Personal Living Skills Series: Juvenile Student Workbooks

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Taking Responsibity and Control   Product Code: JS 9801  At-risk juveniles often struggle to gain their independence from negative authority figures and poor peer influence, but it is not an easy task. The juvenile version of Taking Responsibility and Control helps at-risk juveniles discover that there are many ways they can exercise self-control and take responsibility for their attitudes and actions. Taking Responsibility and Control shows young people why it is important to take control of their lives. It explains how they can benefit from their efforts. Students are shown specific ways to change and are challenged to begin to take responsibility and control, regardless of their past or present situation. Because it is a significant problem for many students, there is a special section on gaining control of anger.   Product content: 108 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	Tools for Successful Living   Product Code: JS 9802  At-risk youth often believe that learning is too hard for them. Past school experiences have reinforced those negative self-images. This workbook is designed to reprogram those negative impressions of learning by giving students tools to make learning easier and faster. Students who use the tools will develop skills to help them learn how to learn, and attitudes that will  improve their chances for success. No matter what students have done in the past, or where they are now, they can live successfully using the concepts covered in Tools for Successful Living.   Product content: 78 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
Improving Self-Esteem   Product Code: JS 9803  Positive self-esteem is a major issue for all youth, but an expecially difficult one for at-risk students. Self-esteem is the attitude a person has about him or herself. Often, hard-to-reach students have learned attitudes of poor self-esteem. Those attitudes have been reinforced by poor personal choices and environmental circumstances. But attitudes can be unlearned or changed. Improving Self-Esteem introduces the seven basic building blocks of self-esteem: Self-acceptance Self-confidence Self-respect Self-determination Self-discipline Self-fulfillment Sense of humor At-risk youth use specific steps in the Improving Self-Esteem workbook to improve each of the building blocks and to change their attitudes of poor self-esteem. Product content: 97 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	Taking Care of Yourself   Product Code: JS 9804  At-risk youth often have an unhealthy perception that they are invincible. Obesity, smoking, substance abuse, exposure to AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and teen suicides are symptoms of a pre-teen and teen population who have made poor or uninformed choices about healthy life styles. This workbook introduces the important and often ignored concept of total health by describing five health areas: Physical Mental Emotional Social Spiritual The workbook uses examples such as AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, and depression to help students understand the importance of physical and mental health. Smoking, alcohol, and drug abuse receive special attention, including proven action plans for stopping these abuses. Using step-by-step worksheets, students are motivated to improve their health. Product content: 94 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
Making Spare Time Good Time   Product Code: JS 9805  At-risk youth often fill their spare time with activities that are unhealthy, unproductive, or even illegal. In many cases, they have had no role models to help them find acceptable ways to spend free time. Making Spare Time Good Time defines recreation, listing over three-hundred sports, hobbies, and recreational activities. The workbook shows students the advantages of participating in activities they like. The interactive format helps students identify their interests and focus on activities that are affordable, satisfying, and productive.   Product content: 72 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	Developing Your Values   Product Code: JS 9806  At-risk youth often have values that are counterproductive and contrary to those acceptable in society. But values are learned, and they can be unlearned. The questions is, how to we teach to change negative values?    One way is by providing real life situations for students to discuss. Developing Your Values contains stories about cults, gangs, prejudice, sexual, and racial discrimination so students understand their inherent dangers. Students study guilt, avoiding excessive guilt, and working through guilt feelings. Developing Your Values introduces students to the positive benefits of successful living through honesty, impulse control, and empathy.   When students improve their values, they improve their odds for success. Developing Your Values explains both "why" and "how" principles, standards of behavior, and laws are formed. After looking at religious and social sources of values, students learn the advantages and reasons for choosing positive behaviors.   Product content: 91 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
Set of Six: Juvenile Personal Living Series Student Workbooks   Product Code: JS 9000  The complete set of six Juvenile Personal Living Skills Series Student Workbooks contains the following: Taking Responsibility and Control Tools for Successful Living Improving Self-Esteem Taking Care of Yourself Making Spare Time Good Time Developing Your Values Product content: 6 books, 540 pages   Price: $750.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty

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