mental health

Using real-life accounts, describes some of the experiences faced by teenage girls who suffer from anorexia nervosa.

Offers parents, teachers, and other professionals checklists to help them identify girls with attention deficit, hyper-activity disorder and assist them in dealing with the emotional and physical issues they face.

A teacher of emotionally disturbed children tells of her work with a silent and withdrawn eight-year-old girl who is the possible victim of ritual abuse.

Discusses the relationship between drugs and mental illness and shows how drugs and addiction cause irrational behavior and promote personality disorders.

Presents a memoir of journalist and blogger Zo? Kessler, who at the age of forty-seven was diagnosed with ADHD. Kessler questions her life and her choices and wonders how her life might have been different if she had been diagnosed sooner.

Offers advice for soccer players on how to stay healthy and be successful, covering warming-up, advanced training techniques, injury prevention and treatment, mental preparation, how to deal with stress, nutrition, hydration and fluid intake, body image and eating disorders, time management, and other related topics; and includes a list of resources.

Examines the nature, causes, and treatment of self-mutilation and related disorders, as well as ways of helping someone who inflicts self-injuries.

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.

Argues that a cause of distorted body image and eating disorders is "father hunger, " a yearning felt by Western women whose fathers were emotionally absent; and presents ways for fathers and daughters to improve their relationships.