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        October 2020

        Birds in the Mind

        Life Stories from Adolescents with Mental Health Issues

        by Bernd Gomeringer,Jessica Sänger, UlrikeSünkel, Gottfried M.Barth, Max Leutner

        Mental health problems in children and adolescents are a taboo subject. “As ever, there are social misgivings”, says child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Robin Funke. “Many families find it tough when they first come to us. They feel this is a failure.” But what is it like living with depression, compulsive behaviour, anxiety and panic attacks, or with eating disorders, bulimia or anorexia? Schirm e. V., the friends association for child and adolescent psychiatry in Tübingen (Germany), asked young patients to share their stories. A moving book was created about living with mental health problems, about the dayto- day routine in psychiatric practice and the power of confidence.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2024

        Shakespeare's adolescents

        by Victoria Sparey

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2017

        Imperialism and juvenile literature

        by Jeffrey Richards

        Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this truer than in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. It both reflects popular attitudes, ideas and preconceptions and it generates support for selected views and opinions. This book examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times: in the theatre, "ethnic" shows, juvenile literature, education and the iconography of popular art. It seeks to examine in detail the articulation and diffusion of imperialism in the field of juvenile literature by stressing its pervasiveness across boundaries of class, nation and gender. It analyses the production, distribution and marketing of imperially-charged juvenile fiction, stressing the significance of the Victorians' discovery of adolescence, technological advance and educational reforms as the context of the great expansion of such literature. An overview of the phenomenon of Robinson Crusoe follows, tracing the process of its transformation into a classic text of imperialism and imperial masculinity for boys. The imperial commitment took to the air in the form of the heroic airmen of inter-war fiction. The book highlights that athleticism, imperialism and militarism become enmeshed at the public schools. It also explores the promotion of imperialism and imperialist role models in fiction for girls, particularly Girl Guide stories.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences

        Helping Children and Adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

        by Sigrun Schmidt-Traub

        Obsessive-compulsive disorders usually cause a high degree of suffering and can significantly impair the quality of life of the affected child or adolescent. The new edition of this guidebook describes the manifestations of obsessive thoughts and compulsive acts as well as the causative, triggering and perpetuating conditions, considering current findings in obsessive-compulsive research. Part I of the guide is aimed at adult readers and Part II at affected children and adolescents, who receive the most important information on obsessive-compulsive disorders in easy-to-understand language. The case studies make it comprehensible how an individual disorder model can be developed, how goals for coping with the compulsions can be derived from it, and finally how the treatment of the obsessive-compulsive disorder can be planned and carried out. The children and adolescents as well as their parents and educators receive concrete advice on how to help themselves and how to cope with compulsions. For:• affected children and adolescents• parents• teachers• therapists• relatives

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        2020

        Nutritional Practice Infants, Children, Adolescents

        Concise advisory knowledge

        by Dr. Ute Alexy, Dr. Annett Hilbig and Frauke Lang. Edited by Prof. Dr. Martin Smollich

        Anyone giving responsible advice about questions on nutrition must have sound expert knowledge. This must not only be scientifically reliable, but must at the same time be relevant and practicable in the individual context. The concept behind the book series Nutritional Practice is to provide the necessary translation of current research results and guidelines into recommendations suitable for everyday use. In accordance with this consistent, practical approach, the focus is on the individual person in his or her particular stage in their life. The present volume is based on the various stages in life between infancy and adolescence. It therefore covers all questions about nutrition in health and disease from the first day of life to young adulthood

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        Health & Personal Development

        Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents

        A Guide for Teens and Their Parents

        by Wewetzer, Gunilla; Bohus, Martin

        This guide, written for adolescents with borderline personality disorder and their parents, informs the readers about the symptoms, causes, treatment options, and especially the course of treatment of a Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A). Many examples make the content easy to grasp and detailed descriptions of different self-help exercises that can be done at home. The appendix also provides worksheets and useful contact information. This guide wants to encourage affected teens and their parents to seek help early on, as it has been proven that an early diagnosis and subsequent treatment positively influence the progression of the disorder.

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        Children's & young adult: general non-fiction
        2020

        Union of Soviet Things

        by Petro Yatsenko

        The soviet realia are not entirely clear to modern adolescents. Childhood in the late Soviet Union was not like it is now. Back in those days, everything was different and even scary to some point: a premonition of the nuclear war, propaganda, shortages, and confusing household items. The main characters of the book, a teenage Matvii and his father Petro, go to Lviv to visit their grandmother. There are still heaps of Soviet things in her ceiling cabinet and they are good at telling stories. Paretns are good at this as well, if you ask them well. The book gives a reason to talk about feelings of nostalgia and values.

