Family Crises

Description: Many children experience change and upheaval as they are growing up. They may face family crises, including divorce, domestic violence, child abuse, and debt. Find out how teens in crisis can reach out for and find help. Armed with strategies for coping and support from people who care, children who have gone through painful family crises can find hope and healing.

Review Quotes: Series Review: Emotional Health Issues "Answers to questions such as "What are drugs?" and "What is abuse?" as well as clear language and explanations make this series suitable for fact-finding missions, but the abundant graphics and case studies are likely to draw in browsers as well. Throughout, unfamiliar vocabulary is highlighted in bold and explained in context and in the glossary. Concise explanations of depression's symptoms, self-injurious behaviors, and forms of emotional abuse, for example, will help build students' health literacy...Getting help is the key message, along with taking control by creating personal space, keeping a diary, and thinking through choices. Fact boxes and case study sidebars add information. Further-reading suggestions of novels, diaries, and memoirs will create both literary and personal connections to the topics." --School Library Journal