Discusses the experience of becoming a teenage parent, exploring such areas as physical and emotional changes in the mother, basic child care, discipline, caregivers, and financial planning.
Discusses the meaning of codependency, in which one individual depends upon another for emotional fulfillment, and examines effective ways of dealing with this situation and associated problems.
Discusses different causes of family problems, including physical and emotional abuse, overprotection, depression or mental illness, and perfectionism, and suggests ways of dealing with each situation.
Discusses how to deal with different types of grief, in such situations as death, suicide, romantic break-up, and pregnancy. Includes fictional examples and lists of crisis centers and agencies to provide help.
Describes drug addiction, its symptoms and manifestations; the effect of an addict on his or her family; how to handle the pressures of living with an addict; and how to get help.