Health

• General health, hauroa and mental health
• Interpersonal and team skills
• Drugs and alcohol
• Sexuality education
• Food and nutrition

General health, hauroa and mental health

This is just a small selection of what the library has available:

• Like an apple a day: taking care of yourself for health and vitality by Kim Morrison & Fleur Whelligan
• Feel good: little changes to simplify your complicated life by Pamela Allardice
• Health and healing: natural therapies for total well-being by Mark Evans

Subject searches:

• Teenagers -- Health and hygiene
• Adolescent psychology
• Alternative medicine
• Health -- Nutritional aspects
• Stress management
• Stress (Psychology) -- Prevention
• Health behavior
• Hygiene
• Beauty, Personal

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Interpersonal and team skills

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  Dealing with difficult people: 24 lessons for bringing out the best in everyone by Rick Brinkman & Rick Kirschner
• Communicate or die: getting results through speaking and listening by Thomas D. Zweifel
• Networking: the art of making friends by Carole Stone

Subject searches:

• Interpersonal communication
• Leadership
• Group relations training
• Group games

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Drugs and alcohol

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  Drugs in focus: a guide to alcohol and other drugs
• A teen's guide to living drug-free by Bettie B. Youngs & Jennifer Leigh Youngs
• Over the influence: the harm reduction guide for managing drugs and alcohol by Patt Denning, Jeannie Little & Adina Glickman

Subject searches:

• Substance abuse
• Drug abuse
• Teenagers -- Drug use

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Sexuality education

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  The underground guide to teenage sexuality: an essential handbook for today's teens and parents by Michael J. Basso
• Sex explained: honest answers to your questions about guys & girls, your changing body, and what really happens during sex by Magali Clausener-Petit
• Sex, puberty and all that stuff: a guide to growing up by Jacqui Bailey
• Changing bodies, changing lives: a book for teens on sex and relationships by Ruth Bell & others
• Cool and celibate?: sex or no sex by David Bull

Subject searches:

• Sex instruction for teenagers
• Teenagers -- Sexual behavior
• Hygiene, Sexual

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Food and nutrition

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  Move more eat less: putting the squeeze on lifestyle disease by Elaine Rush

Subject searches:

• Nutrition

For more on this subject, check out the Nutrition section of the Home economics page

If you need more help, email the teens team.

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