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The percentage of American teens struggling with mental health concerns is rising every year. Learning to recognize the signs of both everyday stress and serious mood disorders, such as anxiety and depression, can help teens respond in healthy and constructive ways. This book examines some of the most well-studied and successful ways to maintain positive mental health.
For most teens, numerous financial responsibilities are on the horizon. This can include college expenses, renting an apartment, buying a car, paying taxes, and even saving for retirement. How teens navigate these financial matters can profoundly shape their lives, which is why it is essential that they master personal finance basics early. This book takes a very practical look at the ins and outs of budgeting, saving, investing, credit, and debt.
Preparing for adult life can feel overwhelming, but it can also be exciting to get ready for a future full of possibilities. Learning about life after graduationCwhether that means college, a vocational or technical school, work, or something elseCcan help young people feel prepared. So can learning about adult responsibilities like managing money, living with roommates, and maintaining a living space.
Generation Z is sometimes referred to as Generation Side Hustle because so many are using their skills and creativity to launch side gigs. Teen Guide to Side Gigs: Working in the New Economy provides a roadmap to the best opportunities and provides examples on ways to use social media and other tools to earn money on the side.
Teen Guide to Sports introduces the worlds of basketball, hockey, football, soccer, and baseball to high school athletes. Readers will learn about tryouts, exercises and drills, what coaches are looking for in players, and what life is like in collegiate and professional sports.
A lot of people believe in ghosts; many of them believe they can also communicate with the spirits of the dead. Others believe fortune tellers can predict the future, witches cast magical spells and that Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, vampires, and other eerie creatures are real. PeopleÎs fascination with the strange and spooky shows how a belief in the supernatural has become part of the culture of the modern world.
Everyone wants to be happy, but what does it really mean to be happy? And what must we do to achieve it? This book introduces teens to modern philosophies and scientific research on happiness and helps them consider how to find happiness in their own lives.
Today's teens face and are expected to deal with a wide array of personal, social, and other issues involving home-life, school, dating, major life transitions, finances, social responsibility. These guides help motivate, inform and teach them. These books include many fully documented quotes from teens as well as an annotated list of resources.
Teen Health and Safety explores important issues that teens face today. Readers will explore the underlying causes of these issues, the ways in which the issues affect teens, and strategies teens can use to protect themselves or get help if they encounter the issues in their own lives. Each volume includes diagrams to enhance readers' understanding of complex concepts, source notes, and an annotated bibliography to facilitate deeper research.
This book explores juvenile justice in the United States, providing an overview of the mechanics of the legal system, detention, reform school, prison, alternatives to incarceration, re-entry and aftercare, and future trends. The book also analyzes the racial and socioeconomic factors that contribute to youth crime/detention and presents evidence-based practices that support trends in juvenile justice reform.