Best of
Adolescence

2010

The Wanted: Our Story, Our Way: 100% Official


The Wanted - 2010
    It also offers an extraordinary insight into the boys' lives, including each member's journey to becoming part of the Wanted. Revealing everything there is to know about Max, Nathan, Jay, Siva, and Tom, this is quite simply their fans' most wanted book.

Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents and Young Adults


Sylvie Naar-King - 2010
    Filled with vivid examples, sample dialogues, and "dos and don'ts," the book shows how conducting MI from a developmentally informed standpoint can help practitioners quickly build rapport with young patients, enhance their motivation to make healthy changes, and overcome ambivalence. Experts on specific adolescent problems describe MI applications in such key areas as substance abuse, smoking, sexual risk taking, eating disorders and obesity, chronic illness management, and externalizing and internalizing behavior problems.

8 Great Dates For Moms And Daughters: How To Talk About True Beauty, Cool Fashion, And Modesty! (Secret Keeper Girl)


Dannah Gresh - 2010
    Quality time between a mom and a daughter can be the greatest protection against the world's pressures to make a girl mature too quickly. Knowing this, Dannah Gresh, popular speaker and founder of the Secret Keeper Girl conferences, has developed a host of dating ideas to help moms invest the time needed to deeply connect with their daughters.8 Great Dates includes fun mother-daughter get-togethers, perfect one-on-one or for a small group of moms and their energetic 8-12 year-old daughters. Each date focuses on one topic surrounding beauty and modesty and is full of fun while at the same time imparting a life and faith-enhancing message. The book provides a mom with everything she needs to plan and carry out the activities and includes topics such as:The power of true beauty--what makes a girl beautiful?Truth or bare fashions--how to balance fashion and godly modestyHair, makeup and clothes--who should be your model?Here's the secret to bringing up healthy, grounded, and spiritually rich girls!

I'd Listen to My Parents If They'd Just Shut Up: What to Say and Not Say When Parenting Teens


Anthony E. Wolf - 2010
    I’d Listen to My Parents If They’d Just Shut Up offers frustrated moms and dads humorous, dialog-based advice and techniques for what to say and not to say when parenting teens today.

The Teen's Guide to World Domination: Advice on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Awesomeness


Josh Shipp - 2010
    For the first time ever, Josh is pulling together all of his unique advice for "world domination" into a must-have survival guide. Hilarious, inspirational, and authentic, Josh offers golden nuggets of wisdom for everything that has you freaking out (pretty much all the stuff you can't fathom addressing with Mom and Dad). So, summon your inner hero and learn to dominate the seven "villains" that are keeping you from awesomeness.GHOSTS: All your painful memories and bad mistakes, which are holding you back and causing self-doubt. Confront them once and for allNINJAS: Back-stabbing "friends" who earn your trust to fulfill their own agendas. Call them out and they won't stand a chancePIRATES: Bullies and bad boyfriends who take advantage of you. Write them off and tune them outROBOTS: Well-intentioned but misguided grown-ups, who want to "program" you to be like them. Understand how parents, teachers, and counselors operate to improve your communicationVAMPIRES: Negative influences and addictions, which draw you in and steal your identity. Regain your self-esteem before you get bitZOMBIES: Chronic complainers who drag you down with their pessimism. The best zombie-repellant is gratitude! Learn that it's not what happens to you, it's how you respondPUPPIES: They seem all fun and innocent on the surface, but often blindside you with hidden consequences. Learn how to think smart about money, your hot girlfriend, and other temptations

We Are The Engineers


Angela Melick - 2010
    These comics are an engineering student's comic observations about belligerent baristas, grade-grabbing geniuses, psychotic squirrels, addictive anime, impossible internships... and everything in between! The best-of collection from the popular webcomic "Wasted Talent".

Minor Acts of Heroism: Play Date


Adriana Ferguson - 2010
    Three young kids deal with life, love, water monsters, teleportation, super science, and all the other crazy stuff that comes along with being superheroes.http://www.minoractsofheroism.com/

A Zits Guide to Living With Your Teenager


Jerry Scott - 2010
    Parents themselves, Borgman and Scott have learned a thing or two along the way in their creative and family lives. The result is A Zits Guide to Living with Your Teenager.A combination of select Zits comic strips depicting the relationship between teenager Jeremy Duncan and his parents, Walt and Connie, and witty, knowing, and dead-on commentary from Borgman and Scott, A Zits Guide to Living with Your Teenager is an indispensable and entertaining manual for parents on the verge of having a teenager.Zits has twice been honored with the award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society and received the "Max and Moritz" award for Best International Comic Strip in 2000.

Assessment and Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families: Volume Two: Practitioners Share Their Most Effective Techniques


Liana Lowenstein - 2010
    Interventions are outlined for engaging, assessing, and treating children of all ages and their families. Activities address a range of issues including expression of feelings, social skills, self-esteem, and termination. A “must have” for mental health professionals seeking to add creative interventions to their repertoire.

Saying Is Believing: The Necessity of Testimony in Adolescent Spiritual Development


Amanda Hontz Drury - 2010
    . . (John 1:34) The idea of giving one's testimony often evokes summer church camps, evangelistic revivals, mission trips and baptisms. Like an eyewitness called to testify in a courtroom, sharing a testimony of faith is for specific people at special moments. But what if our view of testimony is all wrong? According to Amanda Drury, testimony is not merely about describing something that happened in the past. It is a practice that forms our present and future identity. Testimony changes us, and without it we risk having a stunted and stale faith. Drawing on work in sociology, psychology and theology, Drury develops an understanding of testimony as an essential practice for Christian spiritual formation, especially for adolescents who are in the process of developing their identity. Recent studies reveal a staggering inability for adolescents to articulate their religious beliefs. Now more than ever, churches need to recover the practice of testimony as an integral part of communal worship.