Everything You Need to Know about Stress: Need to Know Library

Teens today experience an enormous amount of stress, what with peer pressure, divorce, school violence, teen sex, and ever multiplying school, extracurricular, family, and social commitments. This stress load can lead to lower grades, social isolation, chronic pain, debilitating illness, depression, and even suicidal thoughts and actions. Ayer tells teens how to recognize the symptoms of stress and recommends many effective techniques to help reduce and manage this tension. Included in the New York Public Library's 1995 Best Books for the Teen Age.