Apps
Interested in learning more about teen health from your smartphone or tablet? Check out these apps!
Always There on iTunes and Android
The Always There app was created by Kids Help Phone and is a private space for teens to log their feelings, flip through youth-submitted tips, inspirational quotes, and jokes that can help teens cope with stress. The app also connects users directly to a Kids Help Phone counselor over the phone or through Live Chat. Users can also search for resources in their community-information includes counseling and mental health, sexual health, and housing help.
The Always There app was created by Kids Help Phone and is a private space for teens to log their feelings, flip through youth-submitted tips, inspirational quotes, and jokes that can help teens cope with stress. The app also connects users directly to a Kids Help Phone counselor over the phone or through Live Chat. Users can also search for resources in their community-information includes counseling and mental health, sexual health, and housing help.
Smiling Mind on iTunes
Teens are vulnerable to depression, but strategies for managing symptoms are often meant to help adults. This app is specifically focuses on helping teens experiencing depression. Users can set meditation goals and are guided through each session. Users can also note changes in mood and track progress during each session.
Teens are vulnerable to depression, but strategies for managing symptoms are often meant to help adults. This app is specifically focuses on helping teens experiencing depression. Users can set meditation goals and are guided through each session. Users can also note changes in mood and track progress during each session.
Teen Hotlines for iTunes
This app has information on hotlines, help lines, and websites all organized by subject. Topics include school violence, depression, eating disorders, suicide, and more. The national organizations listed can also refer teens to state and local services near them. Provided by the website teenhealthandwellness.org.
This app has information on hotlines, help lines, and websites all organized by subject. Topics include school violence, depression, eating disorders, suicide, and more. The national organizations listed can also refer teens to state and local services near them. Provided by the website teenhealthandwellness.org.
Audiobooks & E-Books
For e-books that can be downloaded onto tablets like the Kindle and the Nook, look below:
Being a Teen: Everything Teen Girls & Boys Should Know About Relationships, Sex, Love, Health, Identity and More by Jane Fonda
A guide to navigating through puberty that presents some advice for teens who choose to have sex, but Fonda focuses on preventing pregnancy through abstinence. She explores topics of forebplay, fantasy, and masturbation. Teens may find this interesting if they are trying to understand these topics, but it may be a little condescending for readers who are more informed. This is a good foundational resource.
Fonda's book can be purchased through Amazon Kindle store in an eBook.
A guide to navigating through puberty that presents some advice for teens who choose to have sex, but Fonda focuses on preventing pregnancy through abstinence. She explores topics of forebplay, fantasy, and masturbation. Teens may find this interesting if they are trying to understand these topics, but it may be a little condescending for readers who are more informed. This is a good foundational resource.
Fonda's book can be purchased through Amazon Kindle store in an eBook.
Print Materials
Find books and other print materials related to teen health and other related topics below. Clicking on the book photo will direct you to the title's Amazon listing. You can also click on the item's title to look at any Goodreads information available:
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens: Simple Ways to Keep Your Cool in Stressful Times by Richard Carlson
Part of the Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series, this book is directed at teens and offers simple, helpful wisdom for dealing with everyday problems. "Anyone who thinks teens have it easy hasn't been to a high school recently. As the headlines remind us almost daily, America's teenagers deal with stress in just about every facet of their lives: academics, sports, social situations, family life, money matters, even work. As with his other Don't Sweat the Small Stuff titles, teens and their parents will find that Richard Carlson's positive approach helps to minimize the impact stressful situations have on their lives."
Part of the Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series, this book is directed at teens and offers simple, helpful wisdom for dealing with everyday problems. "Anyone who thinks teens have it easy hasn't been to a high school recently. As the headlines remind us almost daily, America's teenagers deal with stress in just about every facet of their lives: academics, sports, social situations, family life, money matters, even work. As with his other Don't Sweat the Small Stuff titles, teens and their parents will find that Richard Carlson's positive approach helps to minimize the impact stressful situations have on their lives."
Sex: A Book for Teens by Nikol Hasler
A hilarious, honest, and detailed look at sex. "This isn't your mother's sex book: It's punchy and unapologetic. At the same time, it teaches teens the practical ins and outs of being sexually active and, above all, how to stay safe. With humorous illustrations by San Francisco Chronicle cartoon artist Michael Capozzola, this book features chapters on everything including: foreplay, different forms of sex (all of them!), masturbation, sexual orientation and gender identity, body issues, relationships, virginity, birth control, and protection against diseases. Modern teens are faced daily with making decisions about whether to have sex and how to protect themselves if they do, and they need an engaging and relatable resource for getting the right information. That's what this book is about."
A hilarious, honest, and detailed look at sex. "This isn't your mother's sex book: It's punchy and unapologetic. At the same time, it teaches teens the practical ins and outs of being sexually active and, above all, how to stay safe. With humorous illustrations by San Francisco Chronicle cartoon artist Michael Capozzola, this book features chapters on everything including: foreplay, different forms of sex (all of them!), masturbation, sexual orientation and gender identity, body issues, relationships, virginity, birth control, and protection against diseases. Modern teens are faced daily with making decisions about whether to have sex and how to protect themselves if they do, and they need an engaging and relatable resource for getting the right information. That's what this book is about."
