Everything teenagers need to know about nutrition, health, fitness, emotions, and sexuality.Some teen issues are timeless: self-consciousness and uncertainty over rapidly changing bodies, tumultuous feelings, and dramatically changing lives. Many parents remember vividly their own youthful struggles. But today’s teens face challenges and possibilities that their parents never imagined: cyberbullying, pressure to sext, new attitudes about sexual orientation and gender, and medical advances that have changed teen lives.
The Teenage Body Book provides a platform for teens (and their parents) to discuss dilemmas, doubts, and possibilities that face young people in the new century.
Completely revised and updated for the first generation of teens to be born in the 21st century,
The Teenage Body Book teaches teens how to:
-Overcome body image worries and maintain a healthy weight
-Make wise choices about drinking, smoking, and drugs
-Deal with depression, anxiety, and stress
-Avoid STDs, pregnancy and abusive relationships
-Safeguard devices and reputations in cyberspace
-Understand gender identity and sexual orientation
On sale: August 30, 2016
Page count: 320 Pages
ISBN: 9781578266432
KATHY MCCOY, PH.D., is a psychotherapist, an award-winning writer, and host of the podcast “Living Fully with Dr. Kathy McCoy”. She is a former editor of
’TEEN Magazine, has written for many national publications, and, as an expert on teen psychology and health, has appeared frequently on national television programs such as
The Today Show and
Oprah.
CHARLES WIBBELSMAN, M.D., an adolescent medicine specialist, is a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School and is on the board of directors of Larkin Street Youth Services. For many years, he was Chairman of the Chiefs of Adolescent Medicine for the Permanente Medical Group of Northern California.
"This book should be not only in the library of every middle and high school, but also in the hands of every student and in health education classes. I cannot praise the substantial (300 pages) book enough!"
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Science Books & Films Online, a critical review journal by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
"A comprehensive handbook... answering questions every teenager would want to know. Includes a panel of teens offering insight, insuring that this updated version of the classic
Teenage Body Book is just as meaningful to today's teens. Recommended."
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Ann M. Warner, Eastern Washington Book Review Council"The easily digestible chapters address issues of emotions, healthy eating, exercise, stress, mind-expanding substances and getting help when you need it. With helpful illustrations and charts, McCoy and Wibbelsman present the truth about adolescence and all the changes it brings, without sugarcoating the message or talking down to its audience."
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Rod Lott, Oklahoma Gazette
