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Books in Life Skills: Contemporary Issues series

  • Making Tough Decisions: Working Through Hard Choices

    Robert Wandberg

    Paperback (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Explains a six-step method for making decisions and provides tips on setting goals, dreaming, and planning for the future.
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  • Creative Problem Solving: What's a Better Way?

    Robert Wandberg

    Paperback (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Explores problem solving and creative thinking in relation to teen health. Looks at a formula for gaining confidence, and examines advertising and its influence on health behaviors. Several self-assessments included.
  • Peer Mediation: Agreeing on Solutions

    Robert Wandberg

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2001)
    Defines peer mediation in practical terms and shows how it helps people get along. Describes the peer mediation process, including an example of a peer mediation session between two students. Also explains how to move from being a mediator to becoming a
  • Conflict Resolution: Communication, Cooperation, Compromise

    Robert Wandberg

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Defines conflict, some of its effects, and how teenagers can deal with conflict, including violence, rape, and murder. Includes self-assessments to help teenagers judge how well they deal with conflict.
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  • Change: Making the Best of It

    Robert Wandberg

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Describes what change is, and how it affects teenagers, Suggests ways to deal with change, including several self-assessments to help teenagers judge how well they can cope with change.
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  • Self-Direction: Taking Positive Risks, Following Your Dreams

    Robert Wandberg

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Wandberg, Robert
  • Self-Direction: Taking Positive Risks, Following Your Dreams

    Robert Wandberg

    Hardcover (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Wandberg, Robert
  • Creative Problem Solving: What's a Better Way?

    Robert Wandberg

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Explores problem solving and creative thinking in relation to teen health. Looks at a formula for gaining confidence, and examines advertising and its influence on health behaviors. Several self-assessments included.
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  • Resilience: Bouncing Off, Bouncing Back

    Robert Wandberg

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Describes resilience in teenagers and the forty assets teenagers need to survive and thrive. Includes self-assessments for teens to rate their own resilience.
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  • Resilience: Bouncing Off, Bouncing Back

    Robert Wandberg

    Paperback (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Describes resilience in teenagers and the forty assets teenagers need to survive and thrive. Includes self-assessments for teens to rate their own resilience.
  • Tolerance: Celebrating Differences

    Robert Wandberg

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2001)
    Describes tolerance and its importance in today's society. Discusses various aspects of tolerance, intolerance, and discrimination, including hate groups and hate crimes. Offers many how-to suggestions for increasing tolerance in oneself and in others.
  • Change: Making the Best of It

    Robert Wandberg

    Paperback (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Describes what change is, and how it affects teenagers, Suggests ways to deal with change, including several self-assessments to help teenagers judge how well they can cope with change.