Esherick, Joan

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.

This book offers teens a primer on stress with easy-to-understand statistics, and real-life case studies to help teens understand the causes and effects of stress and give them healthy ways to manage stress in their lives.

Provides information for teenagers about sleep deprivation.

Describes how a psychiatric drug is approved for use by the FDA, as well as some historical background on the agency.

Discusses a number of issues that family members face when living with someone who has had a brain injury.

Examines sleep disorders, their symptoms and manifestations, how they can be controlled and treated, and what it is like to live with a sleep disorder.

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

Examines why teens smoke, the consequences of smoking, the facts about smoking, chewing, and sniffing, and includes statistics, and case studies.

Describes sleep disorders and their treatments.