolescents, how to get a good assessment, medications, controversial treatments, how to build positive communications at home, ADHD & the military, preventing & handling delinquency and substance abuse, and prep.. Details >>
Status:Available Winning the Drug War at Home
Published: 2006
One mother's struggle & heartache upon discovering her son is using marijuana, with a Christian perspective. Includes excerpts from letters her son wrote while in Utah at a court-ordered therapeutic wilderness program... Details >>
Status:Available Choices & Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs
Published: 1987
Written for parents, teachers, doctors, clergy, etc, this book tells you precisely how you can help a teen abusing substances. Describes a step-by-step process called an intervention which can be used to stop a teen's harmful involvement with chemicals... Details >>
Status:Available Violence in Schools: The Enabling Factor
Published: 1994
Addresses violence in schools from a systemic approach, and focuses on school, parental and peer enabling. Enabling checklists included for these 3 groups. Violence problems can be solved if schools consciously examine how enabling manifests itself w/in t.. Details >>
Status:Available High Risk: Children Without a Conscience
Published: 1987
Learn to recognize character-disturbed children & adults, prevent the development of antisocial behavior, find the best help if your child is at risk, and minimize the trauma of adoption & foster care... Details >>
Status:Available Helping Your Child Learn Right from Wrong
Published: 1976
A self-help manual for parents to aid in establishing moral values & emotional self-awareness in children. A series of game-like strategies is presented which help family members examine feelings about friendship, money, work, honesty, etc. Easy for the p.. Details >>
Status:Available Mommy, I Can't Sit Still: Coping with Hyperactive and Agressive Children
Published: 1989
Offers a 3-fold approach to helping hyperactive & agressive children realized their true potential. Illustrates the fears, distortions & stresses the maladjusted child endures. Examines pharmacological, dietary & psychological treatments... Details >>
Status:Available Reclaim Your Family From Addiction
Published: 2000
Addresses the stages of addiction w/in the family, anger, how kids & couples are affected, and how hopelessness can give rise to the process of recovery. Gives special attention to how families progress through early, middle and late recovery... Details >>
Status:Available When to Worry: How to Tell if Your Teen Needs Help and What to Do About It
Published: 2007
Helps distinguish typical teen behaviors from those that warrant concern. Addresses warning signs of serious problems, how & where to get help and medications. Issues include mental health problems & suicide, drug & alcohol abuse, eating disorders, school.. Details >>
Status:Available From Binge to Blackout: A Mother & Son Struggle with Teen Drinking
Published: 2006
Written by a mother & son, this book chronicles Toren's college drinking as it crosses the line into alcoholism. Includes checklists for choosing colleges, helping teens in trouble, planning spring break trips, and surviving rehab and early recovery, as w.. Details >>
Status:Available What Kids Need to Succeed
Published: 1998
Spells out the 40 developmental assets that young people need to succeed and keep out of trouble, including family support, a caring neighborhood, self-esteem, & positive values. More than 900 specific, practical suggestions to help build assets at home,.. Details >>
Status:Available What Young Children Need to Succeed: Working Together From Birth to Age 11
Published: 2000
Spells out over 1,000 practical, creative ways to build assets in kids from birth to 11 years. Addresses family support, a caring neighborhood, positive values & social skills. For Parents, educators, religious leaders, health- care professionals, librari.. Details >>
Status:Available TAG, You're It! 50 Easy Ways to Connect with Young People
Published: 2003
50 commonsense ideas for connecting with young people, based on the 40 Developmental Assets. Written for parents, educators, business-people, youth workers and congregational leaders... Details >>