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    Stress-Proof Your Teen: Helping Your Teen Manage Stress and Build Healthy Habits
    Stress-Proof Your Teen: Helping Your Teen Manage Stress and Build Healthy Habits
    Stress-Proof Your Teen: Helping Your Teen Manage Stress and Build Healthy Habits
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    Stress-Proof Your Teen: Helping Your Teen Manage Stress and Build Healthy Habits

    By Heath Dingwell

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    A practical guide to helping your teen tackle the tough issues and giving them the tools for success.

    Drinking. Being popular. Making good grades. Being thin and fit. Today's teens are constantly bombarded with issues from their classmates, friends, and the media. Trying to handle everything causes stress that can lead to anxiety, depression, alcohol abuse, eating disorders, and even suicidal thoughts. Don't be left in the dark. With fact-driven research and practical advice, Stress-Proof Your Teen addresses these problems to help you help your teens de-stress and live up to their full potential. Topics include:

    Do my teen's behaviors and eating habits signal a problem?

    Does my teen have a psychological disorder? How can I help them manage it?

    How do I know if my teen has been drinking or doing drugs? If so, what can I do?

    How can I help my teen maintain healthy dating relationships and friendships?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateJul 28, 2011
    ISBN9781596529281
    Stress-Proof Your Teen: Helping Your Teen Manage Stress and Build Healthy Habits

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      Stress-Proof Your Teen - Heath Dingwell

      Turner Publishing Company

      445 Park Avenue • 9th Floor

      New York, NY 10022

      200 4th Avenue North • Suite 950

      Nashville, Tennessee 37219

      www.turnerpublishing.com

      Stress-Proof Your Teen:

      Helping Your Teen Manage Stress and Build Healthy Habits

      Copyright © 2011 Heath Dingwell. All rights reserved.

      This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      This book is also available in gift book format as 46 Things You Can Do To Help Your Teen Manage Stress (978-1-59652-741-6)

      This book is meant for discussion purposes only. Before taking any action related to your child's mental or physical health, you should seek the advice of a medical or healthcare professional.

      Cover design by Mike Penticost

      ISBN: 978-1-59652-914-4

      Printed in the United States of America

      People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

      ~ GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

      Contents

      Introduction

      1. Peer pressure

      2. Low self-esteem

      3. School

      4. Bullying

      5. Divorce

      6. Parental dating and remarriage

      7. Family conflict

      8. Friends and dating

      9. Puberty

      10. Sex and sexuality

      11. Anxiety

      12. Extreme social phobia

      13. Depression

      14. Eating disorders

      15. Alcohol use

      16. Drug use

      17. Smoking

      18. Risky sexual behaviors

      19. Nonlethal self-injury

      20. Suicide

      21. Behavioral changes

      22. Mood changes

      23. Sleep patterns

      24. Eating patterns

      25. Physical changes

      26. Observations from others

      27. Listening

      28. Holding open conversations

      29. Suspending judgment

      30. Seeking counseling

      31. Seeking out medical help

      32. Seeking temporary hospitalization

      33. Using alternative and natural stress relievers

      34. Changing diet

      35. Building self-esteem

      36. Promoting positive thinking

      37. Teaching conflict resolution skills

      38. Creating a healthy home environment

      39. Modeling appropriate behavior

      40. Encouraging hobbies

      41. Encouraging exercise

      42. Volunteering

      43. Helping with learning and study strategies

      44. Adjusting parenting style

      45. Teaching time-management skills

      46. Using humor

      References

      Introduction

      Stress is a natural part of life. It is said that the only time you don't experience stress is when you're dead. That's not too comforting if you have a difficult time dealing with life's stresses.

           As I'm sure you remember, the teenage years can be especially stressful. The body is going through physical changes. Hormones are raging. Peer pressure tends to be at an all-time high. Older teenagers have to start deciding whether they want to go to college, a technical-vocational school, or straight into the workforce. Family finances may weigh on them. And the list goes on.

           Because you are reading this, I assume you are a concerned parent. Parents can help their teenagers find ways to better manage stress. This book will help provide you with a better understanding of the causes of teenage stress, common reactions, and how to help your teen cope. Consider this book as a resource or reference guide instead of something you need to read from cover to cover. That said, it certainly won't hurt to read all of the chapters, since they may help you realize your teen is experiencing stress that you have not noticed.

           If nothing else, it is important for you to read the chapters on listening, asking how to get help, and suspending judgment. If you don't communicate with your teenager about his life, then you won't be able to do the best job possible helping him deal with the stress. If you don't temporarily take a step back and try to look at things through his eyes, you may do more harm than good. This does not mean trying to be a friend instead of a parent. It does mean you need to be able to empathize with your teenager to help him make the best decisions possible, even if they are hard ones to make.

           I hope you will find this book to be a useful resource. Think of it as a starting point, and realize that you may need to do additional reading or seek out professional help in order to develop a comprehensive plan to help your teenager.

           Best wishes on your success—both you and your teenager deserve to live a life that is not dominated by stress.

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      Peer pressure

      Stressful events are all around us. It doesn't matter whether you're a child, teenager, or adult—we all face stress every day. However, for teenagers there are some sources of stress that tend to be particularly influential. One of them is peer pressure.

           Peer pressure may be the biggest source of stress in a teenager's life. That shouldn't be surprising; most teenagers want to be accepted by their peers. They want to fit in and be liked, whether by wearing a particular brand or style of clothing, participating in certain sports or afterschool activities, or even doing things we'd rather they not—smoking, drinking, and taking drugs—all to avoid the possibility of being excluded or bullied by others.

           Peer pressure can be good or bad. The phrase tends to focus on the negative: teenagers being coerced into doing things because their friends are doing them. However, that's not always going to be the case. Friends can use peer pressure to help reinforce positive norms, such as staying out of trouble, being polite, and doing well in school. Obviously that depends on who the friends are.

           There has been a great deal of research done on peer pressure. The authors of one study looked at the susceptibility of teens and the influence of peer pressure.i The findings indicated that teens who were more susceptible to peer pressure were more likely to engage in unhealthy behaviors. For example, they were more likely to have problems with alcohol and drugs compared to those adolescents not as susceptible. Results showed that future behaviors were impacted as well. Adolescents who were more susceptible to peer pressure were more likely to engage in problematic behaviors in the future. None of these findings should be too surprising. However, there were some other findings that you might not typically associate with this type of stress; for example, those who were more susceptible to peer pressure were more likely to develop symptoms of depression over time. Further, these kids were also

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