Young People In Focus

TEENAGERS IN TROUBLE: Skills for Parents
DVD/VIDEO PARENTS' PACK
John Coleman, Young People in Focus and Dawson Films

This best selling film and accompanying book is for all parents with troublesome teenagers. Using acted scenarios and involving a group of parents, issues raised include dealing with anger and other strong feelings, communication, boundaries, negotiation, parent disagreement, and the influence of peers and neighbourhood on drugs and other behaviours.

If you are an organisation, we suggest you purchase our Facilitator's Pack Code: TTFD (DVD). This includes a 32 page Facilitators' Guide to explain how to run an effective parenting course on the issues above. Separate Parents' Handbooks are available at £3.50 each to enable everyone on the course to take a copy awy with them. Code: TITSB.

Contents: 45 minute film plus a Parents' Handbook.

Free postage & packing for parents, please state when ordering.

WHERE TO LOOK FOR HELP
(2nd edition)

A guide for parents and carers of young people by Debi Roker, Young People in Focus

Funded by Dept for Children, Schools and Families

This Guide is aimed at all parents and carers of young people, as well as the professionals that support them. The Guide includes sections on: what type of information or support do parents want?; a list of all the main helping organisations, divided into key categories; a list of organisations providing support to young people - this is for the many parents who want information for their son or daughter as well as for themselves.

SBN: 978 1 871504 866

GOING TO SECONDARY SCHOOL:
A Guide for Parents

Debi Roker and Julie Shepherd
Young People in Focus, 2006

Guide for parents with children in the transition stage between primary and secondary school. It covers: moving to secondary school; helping your child prepare; new words and phrases; managing homework; children's and parents' views and experiences; dealing with bullying; books and materials for children and parents.

ISBN 978 1 871504 804

PARENTING TEENAGERS
Information and Support for Disabled

Parents of Teenagers by Simone Baker, Disabled Parents Network & Julie Shepherd and Debi Roker Young People in Focus, 2006

Funded by the Department of Education and Skills (DfES)

This guide was produced in collaboration with Disabled Parents Network. It contains articles, information, and resources for people with disabilities, who are parents of teenagers. Most of the articles are written by parents involved in DPN and the newsletter is aimed at disabled parents and practitioners working with parents.

12pp

ISBN: 978-1 871504 774

TALKING ABOUT ALCOHOL

Information and support for the parents of young people by Louise Cox, Nigel Sherriff, Lester Coleman and Debi Roker, Young People in Focus, 2006

Funded by the Alcohol Education and Research Council (AERC)

This guide aims to help young people and parents to communicate effectively about alcohol, in order to keep young people safe. It is based on research undertaken by Young People in Focus researchers during 2005. It is designed to provide information for parents, and to share parents' worries, ideas and 'hints and tips'. It will also be of use for practitioners working with the parents of young people.

ISBN: 978 1 871504 798

EATING DISORDER
The Path to Recovery
Dr Kate Middleton, Lion Hudson plc

This accessible and practical book helps readers to come to a full understanding of eating disorders and the various stages involved in recovery. It is essential reading for sufferers, their family and friends and also the interested reader. Writing from her experience of working with sufferers and drawing extensively on case histories, Dr Middleton explains what eating disorders are and why we develop them. Crucially, she offers guidance for setting out on the road to recovery.

GRIEF ENCOUNTER
Grief Encounter Project, by Shelley Gilbert

NEW

Grief encounter is a workbook designed to encourage conversations about death between children and adults.

Extremely well written, accessible in its language and approach, with strong appeal to ordinary parents and children faced with bereavement. There is nothing scary about this book; it is hands-on, user-friendly and full of useful ideas to help a child understand his or her feelings. It will also help the parent/guardian to understand the child and find a way to bring comfort together. I wish I had been given the guidance of a book like this, to show me a way to open up and share my feelings of bereavement as a child.

Helen Levene, Editor Puffin Books.

The Grief Encounter Project supply bereaved families with a free copy of this workbook please contact them if this applies to you wwww.griefencounter.com

THE PARENTALK GUIDE TO SECONDARY SCHOOL
Catherine Ellbery with Nick Diamond, Hodder 2006

From leaving the harbour of primary school to the moment they enter the big wide world, this book contains everything your child needs to make it a great - and enjoyable - experience. It covers: how to go about finding a secondary school; how to help your child make the transition; how to navigate your way through the secondary school system; how to approach the big issues of drink, drugs, sex and bullying; how to help your child to make wise career choice.

The Parenttalk Guide to the Teenage Years
By Steve Chalke, Hodder & Stoughton 1999

This book is packed full of practical, down to earth information and advice on how to make the most of all the important stages of your child as they grow up, aimed at parents with children aged 13 to 18 years.

Steve Chalke is a TV presenter and father of four and founding of Parenttalk which covers all parenting and family issues.

HOW TO TALK SO TEENS WILL LISTEN & LISTEN SO TEENS WILL TALK
Adele Faber & Elaine Mazllish 2006

Concentrating on the teenage years, this book covers topics ranging from curfews and cliques to sex and drugs. The authors give parents and teens the tools they need to safely navigate those stormy years. Written in a practical, sensible and accessible style, and reinforced with cartoons and reminder pages. This book offers innovative suggestions that can be put into immediate action.

"In a practical, down to earth way it will refresh and recharge parents as they face new challenges from today's teenagers." (Michael Quinn, Family Caring Trust)