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Published USA, 2010 (3rd edition)
This popular book for teenagers targets the skills young people need to make sense of the world and their place in it. It helps them develop the refusal skills and positive attitudes needed to handle stress, peer pressure, substance abuse, sexual expression, cyber-bullying and coping with depression. Chapters are short and well set out, and the book is highly practical.

CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS
What Do You Want From Life?
Your Right To Be Yourself
Respect
What If I'm Different?
Assertiveness
When You Get So Mad
Refusal Skills

Pat Palmer is a psychologist and former director of the Assertiveness Training Institute of Denver, USA.
Paperback. 115 pages
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