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A booklet for young people about Mental Illness - ARAFMI

This booklet is targeted at 13-16-year-olds with a family member or friend who has been diagnosed with a mental illness. It helps young people to understand their loved ones' illness and their feelings towards this and offers tips on coping with it. The booklet provides information on schizophrenia, depression & bipolar disorder. This information includes facts, about common disorders, possible causes and treatments. The booklet gives clear and understandable explanations of issues using examples and common-sense analogies to help adolescents understand the illness that a mentally-ill relative or friend is experiencing.

Unzipped
Bronwyn Donaghy

Unzipped deals frankly and sympathetically with the crucial role that love and emotion play in every aspect of adolescent sexuality. At the same time it answers all the questions about sex that worry, confuse, intrigue and embarrass teenagers.

In language that everyone understands, this book offers accurate facts and honest discussions about puberty, virginity, adolescent relationships, making love, sexual intercourse (and all its consequences), sexual identity, homosexuality, sexually transmissible diseases, teenage pregnancy and safe (and not so safe sexual practice. And it's the young people themselves with their frank, frightening and funny stories about their own experiences of love and sex who breathe life into the facts.

Butterflies
Susanne Gervay

Coping with severe burns‚ the hospital and doctors is not easy when all you want to do is be a teenage girl.

Katherine was severely burnt in an accident when she was two years old. Now 17‚ she lives with her mother and 22 year-old sister. Their father left the family when they were very young. Katherine still needs regular skin grafts.

This is a moving and well-written tale of emotional and physical damage and Katherine's need to overcome her fears. It is a positive story of individual strength and family love. Whether a person is physically damaged or 'perfectly normal' life still has to be lived and the story of Katherine and her friends relates to all teenagers.

Endorsed by Dr Hugh Martin‚ President of the ANZ Burn Association and Head of Burn Unit‚ The Children's Hospital‚ Westmead.

Adolescent Health GP Resource Kit, 2nd Edition
Adolescent Health: Enhancing the skills of General Practitioners in caring for young people from culturally diverse backgrounds
Peter Chown, Dr Melissa Kang, Dr Lena Sanci, Verity Newnham and Clin Prof David Bennett AO

A collaboration between NSW CAAH and NSW Transcultural Mental Health Centre

Adolescent health problems are often complex and require a comprehensive, biopsychosocial approach. This Kit outlines the skills needed for working with the young person and their family, while addressing the developmental, cultural and environmental factors influencing their health status.

So Now You're a Grandparent
Kim Oates

After having your own children, becoming a grandparent is one of life's most exciting challenges. In the first Australian book of its type, renowned paediatrician and child advocate Dr Kim Oates, the former Chief Executive of the Children's Hospital at Westmead, explains how to negotiate the transition from parent to doting grandmother or grandfather.

So Now You're A Grandparent contains helpful suggestions on how to entertain grandchildren, ideas for outings, gifts and giving, safety advice and making preparations for overnight and longer stays; as well as more serious issues such as emergency situations, separation and divorce, and the death of a family member. With grandparents living longer, the book also includes invaluable advice on how people can maintain a healthy lifestyle so that they can keep up with their grandchildren.

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