self-destructive behavior

Learn about the five most self-destructive behaviors: substance abuse, risky sex, self-injury, eating disorders, and suicide. Causes, consequences, and treatment options are examined, and the final chapter provides healthy less-risky alternatives teens can take to accomplish their independence-seeking goals.

Provides information for teenagers about suicide and self-destructive behaviors.

In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.

Cody Gunner and Ali Daniels, both rodeo champions, struggle to overcome the hurts of the past and the uncertainty of the future when they meet and fall in love.

Follows a young billionaire on a limo ride through Manhattan where he meets participants in a spectrum of interesting events, such as a rap star's funeral, a presidential visit, and an anti-globalization rally.

Examines self-harm and suicide among teens, with information to help parents and educators recognize the warning signs, understand the causes, and aid teens in finding the help they need.

To relieve the pressures of caring for a brother with life-threatening food allergies, another who is a fussy baby, and parents who are at odds with one other, seventeen-year-old Jonah sets out to break every bone in his body in hopes of becoming stronger.

After spending five months in treatment, Skey still doesn't know why she hurt herself, but when she meets another boy her own age who has many of the same problems, she begins to understand her own destructive behavior.

Provides information for teens about suicide and self-destructive behaviors, examining the difference between healthy and unhealthy risk-taking, discussing substance abuse, risky relationships, self-injury, eating disorders, and suicide, and including resources for further study.