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        Medicine

        Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety in Children and Adolescents

        A Treatment Manual for Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Specific Phobias, and Separation Anxiety

        by Sigrun Schmidt-Traub

        This title provides a semi-structured guide for an evidence-based cognitive-behavioral treatment of children and adolescents between the ages of 9 and 17 who suffer from panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobias, or separation anxiety.   It describes each step of the therapy in details, pays special attention to fear management, and enables the children to largely cope with the fears by themselves. The treatment modules can be used in the context of short-term therapy in individual or mixed individual and group setting. The manual allows for the therapy to be adjusted to the individual needs of the child or adolescent and some parts can be used also when working with younger children. Parents are trained to be co-therapists, supporting their children during the confrontational exercises but also insuring that parents do no unknowingly enable their child to maintain the anxiety disorder. All necessary worksheets can be found on the accompanying CD-ROM.   Target Group: child and adolescent psychotherapists and psychiatrists, students and teachers of psychology, pediatricians, psychotherapists, specialists for psychosomatic medicine, school psychologists

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        Children's & YA

        Changeling

        by Kotryna Zylė

        Changeling is a rebellious novel about creativity, youth and the raging intensity of teenage emotional life. The gripping story plunges the reader into the depths of a mystical town, a haunting and haunted place, where boundaries between the real and the otherworldly become dangerously blurred. A strange and electrifying tale of teenage disenchantment, Changeling is a work of stunning emotional force that captures the twisted complexities of family relationships and friendships, first love, and the quest for self-definition. Guided by short introductions to Baltic mythology, readers will find themselves in an urban landscape steeped in pagan and post-Soviet history.

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        Fiction
        May 2017 - May 2018

        Red Tile, Black Tile

        by Cao Wenxuan

        An excellent novel for adolescents written on the basis of the author’s adult novel The Red Tiles. Set against the background in a 1970s countryside in China, a group of adolescents pass through middle school in a house with a red tile roof, and then complete high school in a house with a black tile roof. Under the red tiles and black tiles of this beautiful countryside, they experience the hardships of life and grow up together. This novel can be regarded as the sequel to Straw House .

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        Schools
        September 2010

        Training Program for Adolescents - Development of Work and Social Behavior

        Aufbau von Arbeits- und Sozialverhalten

        by Franz Petermann, Ulrike Petermann

        This training program helps teenagers between the ages of 13 and 20 years to practice competent work and social behavior in their daily routines, reducing aggressive, antisocial and unsafe behavior and raising the teenagers’ self-confidence. The training can be used both in school and therapeutic settings, and may also be used as an additional tool in centers for vocational training and juvenile detention. The book includes a CD-Rom that contains all materials needed in the training program. Target Group: For psychologists, educators, school psychologists, counselors, child and adolescent psychologists and psychotherapists, and pedagogues working with teenagers with social behavioral issues.

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        Children's & YA
        October 2004

        Through the forest. Across the sky. On the water. Trilogy

        by Serhii Oksenyk

        Book 1. The Bald Man. When a twelve-year-old boy has to take on his young shoulders a burden of responsibility for others, when the whole forest is against him, when he is the only one to decide what is good and what is bad, every step of a dangerous journey might be the last… will the hero be able to reach the goal of his journey? Will he manage to save people and not to turn into a werewolf? Will it help him that he is a teenager or it will be an obstacle? Book 1. The Bald Man. When a twelve-year-old boy has to take on his young shoulders a burden of responsibility for others, when the whole forest is against him, when he is the only one to decide what is good and what is bad, every step of a dangerous journey might be the last… will the hero be able to reach the goal of his journey? Will he manage to save people and not to turn into a werewolf? Will it help him that he is a teenager or it will be an obstacle?Book 1. The Bald Man. When a twelve-year-old boy has to take on his young shoulders a burden of responsibility for others, when the whole forest is against him, when he is the only one to decide what is good and what is bad, every step of a dangerous journey might be the last… will the hero be able to reach the goal of his journey? Will he manage to save people and not to turn into a werewolf? Will it help him that he is a teenager or it will be an obstacle?Book 1. The Bald Man. When a twelve-year-old boy has to take on his young shoulders a burden of responsibility for others, when the whole forest is against him, when he is the only one to decide what is good and what is bad, every step of a dangerous journey might be the last… will the hero be able to reach the goal of his journey? Will he manage to save people and not to turn into a werewolf? Will it help him that he is a teenager or it will be an obstacle? Book II. LelyaCould be there anything more frightening than when The Bald Man and The Barefoot come to the village? Who steals magic stuff from kids? How to transform yourself into a flying old witch whose name is Baba Yaga? Where does the last way of the werewolves end? You will find the exciting answers to all these questionsin this new novel about the adventures of Lelya, The Bald Man and their friends in horrible world where almost nothing good and bright left…But there is no other world! Book III. AN ENGINEER. Looks like we have already found out what is that evil Force that wants to destroy all people and all living creatures on the Earth but nobody knows how to overcome it. The Bald Man proposed a plan, which looked so hopeless, terrifying, and adventurous that nobody liked it - nor Marichka, neither Lelya or The Beard Man, but yet all our heroes and even the rooster named Falkon agree to participate and to help. It is scary even to imagine how the story might end. And yet – where did this dark underground Force came from? Why is it so hostile to everything alive? The answers to these questions probably are hidden in the fate of another character, who called himself an Engineer. The last book of a trilogy “Through the forest. Across the sky. On the water” is as full of fantastic adventures and adventure fiction as the two previous ones: “The Bald Man” and “Lelya”.

