WiseTeenz

WiseTeenz
Author: Suleika Just-Buddy Michel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781644840412

This faith-based book, WiseTeenz, written by expert OBGYN Dr. Suleika Michel, will enlighten, empower and educate teen girls with information about their temples. In this day and age of open access to the Internet and social media, the detailed, age-appropriate, and accurate information on these pages will provide answers to many questions teen girls may have about their bodies. WiseTeenz provides information that encourages girls to not only make informed choices about self-care and maintenance but also to realize that mind, body, spirit, and soul are interconnected. This awareness allows teen girls to become healthy young women capable of handling medical issues in the most holistic way. The topics covered are intended to enlighten the reading audience about the proper functioning of body parts and systems as well as some of the ramifications of inappropriate care. If you are looking for a resource to get a conversation started about pertinent female issues, WiseTeenz should be your first choice.

Sex Has a Price Tag

Sex Has a Price Tag
Author: Pam Stenzel
Publisher: Zondervan/Youth Specialties
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0310873746

“If I only had known what could happen, I would have made a different choice!!!”A decade in a crisis pregnancy center, counseling both Christian and non-Christian teens...speaking to millions of students through the years...counseling and answering the letters of thousands of teens...Pam Stenzel has heard this statement over and over and over again. From kids like you.Sex Has a Price Tag rejoices that, indeed, sex is glorious. Sex is God-given. But sex outside of God’s boundary is behavior that has far-reaching consequences. Outside a monogamous marriage it has a price tag of incalculable costs.Here are real testimonies, encouragement, and advice about:abstinence vs consequencesBiblical definitions and examplesphysical diseases and emotional disasterexamination of urgestaboo subjects including masturbationadvice on where to go for helpavoiding sexual activity and awkward situationsdealing with friends, parents...and your self-respectSex Has a Price Tag is brutally frank but totally sympathetic, written to girls and guys. Here are searing personal testimonies, medical stats, and practical solutions; encouragement in the form of Biblical examples, support and networking options, innovative alternatives to dating situations, and creating journaling. There are sources and links for seeking help. Sex Has a Price Tag is life-affirming, and is a life-saver.

Substance Abuse, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America

Substance Abuse, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America
Author: David R Rosenberg
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 032370879X

Consulting Editor, Dr. Bonita Stanton has worked closely with Guest Editors Drs. David R. Rosenberg and Leslie H. Lundahl to create a current issue devoted to substance abuse in children. Expert authors have written clinical review articles with the goal of providing the pediatrician with the latest information on substances and addiction medicine. The first half of the issue focuses on the following substances: Nicotine Use Disorders in Adolescents; Alcohol Use Disorders in Adolescents; Cannabis Use and Consequences; Medical and Non-Medical Use of Opiates; Stimulant Use and Cognitive Enhancement; and Club Drugs. The second half of the issue focuses on special topics important to pediatricians: Contingency Management for Substance Use Disorders; Behavioral Addictions: Gambling, Gaming, Internet; Juvenile Drug Court: Novel Approach to Treatment; Computer-Assisted Approaches to Substance Abuse Treatment; Co-Morbid Substance Use and Other Psychiatric Disorders; and Drug Use in Pregnant Teens. Readers will come away with the information they need to stay current on this changing field and to improve patient outcomes.

Twitter: The Comic (The Book)

Twitter: The Comic (The Book)
Author: Mike Rosenthal
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-08-19
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1452139814

From a simple, brilliant premise—to create comics from the weirdest and funniest tweets around—artist Mike Rosenthal (@VectorBelly) has crafted a hilariously surreal world that has attracted over a million followers to his blog Twitter: The Comic. Each carefully curated tweet delivers concentrated humor in the language of the Internet, reproduced in the comics with typos and all. As envisioned by Rosenthal, each comes to life through a bizarrely recognizable cast of bassoon-playing cops, sarcastic teens, bear MDs, clueless dads, potential insect overlords, and more. Featuring more than 120 of these comics, including dozens unique to this book, Twitter: The Comic (The Book) is a dementedly funny vision of our strange online age.

Climate Schools

Climate Schools
Author: Laura Vogl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2012
Genre: Drug abuse
ISBN: 9780733431623

Attachment Theory and Research

Attachment Theory and Research
Author: Jeffry A. Simpson
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2015-02-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462518737

This volume showcases the latest theoretical and empirical work from some of the top scholars in attachment. Extending classic themes and describing important new applications, the book examines several ways in which attachment processes help explain how people think, feel, and behave in different situations and at different stages in the life cycle. Topics include the effects of early experiences on adult relationships; new developments in neuroscience and genetics; attachment orientations and parenting; connections between attachment and psychopathology, as well as health outcomes; and the relationship of attachment theory and processes to clinical interventions.

Narrative-Based Primary Care

Narrative-Based Primary Care
Author: John Launer
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2017-09-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1315347970

This book provides an important contribution to the new and growing field of ‘narrative-based medicine’. It specifically addresses the largest area of medical activity, primary care. It provides both a theoretical framework and practical skills for dealing with individual consultations, family work, clinical supervision and teamwork, and offers a comprehensive approach to the whole range of work in primary care. Using a wide range of clinical examples, it shows how professionals in primary care can help clarify patients’ existing stories, and elucidate new stories. It can be used as a training resource and includes exercises and summaries of key points to consider. It is based on, and describes, an established evaluated training method, and is of immediate and significant practical use to readers. It is essential reading for general practitioners, practice nurses and others in the primary care team, psychologists, family therapists, counsellors and other professionals attached to primary care. GP trainers, tutors and course organisers will find it a valuable educational tool. Professionals elsewhere in primary care such as pharmacists, dentists and optometrists, and academics in medical sociology and medical anthropology will also find it very useful.

Marital Conflict and Children

Marital Conflict and Children
Author: E. Mark Cummings
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462503292

From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable than others, and what can be done to help. It is a state-of-the-science follow-up to the authors' seminal earlier work, Children and Marital Conflict: The Impact of Family Dispute and Resolution. The volume presents a new conceptual framework that draws on current knowledge about family processes; parenting; attachment; and children's emotional, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral development. Innovative research methods are explained and promising directions for clinical practice with children and families are discussed.

It's Not about the Burqa

It's Not about the Burqa
Author: Mariam Khan
Publisher: Picador
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1509886427

Seventeen Muslim women speaking frankly about the hijab and wavering faith, about love and divorce, about feminism, queer identity, sex, and the twin threats of a disapproving community and a racist country. With a mix of British and international women writers