Reference Resources
For information on teens, check out this periodical below!
Journal of Youth and Adolescents
This journal publishes information on experimental evidence and data, theoretical papers, comprehensive review articles, and clinical reports for psychiatrists, psychologists, biologists, sociologists, educators, and other professionals working with youth and adolescents. This is a good resource for current data and studies about teens and although it is aimed for an older audience, it has useful information for teens.
This journal publishes information on experimental evidence and data, theoretical papers, comprehensive review articles, and clinical reports for psychiatrists, psychologists, biologists, sociologists, educators, and other professionals working with youth and adolescents. This is a good resource for current data and studies about teens and although it is aimed for an older audience, it has useful information for teens.
Websites
Listed below are useful websites where teens can find information on health topics and more:
Adolescent Wellness on Adolescent Wellness, Inc-adolescentwellness.org
AWI creates activities for children and teens to improve coping skills-the goal of this site is to prevent depression. Activities help improve teen problem solving skills and social supports strengthen their ability to overcome challenges and other crises.
AWI creates activities for children and teens to improve coping skills-the goal of this site is to prevent depression. Activities help improve teen problem solving skills and social supports strengthen their ability to overcome challenges and other crises.
Go Ask Alice! on goaskalice.columbia.edu
Produced and funded by Columbia University, this site provides reliable and accurate information so teens can make informed decisions about their health and wellness. The site focuses on seven categories: alcohol and drugs, emotional health, fitness and nutrition, general health, relationships, and sexual and reporductive health. Go Ask Alice! receives over 1,000 questions each week and a handful of health professionals give thoughtful and thorough answers.
Produced and funded by Columbia University, this site provides reliable and accurate information so teens can make informed decisions about their health and wellness. The site focuses on seven categories: alcohol and drugs, emotional health, fitness and nutrition, general health, relationships, and sexual and reporductive health. Go Ask Alice! receives over 1,000 questions each week and a handful of health professionals give thoughtful and thorough answers.
Its My Life on PBS Kids
Directed more at tweens/middle schoolers, this site provides solid advice on a wide variety of topics. This is useful for students looking for basic information and advice
Directed more at tweens/middle schoolers, this site provides solid advice on a wide variety of topics. This is useful for students looking for basic information and advice
Kids Help Phone on kidshelpphone.ca
Teens can find free phone and web counseling 24/7 on this site. Information is anonymous and confidential in this non-judgemental space. The site provides a live chat service and has info booth topics on a variety of subjects including bullying, dating, emotional health, family, friendship, sexual orientation, money, jobs, laws, physical health, school, the Internet, and violence and abuse. This is a very informative site that allows teens to speak with a professional about sensitive topics that users may not be ready to share with others.
Teens can find free phone and web counseling 24/7 on this site. Information is anonymous and confidential in this non-judgemental space. The site provides a live chat service and has info booth topics on a variety of subjects including bullying, dating, emotional health, family, friendship, sexual orientation, money, jobs, laws, physical health, school, the Internet, and violence and abuse. This is a very informative site that allows teens to speak with a professional about sensitive topics that users may not be ready to share with others.
Teen Depression Helpguide on helpguide.org
Helpguide provides teens and their parents/guardians access to unbiased and reliable information that can give them a sense of hope and direction. The site lists tips and other ways for teens to seek help and get better who may have problems with depression.
Helpguide provides teens and their parents/guardians access to unbiased and reliable information that can give them a sense of hope and direction. The site lists tips and other ways for teens to seek help and get better who may have problems with depression.
Teen's Health on kidshealth.org
Teen's Health is part of kidshealth.org and provides health information for teens. The site addresses topics like mind, sexual health, food & fitness, diseases & conditions, infections, school & jobs, drugs & alcohol, and more. Teens can also take quizzes and get expert answers on a variety of subjects.
Teen's Health is part of kidshealth.org and provides health information for teens. The site addresses topics like mind, sexual health, food & fitness, diseases & conditions, infections, school & jobs, drugs & alcohol, and more. Teens can also take quizzes and get expert answers on a variety of subjects.
Teen Health & Wellness on teenhealthandwellness.org
This site provides middle and high school students support in a nonjudgemental, straightforward, curricular, self-help, and standards-aligned environment. Teens can search topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, suicide, bullying, mental health, financial literacy, green living, and more. Teen Health & Wellness was created for teens with their unique concerns and perspectives in mind. This resource is updated and revised often and reviewed by professionals in the medicine, mental health, nutrition, guidance, and career counseling fields.
This site provides middle and high school students support in a nonjudgemental, straightforward, curricular, self-help, and standards-aligned environment. Teens can search topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, suicide, bullying, mental health, financial literacy, green living, and more. Teen Health & Wellness was created for teens with their unique concerns and perspectives in mind. This resource is updated and revised often and reviewed by professionals in the medicine, mental health, nutrition, guidance, and career counseling fields.