interpersonal relations in adolescence

Ruby Oliver, a moderately popular fifteen-year-old who has suddenly become a social pariah, begins seeing a psychiatrist and makes a list of all her past boyfriends in an attempt to understand where her life went wrong.

"CosmoGirl!" magazine presents dozens of reader questions about love and relationships, offering teenage girls advice on how to solve their most common guy dilemmas.

Explores the challenges teenagers face as they deal with friendship and popularity in high school, and offers teens advice on how to choose friends based on their own values rather than what the "in" crowd says.

Explains what is meant by "difficult people," why they behave the way they do, and how to deal with them.

Provides information to young people about relationships, looking at some of the conflicts that can arise between teens, their families, and their friends; and discusses different ways of solving problems. Includes a list of helpful organizations.

Teaches teenagers about dating violence, discussing what it is, how it can be identified, and what to do about it.

Outlines some of the differences between boys and girls, including physical and behavioral, and gives adolescent girls advice about boy-girl relationships.

Presents a look at dating, offers tips for starting to date and dating successfully, explaining how to tell the difference between a crush and love, and discussing sex, and break-ups.

Uses a question and answer format to teach teenage boys and girls about puberty and sex.

Twenty-six real teenagers describe their experiences with peer pressure, exclusion, teasing, bullying, and other forms of disrespect because of their ethnicity, sexual orientation, weight, clothing, interests, refusal to do drugs, and other reasons and discuss their struggles to be true to themselves.