Author : Joseph Degeling & Christine Iangridge

 

This book talks about how to put parenting into practice:

   ● introduce and affirm clear boundaries

   ● set realistic consequences and rewards

 

Author: Steve Biddulph

 

This book is a good guide in helping parents with parent-child communication from babyhood to teens as well as becoming a stronger, more loving, more definite and more relaxing parent.

 

Author: Miraca U.M.Gross

 

The book examines the origin, development and school histories of 15 Australian children who are among the most remarkably gifted young people ever to be identified and studied in any country through the first ten years of a longitudinal research program.

 

Author: Tim Hagg

 

This book explores the Internet in terms of electronic mail, file transfer protocol, Usenet newsgroup, Gopher, video, chat, Telnet, and World Wide Web. It also introduces numerous sites that can enrich a family’s experience in cyberspace.

 

Author: Michael Carr-Gregg & Erin Shale

 

This is an easy reading book discussing:

● the three question in an adolescent’s life: “Am I normal”, “Who am I?”, “What is my       place in the world?”

● help adolescents knowing how to handle depression, suicidal feelings, relationships and emerging sexuality, drug, eating disorders – before they become crisis.

● good parenting as to how to provide adolescents with an environment where they feel safe, listen to and valued, how to set /negotiate boundaries, and raise children to be resilient adults and cope with difficulties in life

 

Author: Steve Biddulph

 

The book highlights

 

Author: William S. Pollack

 

In Real Boys’ Voices, Dr. William Pollack lets us hear how American boys themselves describe their isolation, depression, longing, love, and hope. In this pages, boys speak eloquently and truthfully about such topic as shame, bulling and teasing, the pressure to fit in, addictions, how they see the lives of the men they know, the importance of their parents, their own spiritual and creative experiences, friends with other boys and with girls, being gay, and coping with divorce and other losses, including the death of a friend or parent.

 

Author: William S. Pollack

Based on Pollack’s groundbreaking research at Harvard Medical School for more than two decades, Real Boys explores this generation’s “silent crisis”: why so many boys are sad, lonely, and confused although they may appear tough, cheerful, and confident. Pollack changes conventional expectations about manhood and masculinity that encourage parents to treat boys as little men, raising them though a toughening process that drives their true emotions underground

Author: Wayne Martino & Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

 

In Boys’ Stuff, teenagers write about their lives. It’s honest, raw and real. They talk about what the rules are, how they break them, and what really cool. It also talks about what guys think about friends, parents, sex, sport, drugs and everything else that matters.

 

Author: Sally MacGuire

 

Ready, Set, Grow! is an easy reading book and it discusses how teenager handle a bad hair day, to look good on the outside; and how to keep healthy without giving up hot chips, not be a supermodel or superman.

 

Author: Richard Linden

Hers and his looks at gender roles and gender equity in Australia. It also discuss different issues concerning body image, gender and health, family, homosexuality, education and sexual harassment.

 

Author: Kirsten Lamb

 

Dr. K. Lamb did her medical training at Cambridge University and the Royal London Hospital. In her book, she explains the facts of conception, pregnancy and the delivery of a new baby. It also discusses teenage pregnancy, the options when a pregnancy is unwanted, and how to avoid unwanted pregnancy. The book looks at the issues behind medical advances in pregnancy.

Author: Mary Pipher, PhD.

 

Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Mary Pipher, Ph. D., is alarmed by the devastating effects contemporary society can have on young women. In Reviving Ophelia she has provided a passionate account of her response to their problems, and

issued a call to arms and offers parents compassion, strength and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias’ lost sense of self.

 

Author: Earl Hipp

 

This book is geared to teenagers. It looks at:

 

Author: Michael Carr-Gregg

 

In this book, Dr. Michael Carr-Gregg shows both students and parents how to keep the exams—and the year in general—in perspective.

 

Author: Bev Aisbett

 

Taming the Black Dogis a simple guide to managing depression. This book, with its unique blend of wit, information and practical tips, will be an invaluable guide for sufferers of depression and anyone with a fit of “the blues”.

 

Author: Christine Read

 

Dr. Christine Read helps to lift the cloud on this misunderstood topic by explaining treatment and self-help options.

 

Author: Sarah Lennard-Brown

 

The book discusses the following:

ü      Introduction of stress and depression.

ü      Stress and change.

ü      The responses when people are stressed.

ü      Techniques to cope with stress.

ü      The symptoms and causes of depression.

ü      The treatment of depression.

 

Author: Milissa Deitz

 

My Life as a Side Effect is a loose dairy of Milissa Deitz’s depression and a searingly honest account of her own journey towards diagnosis, acceptance and management. This book also includes the testimonials of other suffers who have struggled with, and learned to manage depression. There are also interviews with medical professionals and information from support groups, including facts and strategies for dealing with depression on a daily basis.

 

Author: Bronte Cullis and Steve Bibb

 

Bronte Cullis was the Melbourne teenager whose battle with anorexia captured the hearts of Australians in a series of stories and documentaries by Ray Martin for the Nine Network.

Author: Yvette Solomon & John Coleman

 

Bullying can be nightmare because of the fear it creates. In the end, it becomes a vicious circle of fear and threat. In order to stop bullying, it is necessary to break that circle once and for all.

 

Editor: Justin Healey

 

Vol. 154 of Issue of Society, dealing with preventing bullying at school and the attitudes, and exposure, to violence by young people in the community.

 

Managing change

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PD 070

Taking risks

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PD 056

Managing stress

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PD 039

Friends

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PD 055

Where am I going?

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PD 100

Feeling good

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PD 098

Belonging

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PD 097

More than friends

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PD 099

Say no to diet

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FT 070

A everyday miracle: raising teenager

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S 344

Attention Deficit Disorder

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EDU 017

Autism, a stranger in the family

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EDU 017

The behaviour business

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S 421