Bully Prevention Tips for Teens: 18 Powerful Ways to Protect Yourself Through High School

By Stephanie R. Bien and Yvonne Brooks

While bullying is not a new social issue, only in recent years has it begun to receive more serious attention. We now know it to be a tremendous problem, leading a wide range of responses from teens, all the way up to suicide or homicide.
In Bully Prevention Tips for Teens authors Yvonne Brooks and Stephanie R. Bien present eighteen powerful tips to help teens prepare mentally, emotionally, and physically to stand their ground against bullies. A vast majority of people deal with the struggle of self-esteem issues, self-doubt, and negative thoughts. The key is to acquire the tools to help you cope and get back on track. Brooks and Bien offer teens, teachers, counselors, social workers, mentors, and parents strategies to help them heal and grow in the face of bullying. It seeks to help teens refuse to be victims of negative thoughts, emotions, people, and situations through commitment and character development.
This guide provides teenagers and the adults around them with resources and advice to assist them in dealing with the issue of bullying.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9781532007682

Stephanie R. Bien

Yvonne Brooks is the executive director of the Brooks & Brooks Foundation, a nonprofit organization that serves, educates, and empowers families toward living with purpose. She has over twenty-five years of experience as a parenting expert and is the creator of Parenting with Love, a program designed to help parents build stronger relationship with their children, and the Emotional Intelligence Toolkit 4 Parents, offering parents additional resources to help their children and families become more successful. Stephanie R. Bien, LMFT, LPCC, is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist with private practices in Agoura Hills and Calabasas, California. She has been helping families for more than twenty years and specializes in psychotherapy and play therapy with children and teens to help with self-esteem, stress, school, social, and family issues. She is also the mother of two teen daughters.

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