Helping Teens

Let's face it: Life gives you plenty of reasons to get angry, sad, scared, and frustrated - and those feelings are okay. But sometimes it can feel like your emotions are taking over, spinning out of control with a mind of their own. To make matters worse, these overwhelming emotions might be interfering with school, causing trouble in your relationships, and preventing you from living a happier life.

In this book, which is based on new landmark research from the Fuller Youth Institute and combines in-depth interviews with data from 1,200 diverse teenagers, Kara Powell and Brad M. Griffin offer pastors, youth leaders, mentors, and parents practical and proven conversations and connections that help teenagers answer their three biggest questions and reach their full potential.

Helping Your Teenager Deal with Stress recognizes that you as a parent are undergoing a great deal of stress yourself and emphasizes that you don't need to be perfect to help your child. With anecdotes that show how other parents deal with problems, with practical exercises for you and your child, and with lists of organizations to contact and additional materials to read, this audiobook is a realistic and reassuring guide to helping your adolescent - and you - through the turbulent teenage years.

In the book Helping Anxious Teens, author Samantha L. Sullivan shares her personal story as the mother of five teens diagnosed with anxiety disorder. She uses her experience as a trained therapist and educator to explain why teens are being diagnosed with anxiety disorders at until now unheard of rates. She explores the brain's response to stress and different therapeutic approaches including the standard Western psychotherapy approach, holistic therapies, and traditional Eastern therapy techniques.

For the estimated 20 million Americans with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder comes the third edition of All About ADHD by Dr. Thomas W. Phelan, an internationally renowned expert and lecturer on child discipline and ADHD. Completely updated with the latest research and treatment information, All About ADHD is a comprehensive guide to ADHD's symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment in children and adults.

Dr. Eric Maisel, one of the world's leading experts on the issues of childhood, shares a unique exploration of the teen problems adolescents face. Maisel guides us on what it's like to inhabit the racing, often troubled realm of teenage psychology, and he provides powerful strategies to help parents and smart teens alike. You'll find a comprehensive breakdown of teenage psychology, strategies and solutions to help your smart teen reach their full potential, and a uniquely crafted listening experience for both parents and teens.

Fights at school, sexual abuse, eating disorders, school crises … the list goes on and on. Hardly a day passes without a local crisis at involving junior highers or high schoolers. This practical resource covers the whole continuum of private and public crisis, equipping parents to work with their kids to deal with any crisis in a way that helps the individual and helps the family stay intact.

This audiobook for teenagers and children is about understanding parents and unhealthy lifestyles during and after a parent’s drug or alcohol dependency and abuse. Children of alcoholic or addicted parents often have difficulty understanding what is happening to their parent. The story goes through the life of Alex whose father suffers from the disease of addiction and dependency on drugs or alcohol. It explores how Alex thinks, feels, and acts to his father’s dependency and how family separation may occur at times.

This book will guide you throughout your teenage years to adulthood. Life can be very confusing, and expectation lines are blurred, since the bridge between a kid to an adult phase is navigated so carelessly. This book provides insights on how to accurately view the world in truth and avoid pitfalls caused by false ideologies about identity. If you follow this audiobook's guidance, you will certainly emerge as a winner.

Do you want your children to be actively serving in the local church when they turn 30 and beyond? Why They Stay can help! Much has been written about younger adults and their departure from church involvement. Concerned parents and church leaders want to know what has caused them to depart. Instead of asking why young adults are leaving the church, Parr and Crites conducted a national research project of those who grew up in church and are still serving faithfully.

We live in challenging times where kids are feeling more and more isolated and alone. Having an unhappy child is a parent's worst fear. As such, parents want to give their kids the tools they need to understand the world they live in without making them so afraid they can never develop into who they are meant to be.

Life falls apart for Hayley when she doesn't make the swimming squad, and her best friend moves away. But then something very surprising happens...