Resources
These resources, hand picked by the Living Compass staff, have been chosen to provide support for people who are hoping to make a change towards wholeness and wellness in their lives. We suggest that you take an assessment before you delve into the resources as the results will help you know which resources are most appropriate for you. Then as you work to develop strengths for yourself in the areas you want to pay more attention to, these resources will help you determine which action step you will want to start with.
If you find a resource that you think would be helpful for others, please let us know!
Teen Assessment Resources
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1) Spirituality
2) Rest & Play
3) Emotions -
4) Relationships
5) Care for Body
6) Stress Resiliency -
7) Work-School
8) Organization
Teen Assessment - Spirituality Websites
- www.volunteermatch.org
This website will help you find just the right place to volunteer.
Teen Assessment - Rest & Play Websites
- Above the Influence
Know the facts before you say yes. Help a friend who is struggling with drugs or alcohol. Learn how to be a positive influence for those around you and how to avoid pressures and stay true to yourself!
abovetheinfluence.com - thecoolspot.gov
A website devoted to discussing alcohol and drug use among teens. Tips for how to avoid the pressure to partake in these activities and how to help a friend who is struggling with drugs or alcohol.
thecoolspot.gov - Channel One
A great website with news about music, sports, and schools around the country. Lots of opportunities to look at colleges or just hear from other teens about their adventures around the world!
Channel One - Under 21 Alcohol and Drug Crisis Line
Call 1-866-661-MPWR or text Keyword MPOWER to 55358 to get help for you or someone you know who needs help. Know what a crisis situation looks like and be proactive by knowing this number and website.
Under 21 Alcohol and Drug Crisis Line (Online) - NIDA For Teens
Learn more about drug abuse and how different drugs lead to different reactions in the brain and body. A great way to get informed about drugs and how to resist the pressures of dangerous use.
teens.drugabuse.gov - Cyber Teens
Games, links, art, news, school, and creativity! This website is a fun and interesting place to visit in your free time to share your own thoughts, art, and views. A great way to find out about future schools and connect to other teens.
Cyber Teens
Teen Assessment - Emotions Books
- Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons
This book focuses on interactions between adolescent girls and provides language for the indirect aggression that runs through the lives and friendships of girls. A look into the tactics that girls utilize to gain control over their lives, and sometimes one another.
Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons on Amazon - Healing Your Grieving Heart For Teens by Alan Wolfelt, Ph.d.
This book has suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, it explains how people can to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies.
Healing Your Grieving Heart For Teens on Amazon - Children of Alcoholism: A Survivors Manual by Judith Seixas & Geraldine Youcha
This book exposes "the terrible family secret" and draws on interviews with over 200 survivors to share the realities of family alcoholism. The book also discusses in detail how survivors can: tend to become alcoholics themselves, or marry alcoholic partners confront addictive behavior, including alcoholism recognize symptoms openly discuss drinking with their own children
Children of Alcoholism: A Survivors Manual on Amazon - Driven to Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D.
Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), the authors show the varied forms ADD takes -- from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming -- and the transforming impact of precise diagnosis and treatment.
Driven to Distraction on Amazon - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey
Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In this book, Covey applies the timeless principles of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. In an entertaining style, Covey provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens on Google Books - The Five Love Languages of Teenagers by Gary Chapman
This book explains the ways in which teens communicate; to parents, to each other, and with themselves. A great way to better understand how you and your peers express yourselves!
The Five Love Languages of Teenagers on Amazon
Teen Assessment - Emotions Videos
- Teenage Mental Illness & Suicide Documentary
"Cry For Help" is a documentary from PBS about teenage mental illness and suicide. An inside look into the emotional lives of adolescents. Revealing and helpful. The website also has resources for teens struggling with these issues.
Cry for Help
Teen Assessment - Relationships Books
- Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons
This book focuses on interactions between adolescent girls and provides language for the indirect aggression that runs through the lives and friendships of girls. A look into the tactics that girls utilize to gain control over their lives, and sometimes one another.
Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons on Amazon - The Divorce Workbook for Teens by Lisa M. Schab LCSW
It's tough being a teen even in the best of circumstances, but when parents divorce teens are faced with an additional set of practical and emotional issues. This book gives them everything they need to get through their parents' divorce and keep it from taking a long-term emotional toll.
The Divorce Workbook for Teens on Amazon - How To Avoid Falling in Love With A Jerk or Jerkette by John Van Epp, Ph.d
Based on years of research on marital and premarital happiness, this book will help you break destructive dating patterns that have kept you from finding the love you deserve. How to understand others, yourself, and the nature of relationships in order to have greater success in love.
How To Avoid Falling in Love With A Jerk or Jerkette on Amazon - Children of Alcoholism: A Survivors Manual by Judith Seixas & Geraldine Youcha
This book exposes "the terrible family secret" and draws on interviews with over 200 survivors to share the realities of family alcoholism. The book also discusses in detail how survivors can: tend to become alcoholics themselves, or marry alcoholic partners confront addictive behavior, including alcoholism recognize symptoms openly discuss drinking with their own children
Children of Alcoholism: A Survivors Manual on Amazon - The Complete Idiot's Guide to A Healthy Relationship by Dr. Judy Kuriansky
A book helpful for all levels of couples - from those who have never dated anyone else before to those who have dated quite a bit but now want to learn more about their relationship. A great way to understand others and how you interact with them!
The Complete Idiot's Guide to A Healthy Relationship on Amazon - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey
Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In this book, Covey applies the timeless principles of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. In an entertaining style, Covey provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens on Google Books - The Five Love Languages of Teenagers by Gary Chapman
This book explains the ways in which teens communicate; to parents, to each other, and with themselves. A great way to better understand how you and your peers express yourselves!
The Five Love Languages of Teenagers on Amazon
Teen Assessment - Relationships Videos
- Teenage Mental Illness & Suicide Documentary
"Cry For Help" is a documentary from PBS about teenage mental illness and suicide. An inside look into the emotional lives of adolescents. Revealing and helpful. The website also has resources for teens struggling with these issues.
Cry for Help
Teen Assessment - Care for Body Books
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
An inspiring book about running and the people who partake in it and are motivated by it! A great way to get yourself into a new exercise habit.
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall on Amazon
Teen Assessment - Care for Body Websites
- GirlsHealth.gov
A fun website for teens to talk to other girls their age going through the same issues. A great place to find peer support and learn more about what teenage girls are going through!
GirlsHealth.gov - Above the Influence
Know the facts before you say yes. Help a friend who is struggling with drugs or alcohol. Learn how to be a positive influence for those around you and how to avoid pressures and stay true to yourself!
abovetheinfluence.com - thecoolspot.gov
A website devoted to discussing alcohol and drug use among teens. Tips for how to avoid the pressure to partake in these activities and how to help a friend who is struggling with drugs or alcohol.
thecoolspot.gov - www.findtreatment.samhsa.gov
A resource to find alcohol and drug treatment facilities and organizations by you. An easy way to find a reliable place for yourself or your loved one to receive treatment. A first step to getting help.
www.findtreatment.samhsa.gov - Under 21 Alcohol and Drug Crisis Line
Call 1-866-661-MPWR or text Keyword MPOWER to 55358 to get help for you or someone you know who needs help. Know what a crisis situation looks like and be proactive by knowing this number and website.
Under 21 Alcohol and Drug Crisis Line (Online) - NIDA For Teens
Learn more about drug abuse and how different drugs lead to different reactions in the brain and body. A great way to get informed about drugs and how to resist the pressures of dangerous use.
teens.drugabuse.gov - Nicotine Anonymous
For those looking for support and tips in quitting their use of cigarettes. Stop the destructive habit today!
