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Lesbian and Gay Youth
by Caitlin C. Ryan
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synopsis:
This is the first hands-on guide for providing health and mental health care to
lesbian and gay youth and young adults. Although it focuses on adolescents, the
information is relevant for any age group. In addition to specific guidelines
for care and for approaching such sensitive topics as sexual behavior, substance
abuse, and suicide, the book includes a comprehensive review of the literature
and the most up-to-date information for providers, researchers, educators, and
general readers alike. This book also includes the first guidelines (clinical
care protocols) on primary care, mental health care, HIV medical and
psychosocial care for lesbian and gay youth, and HIV counseling and testing for
adolescents. There is extensive discussion of the social and health effects of
stigmatized identity in the context of adolescent development.
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Girls stuff: a survival guide to growing up
By Elissa Haden Guest and Margaret Blackstone
Book description:
Girls approaching puberty have lots of questions: What should they do if their
period starts and they aren't prepared? Can they get rid of that zit before
tomorrow? Why do they sometimes feel cranky and scared? This comprehensive,
reassuring, and compassionate guide will help answer those questions, and many
more. Useful sections explain both the physical and psychological changes that
adolescence brings and how to cope with them. Written in a no-nonsense
style--with quotes from dozens of girls about their own experiences--this
essential resource provides practical information about the trials and
tribulations of puberty.
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Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: Expanded Third Edition : A Book for Teens on
Sex and Relationships
by Ruth Bell
Book description:
Changing Bodies, Changing Lives has helped hundreds of thousands of teenagers
make informed decisions about their lives, from questions about sex, love,
friendship, and how your body works to dealing with problems at school and home
and figuring out who you are. It's packed with illustrations, checklists, and
resources for the answers you really need. Best of all, it's filled with the
voices, poems, and cartoons from hundreds of other teenagers, who tell you what
makes them feel worried, angry, confused, sexy, happy, and, yes, even excited
and hopeful about their lives. (Check out the first two pages for a sample of
the quotes you'll find inside.)
Being a teenager is tough. With the information and the ideas inside this book,
you'll have what you need to make these years the best they can be.
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Growing Up Feeling Good
by Ellen Rosenberg
Book description:
Growing Up Feeling Good, the life handbook for kids, was inspired by
questions and issues shared with the author by more than a million preteens,
teens, parents and teacher at her school programs.
Growing Up Feeling Good is a warm, wise, down-to-earth reference that kids (and
the adults in their life) will turn to again and again for information, support
and guidance. This comprehensive life handbook addresses a broad range of
issues, including: friendship; popularity; peer pressure; growth and
development; sex; alcohol and other drugs; family feelings; divorce; getting
closer to parents; dealing with death; school; dealing with differences; having
a disability; and much more.
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Red Light Green Light: Preventing Teen Pregnancy
by Janet Ollila Colberg
Book description:
Teens and their parents can prevent teen pregnancy. Counseling
professionals can help. With a focus on vignettes, counseling protocol and a
warm approach to the spiritual depth of teens, Red Light, Green Light:
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Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent
Identities
by Janice M. Irvine
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synopsis:
This rich collection of essays presents a new vision of adolescent sexuality
shaped by a variety of social factors: race and ethnicity, gender, sexual
identity, physical ability, and cultural messages propagated in films, books,
and within families. The contributors consider the full range of cultural
influences that form a teenager's sexual identity and argue that education must
include more than its current overriding message of denial hinged on warnings of
HIV and AIDS infection and teenage pregnancy. Examining the sexual experiences,
feelings, and development of Asians, Latinos, African Americans, gay man and
lesbians, and disabled women, this book provides a new understanding of
adolescent sexuality that goes beyond the biological approach all too often
simplified as "surging hormones." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Adolescent Reproductive Health: Handbook for
the Health Professional
By Peggy B. Smith
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Promotion in Latino Populations: Case Studies
By Torres M. Idali
Editorial Reviews:
From Book News, Inc.
To guide future research into the sexual and reproductive health
education of this growing population, community health educators at the
U. of Massachusetts, Amherst introduce 19 case studies from both sides
of the border which appeared in the International Quarterly of Community
Health Education over the past decade. They represent
culturally-sensitive research into relevant cultural constructions, and
health promotion strategies through popular culture and community
participation.Copyright � 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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