Family & Relationships : Adolescence

The author of Choice Theory and Reality Therapy offers a powerful approach for helping troubled teens. In his decades as a therapist, Dr William Glasser has often counselled parents and teenagers. His advice has healed shattered families and changed lives. Now in his first book on the lessons he has learned, he asks parents to reject the 'common sense' that tells them to 'lay down the law', ground teens, or try to coerce them into changing behaviour. These strategies have never worked, asserts Dr Glasser, and never will. Instead he offers a different approach based upon Choice Theory. Glasser spells out the seven deadly habits parents practiSe and then shows them how to accomplish their goals by changing their own behaviour. Above all, he helps parents keep their relationship with their child strong. Dr Glasser provides a groundbreaking method that any parent can use with confidence and love. more...

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Erica Frydenberg provides a clear account of current research and thinking on coping, which is complemented by the voices of young people throughout the book. more...

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This overview examines problems currently faced by adolescents. Sixteen experts present research into depression and the suicidal adolescent, assessment procedures, psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological treatments, eating disorders and violence. more...

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Bipolar disorder is difficult at any age, but it can be particularly daunting for teenagers and their families. This book provides information parents can use to help teens cope - and thrive. It helps parents distinguish between the typical ups and downs of teen life and the symptoms of mania or depression. more...

Price: $40.00

School is often a pressured environment where personal problems and peer group tensions arise, but have no time or place to be properly addressed. As a result, pupils' need for pastoral support and care is great, especially approaching and during that most challenging of developmental stages: being a teenager. Brief Counselling in Schools, Second Edition is a practical guide to providing help and support to young people experiencing difficulties in home and school life. Recognizing the constraints of working within school settings, the book illustrates how counselling can nevertheless be effective, even when time is short and confidentiality is hard to preserve. Based on a method of brief integrative counselling that can be adapted for the range of problems which pupils bring to counselling, and illustrated with rich and varied case material, the chapters look at issues of:. " self-esteem. " depression and suicidal thoughts. " bullying. " parental separation and step-parent conflict. " loss and bereavement. " spiritual concerns. " smoking, drug and alcohol use, and. " sexuality. This fully updated Second Edition includes a brand new chapter covering anger, aggression and violence in schools. In addition, the chapter on ethical boundaries now includes information on new legislation regarding counselling in schools (including current British child protection law and the BACP ethical framework). Brief Counselling in Schools will be invaluable to those offering counselling within schools: both trained counsellors and those involved in teaching and education welfare who are developing their skills in this area. more...

Price: $36.95