Teenage Troubles

Get support and strategies for tackling challenges like anxiety, low confidence, peer pressure, body image concerns, and other issues affecting teenage wellbeing.

Accepting Religious Diversity
In our small world, each one of us can be in contact with different cultures every hour of the day. A large part of culture is religion, and we are lucky eno...
All about Abortion
Abortion is a contentious issue, and often the emotions that surround it obscure the facts. Today, abortion is a safe way to terminate an unwanted pregnancy...
Anger Management Techniques
Everyone knows how it feels to get so angry that you want to smash things, throw things or even hurt others, but very few people act on these impulses. Contr...
Cyber Safety
It seems like in this day and age we can do anything on the Web. We can shop, we can chat, we can plan our holidays, we can buy music and we can even watch o...
Dealing With Someone You Love Being Ill
Dealing with someone you love being ill would be hard for anyone. The pain of seeing a loved one suffering does not lessen as you get older nor does it fade...
Dental Braces
Many teens are advised to wear dental braces for oral health. Unfortunately there are myths and rumours surrounding dental braces that can be off putting. If...
FAQ About Sexism
Sexism is a word that you might be familiar with, but few people fully understand. Rather than hide your ignorance about this important issue, read on for an...
FAQ About Suicide Thoughts
Suicide or the taking of one’s own life, is a tragedy each and every time it occurs. Approximately 4,000 suicides occur every year in the UK, but suicide r...
Living with Loss
Dealing with the death of a loved one can be traumatic for even the most mature adult, but when you have to live with loss as a teenager your world can spin...
Steroids
Recent newspaper articles have talked about a growing problem of steroid abuse in teenagers almost exclusively boys, and young men. Anabolic steroids are ill...
Stuttering
Not being able to get words out quite right or not being able to speak smoothly in flowing sentences without stuttering can be awkward at any age not least w...
Teenage Pregnancy
Teen pregnancy rates have recently been on the rise across the UK despite measures by the government medical professionals and community interest groups to l...
Your Questions About Happy Slapping
Imagine that you are waiting for your bus and you're punched by a total stranger. Imagine trying to withdraw your allowance from an ATM machine and being sla...
Your Questions About Racism
It can be hard to turn on the television or open up the newspaper without learning about racism and racist incidents across the UK. In today's modern times e...