Facing Change: Falling Apart and Coming Together Again in the Teen Years

This informative book by Donna O'Toole gets straight to the heart of its title. It helps teens understand their losses and discover creative coping strategies to deal with them. Facing Change is unique in that all kinds of losses experienced by teenagers are listed and validated. As the author suggests, no one but the person experiencing a loss can ever know just what unique meaning and importance any particular loss holds. Topics Include: • Recognizing and Understanding Loss, • Common Ways Loss Is Experienced, • Creative Coping Choices, • Charting, Finding and Using A Support 'System,' • Things You Can Do To Help Yourself Through Grief, • Finding and Using Help From Others, • Bouncing Back - The Art of Growing Through Grief, • Resiliency - The Art of Grieving and Growing, • Coping Strategies That Work, • 75 Ways To Help Yourself, • How to Know You're Making Progress.