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Recommended Readings
Stress
- http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/surviving-your-childs-adolescence/200906/procrastination-how-adolescents-encourage-stress
- http://www.nasponline.org/families/stress.pdf
- http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/youthdevelopment/DA3083.html
Communication
- http://www.aap.org/publiced/BR_Parenting_TeenTips.htm
- http://www.athealth.com/consumer/disorders/communicationteens.html
- http://www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/adolescence/part6.html
Cyberbullying
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43024614
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36688350/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/
Depression & Suicide
- http://powerwall.msnbc.msn.com/politics/facebook-use-link-to-teen-depression-1684409.story
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34811472/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/
- http://www.erikaslighthouse.org/
Substance Abuse
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41313491/ns/health-mental_health/
- http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/teen-drinking/MY00521.html?iref=storysearch
Privileged Youth
- The Price of Privilege by Madeline Levine, Ph.D.
- How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
- Pg 8: “Indulged, coddled, pressured, and micromanaged on the outside, my young patients appeared to be inadvertently deprived of the opportunity to develop an inside.”
- Pg 9: “Cutting allowed her angry feelings to seep out in a measured way rather than to explode.”
Self-harming behaviors
- http://pediatrics.about.com/od/mentalhealth/a/610_cutting.htm
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/11/us-embedding-teenagers-idUSTRE74A0BX20110511
- http://psychcentral.com/lib/2009/teens-who-self-harm/
- http://www.cyh.com/healthtopics/healthtopicdetails.aspx?p=243&np=293&id=2464
- http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20021121/self-injury-no-longer-rare-among-teens
- Adolescents and self cutting (self harm) — Information for Parents
- Helping adolescents who self-mutilate — Parental Descriptions
- The Cutting Edge — nonsuicidal self injury in adolescents – Fact Sheet
Teens and summer jobs
- http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/549/should_your_teen_work_this_summer.html?cat=25
- http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/732003/common_summer_jobs_for_teens_in_chicago.html?cat=31
- http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/241963/summer_jobs_for_your_teen_or_preteen.html?cat=25
- http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/354369/beyond_babysitting_alternative_summer.html?cat=25