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        July 2021

        International Division of the Young Communist Party 1·Iron Fists

        by Zhou Fei,Song Chunhua

        International Division of the Young Communist Party is a long novel about young people's growth created against the historical background of the establishment and development of the Young Communist International Division of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army during the Second Domestic Revolutionary War. The work is in four volumes, using a combination of reality and fiction, with the growth of fictional teenage heroes such as Yin Jie as the main line, interspersed with Chen Guang, Xiao Hua and other typical characters of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, to tell the glorious revolutionary history of this period. These teenage heroes were enthusiastic, resourceful, brave, decisive and righteous, and made outstanding contributions to the cause of national and ethnic liberation.

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        July 2021

        International Division of the Young Communist Party 2·Young Heros

        by Zhou Fei,Song Chunhua

        International Division of the Young Communist Party is a long novel about young people's growth created against the historical background of the establishment and development of the Young Communist International Division of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army during the Second Domestic Revolutionary War. The work is in four volumes, using a combination of reality and fiction, with the growth of fictional teenage heroes such as Yin Jie as the main line, interspersed with Chen Guang, Xiao Hua and other typical characters of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, to tell the glorious revolutionary history of this period. These teenage heroes were enthusiastic, resourceful, brave, decisive and righteous, and made outstanding contributions to the cause of national and ethnic liberation.

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        July 2021

        International Division of the Young Communist Party 3·Turning Iron to Steel

        by Zhou Fei,Song Chunhua

        International Division of the Young Communist Party is a long novel about young people's growth created against the historical background of the establishment and development of the Young Communist International Division of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army during the Second Domestic Revolutionary War. The work is in four volumes, using a combination of reality and fiction, with the growth of fictional teenage heroes such as Yin Jie as the main line, interspersed with Chen Guang, Xiao Hua and other typical characters of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, to tell the glorious revolutionary history of this period. These teenage heroes were enthusiastic, resourceful, brave, decisive and righteous, and made outstanding contributions to the cause of national and ethnic liberation.

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        July 2021

        International Division of the Young Communist Party 4·The Road to Glory

        by Zhou Fei,Song Chunhua

        International Division of the Young Communist Party is a long novel about young people's growth created against the historical background of the establishment and development of the Young Communist International Division of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army during the Second Domestic Revolutionary War. The work is in four volumes, using a combination of reality and fiction, with the growth of fictional teenage heroes such as Yin Jie as the main line, interspersed with Chen Guang, Xiao Hua and other typical characters of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, to tell the glorious revolutionary history of this period. These teenage heroes were enthusiastic, resourceful, brave, decisive and righteous, and made outstanding contributions to the cause of national and ethnic liberation.

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        November 2020

        Giftedness

        by Preckel, Franzis; Vock, Miriam

        In order to be able to adequately support intellectually gifted children and adolescents, timely diagnostics and sound counseling are indispensable. This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the theoretical basics of giftedness as well as of possibilities of diagnostics and support. Due to a clear structuring and didactic preparation of the contents, it is ideal for (self-)study and for professional development. New topics, such as gender differences or the support of gifted students in regular classes, have been included in the 2nd edition. Contents of the volume are various model concepts of giftedness as well as pioneering studies in this field. Furthermore, the development of giftedness as well as characteristics of gifted students are discussed. The authors discuss in detail the possibilities of diagnosing highly gifted children and adolescents and present concrete support opportunities in kindergarten and school.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2022

        Dealing with Borderline Personality Disorder

        by Auer, Anne Kristin von; Kaess, Michael

        Parents of adolescents with borderline symptoms face great emotional challenges. The adolescents have strong feelings and thus also trigger strong feelings in their caregivers. The family is massively burdened by suicidal and self-injurious behavior. Parents are confronted with fears, grief, self-blame and pain. How can parents contribute to their own well-being and stability? How can they learn to deal well with their own strong feelings? What strategies help them stay in good contact with their children and understand them better? How can parents maintain a kind view of their children and of themselves? This guidebook provides information about the manifestation, causes and treatment options of the disorder. It shows parents and other caregivers concrete strategies for dealing with the youngsters and their own emotional stress. These strategies, known as family skills, were developed especially for relatives of borderline patients. They are intended to help the relatives find a good way of dealing with themselves and their children. For:• those affected and their parents• teachers• child and adolescent psychotherapistsand psychiatrists• school psychologists• social workers

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