Coping and Social Skills with Cope and Steady (Other)

Teaching adolescence how to deal with stress is the object of this book. Adolescence is an incredibly stressful time for a teenager. There is peer pressure, parent pressure, and school pressure. Their peers expect them to keep up with styles, trends, and physical appearances. Their friends expect them to hate who they hate, fight who they fight, go where they go, and break rules they break; or be shunned. The parents expect the adolescents to follow their rules; follow trends that are twenty years old; respect authority while parents don't set examples; stay in a child's place and be like an adult at the same time; do not question parents, but share their feelings; and make up for all the mistakes, fears and problems that their parents had growing up. Their teachers expect them to understand without repeated explanation; to handle it themselves when they are being bullied; to get it or get out; to learn despite unimaginable problems in their lives; and to receive an education without nurturing. With all the pressure, stress is exactly what the average teenager experiences.
We tell kids to make good decisions, but we don't tell them how. This book is designed to give teenagers real examples of stress management and social skills. Written by a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor who also holds a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice and Counseling and Organizational Psychology.