The Teenage Body Book: Revised and Updated Edition

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The Teenage Body Book provides a vast source of useful information, advice and resources to help teenagers deal with many of the new, sometimes troubling situations that they face in their formative years. Winner of the American Library Association's Best Book for Young Adults Award, this ground-breaking guide is fully updated with everything every teenager (and parent of a teenager) needs to know about nutrition, health, fitness, emotions and sexuality.

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"This book should be not only in the library of every middle and high school, but also in the hands of every student and in health education classes. I cannot praise the substantial (300 pages) book enough!"
Science Books & Films Online, a critical review journal by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

"A comprehensive handbook... answering questions every teenager would want to know. Includes a panel of teens offering insight, insuring that this updated version of the classic Teenage Body Book is just as meaningful to today's teens. Recommended."
Ann M. Warner, Eastern Washington Book Review Council

"The easily digestible chapters address issues of emotions, healthy eating, exercise, stress, mind-expanding substances and getting help when you need it. With helpful illustrations and charts, McCoy and Wibbelsman present the truth about adolescence and all the changes it brings, without sugarcoating the message or talking down to its audience."
Rod Lott, Oklahoma Gazette

Author Bio

Kathy McCoy, Ph.D., is an award-winning author of more than a dozen books. She is a psychotherapist in private practice specializing in parent/teen communication and marital and family conflicts. She is a former assistant to the chancellor at the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles. A former columnist for Seventeen and former editor for 'TEEN, she has written many of articles for national magazines, newspapers and professional journals such as Readers' Digest, New York Times, Family Circle, and The Journal of Clinical Child Psychology. An online expert specializing in adolescent psychology, she has made numerous appearances on the Today Show and Oprah. Dr. McCoy writes a popular blog "Living Fully in Midlife and Beyond" and hosts the podcast "Living Fully at Any Age" and the video series "Brief Therapy." Charles Wibbelsman, M.D., is an award-winning author of four books and former "Dear Doctor" columnist for 'TEEN magazine as well as a nationally prominent adolescent medicine specialist. In addition to serving as chairman of the chiefs of adolescent medicine for the Permanente Medical Group of Northern California, he was chief of the Teenage Clinic at Kaiser Permanente, San Fransisco, and is a clinical professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Fransisco Medical School. He was also a member of the Committee on Adolescence for the American Academy of Pediatrics.