Product Description: Practical information for teens and their families. The teen years are some of the most demanding. Even the most well-adjusted youth struggles with the intense daily challenges of friends, family, school, and wider society. These problems pale in comparison to those faced by teenagers with a handicap or chronic illness such as spina bifida or cystic fibrosis...read more

Product Description: Living in the second largest country in the world, Canadian teens are spread across 10 provinces and three territories. They come of age in a diverse and multicultural nation, but they share many common experiences beyond cold winters and a love of hockey...read more

Product Description: The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability is a long-overdue self-help sex guide for the millions of people living with disabilities and chronic pain and illness. For sufferers of ailments from chronic fatigue syndrome and spinal cord injury to multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, and others, the book provides encouragement, support, and expert information on sex positions, orgasm, and sex toys...read more

Discusses the signs and symptoms of depression in teenagers, explains current medical approaches to treatment, and explores related issues, including substance abuse and medical and psychiatric disorders. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Teen depression is on the rise in North America. According to the statistics, one teen in every high school classroom is probably suffering from a major depression. These teens come from all social, economic and cultural backgrounds - from anyone`s family or community...read more

Explores the physical and emotional stresses faced by overweight children, discussing the impact of heredity, diet, exercise, emotions, and puberty on weight while offering advice on increasing self esteem and physical activity.

Product Description: An invaluable resource, Mothering Teens offers support, information and encouragement to those who are mothering teenagers, and it provides answers to some of the most difficult parenting questions that arise as children grow through adolescence...read more

Product Description: Practical information for teens and their families. Praise for the previous edition: This very unusual book...is loaded with the kind of information disabled teens often need but may be too embarrassed to ask for. --Booklist The teen years are some of the most demanding...read more