Real Life Issues
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Real Life Issues are self-help guides offering information and advice on a range of key issues that matter to teenagers. This book defines the issue of self-harm, probes the reader's experience of it and offers ways of understanding and coping with it. Written in a down-to-earth style, this guide aims to demystify an area that teenagers find hard to talk about, providing honest facts, practical advice, inspirational quotes, positive reassurance, and guidance towards specialist help.The book highlights case studies of people who have experienced and come through the issue, containing an honest account of what it's like deal with. It also includes interesting statistics showing the number of people who are or who have been affected by it; an examination of the impact self-harm might have on education, home and work life; a short quiz to explore why someone might be self-harming and to examine the reader's desires and expectations. Most importantly the guide provides practical tips on coping and how to stay in control, advice and guidance on how to seek and where to go to for further help, and related issues it might be worth exploring.
This essential new self-help series offers down-to-earth information and advice on key issues that matter to teenagers. The guides are presented in a clear and accessible manner and will help the reader to understand the issue that they might be encountering and will provide tips on how they can deal with it. Full of case studies of people who have experienced and come through the issue that is being covered, each guide in this inspirational new series contains: an honest account of what it's like to experience the issue including interesting statistics showing the number of people who are or who have been affected by it; an examination of the impact the issue might have on education, home and work life; a short quiz to explore why an individual might be experiencing the issue and to probe the reader's desires and expectations; important tips on coping and how to stay in control; advice and guidance on how to seek and where to go to for further help; and related issues that might be worth exploring.