Nicotine Anonymous Online - Help in Quitting Smoking
NCI launches smoking cessation support for teens teen.smokefree.gov or TEXT 47848 (iQUIT) A new effort to help teens quit smoking will use one of today's most constant companions -- the mobile phone. Developed by smoking cessation experts, SmokefreeTXT is a free text message cessation service that provides 24/7 encouragement, advice, and tips to teens trying to quit smoking. The initiative is led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. Once they sign up, teens receive text messages timed according to their selected quit date. Following their quit date, they will continue receiving texts for up to six weeks
Teen Assessment - Care for Body Videos
- Teenage Mental Illness & Suicide Documentary
"Cry For Help" is a documentary from PBS about teenage mental illness and suicide. An inside look into the emotional lives of adolescents. Revealing and helpful. The website also has resources for teens struggling with these issues.
Cry for Help
Teen Assessment - Stress Resiliency Books
- Stress Management for Dummies by Allen Elkin
Your parents and friends drive you crazy sometimes. This is a beginners guide to understanding how that stressful feeling works, why does it occur? It gives easy and funny tips for getting your stress under control and being able to view life's troubles with greater positivity and control.
Stress Management for Dummies by Allen Elkin on Amazon - It Gets Better by Dan Savage and Jerry Miller
Are you struggling with coming to terms with your sexuality or just coming into your own? This book is part of the It Gets Better movement that communicates to teens and adults that, although life may be a struggle, it indeed gets better with acceptance and positivity. You are never alone!
It Gets Better Organizaton - Driven to Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D.
Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), the authors show the varied forms ADD takes -- from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming -- and the transforming impact of precise diagnosis and treatment.
Driven to Distraction on Amazon - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey
Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In this book, Covey applies the timeless principles of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. In an entertaining style, Covey provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens on Google Books
Teen Assessment - Stress Resiliency Websites
- Above the Influence
Know the facts before you say yes. Help a friend who is struggling with drugs or alcohol. Learn how to be a positive influence for those around you and how to avoid pressures and stay true to yourself!
abovetheinfluence.com
Teen Assessment - Stress Resiliency Videos
- Teenage Mental Illness & Suicide Documentary
"Cry For Help" is a documentary about teenage mental illness and suicide. The website includes resources for those going through these issues to provide help. A great way to understand more about peers experiencing these ailments or experiencing loss.
Cry for Help
Teen Assessment - Work-School Books
- You Can Do It (Even if Others Say You Can't) by John Mason
Change your way of thinking and you can change your life. This book offers readers inspirational truth in bite-sized pieces, making them easy to remember and apply to life's issues, big and small. It powerfully shows that the past does not equal the future and readers can live fruitful and fulfilling lives when they step forward in faith, believing that God will provide the means to accomplish the impossible.
You Can Do It on Amazon
Teen Assessment - Work-School Websites
- Channel One
A website providing teens with news about music, sports, the world, and schools around the country. Hear from other teens about their experiences around the world. Great tips for going back to school and finding a great college!
Channel One - Teens Teaching Teens
A way to be taught by those your age in subjects you may need help with! Put in ways that you can understand. Also an opportunity to teach others your age in the things you excel at!
Teens Teaching Teens Online
Teen Assessment - Organization Books
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey
Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In this book, Covey applies the timeless principles of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. In an entertaining style, Covey provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens on Google Books
Teen Assessment - Organization Websites
- The Container Store
A wonderful place to look at and buy all different kinds of containers, drawers, and other spaces that help to organize any space that needs tidying. Really fun to explore and use! Perfect for dorm rooms!!
The Container Store - Get Organized!
A website that gives you the tools to organize any space in your home or space of choice. As Seen On TV deals, the newest containers and baskets, and clearance items that are very cheap. A great tool to organize your life!
Get Organized - Channel One
A website providing teens with news about music, sports, the world, and schools around the country. Hear from other teens about their experiences around the world. Great tips for going back to school and finding a great college!
Channel One
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