Growing up is a time of change and challenges. When an adolescent has an illness, addiction, or a psychiatric disorder, he or she faces even more hurdles. This text examines a wide range of these challenges.

Helping Youth with Mental, Physical, and Social Challenges

Parenting & Relationships

McIntosh, Kenneth

Nelson, Sheila

Walker, Ida

Flynn, Noa

Livingston, Phyllis

Parenting

Mason Crest

Follows sixteen-year-old Holly as she finds out she is pregnant, considers her options, tells her family, gives birth, and then considers her future.

Youth Coping with Teen Pregnancy: Growing Up Fast (Helping Youth With Mental, Physical, & Social Challenges)

Docalavich, Heather

Children's Books

Combines fictional stories of young people who have been labeled "gifted" with nonfiction sections providing information on the challenges of being a highly intelligent teen.

Youth who Are Gifted: Integrating Talents and Intelligence (Helping Youth With Mental, Physical, & Social Challenges)

Duncan is different from other teenagers. Sometimes people think he acts like a robot, with stiff movements and a flat voice. Duncan has Asperger's syndrome, a condition that's often considered to be high-functioning form of autism. This book explores Asperger's syndrome.

Youth with Asperger's Syndrome: A Different Drummer (Helping Youth With Mental, Physical, and Social Disabilities)

Chastain, Zachary

Offers the story of how a girl named Abby discovers she has bipolar disorder to present information on symptoms, causes, effects on individuals and their friends and families, treatments of the disease, and what life with it can be like.

Youth With Bipolar Disorder: Achieving Stability (Helping Youth With Mental, Physical, and Social Disabilities)

Hunter, David

Literature & Fiction

Youth With Depression And Anxiety: Moods That Overwhelm (Helping Youth With Mental, Physical, And Social Challenges)

Youth With Alcohol and Drug Addiction: Escape from Bondage (Helping Youth With Mental, Physical, and Social Challenges)

Despite decades of educational initiatives and prevention programs, teens are smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. This book helps you understand why.

Youth With Alcohol and Drug Addiction: Escape from Bondage (Helping Youth With Mental, Physical, & Social Challenges)

<p>Combines fictional stories of teens facing impulse-control issues with nonfiction sections providing information on these disorders.</p>

Youth with Impulse-Control Disorders: On the Spur of the Moment (Helping Youth With Mental, Physical, & Social Disabilities)

Book by McIntosh, Kenneth, Livingston, Phyllis

Youth With Juvenile Schizophrenia: The Search for Reality (Helping Youth With Mental, Physical, and Social Disabilities)

Youth Coping With Teen Pregnancy: Growing Up Fast (Helping Youth With Mental, Physical, & Social Disabilities)

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