My Life, My Choices: Key Issues for Young Adults

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Paulist Press, 1997 - Psychology - 214 pages
"Ready-to-use workbook"

Based on an actual values-and-personal-development course proven and refined over nearly twenty years, My Life, My Choices is a workbook that invites teenagers to evaluate themselves and to share their ideas and feelings with their peers. This text honestly addresses issues critical to today's youth: friendship, loneliness, suicide, peer pressure, drugs and alcohol, sexuality, stress, happiness, success, my secret self, and more.

-- has an easy-to-use straightforward format

-- is written from the student's perspective

-- includes exercise worksheets and journal space

-- uses actual teenage answers as discussion spring-boards

-- has a broad ecumenical appeal

 

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Contents

IN SEARCH OF SELF
1
IDENTITY SHEET
4
PLUS AND MINUS IDs
7
MY SILENT SELF
11
MY ONE PHYSICAL ASPECT I WOULD CHANGE
15
MENTAL ATTITUDE TOWARD SELF
19
OVERCOMING HANDICAPS
23
TAKING CONTROL OF MY LIFE
27
KNOW THE LAW AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR USING ALCOHOL
107
GETTING BUSTED FOR DRUGS
108
HUMAN SEXUALITY
109
CONSIDER THE CONSEQUENCES
113
THE FACTS ABOUT STDs AND HIV
119
HUMAN SEXUALITY AND THE PROSPECT OF POVERTY
124
PLAN AHEAD FOR YOUR LIFE
127
A WHY TO LIVE
129

A PERSONAL CREST
31
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT SAY
33
ARE YOU IN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE?
37
STUDENT STRESS
43
STUDENT STRESS AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
44
HOW MUCH STRESS HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED?
47
A STUDENT EVALUATION
48
STRESS FROM WORRY FEAR AND REJECTION
51
GENERATION GAP
57
WHO STARTS THE ARGUMENTS AT HOME? WHY?
60
TRY TO UNDERSTAND YOUR PARENTS
65
THERE IS NO ONE TO LISTEN
71
LONELINESS A PART OF BEING HUMAN
77
FRIENDSHIP
81
SELECTED QUOTATIONS ON FRIENDSHIP
85
PEER PRESSURE
91
THE HARMFUL INFLUENCE OF PEER PRESSURE
95
THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL
101
HOW CAN SUICIDE BE PREVENTED?
135
A WHY TO LIVE
141
A WORD CAN MEAN SO MUCH
145
I LOVE YOU
149
IM SORRY
153
GIVING AND RECEIVING
159
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A COMPLIMENT?
163
WHAT DO OTHER PEOPLE DO WITH COMPLIMENTS?
167
HAPPINESS FOR ME
171
HAPPINESS FOR ME
175
THE JOYS OF LIVING
181
SAY YES TO LIFE
189
SUCCESS IN MY LIFE
195
THE PERSON I WILL MARRY
201
THE FINAL SHARING
207
BIBLIOGRAPHY
213
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