Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers

We now have access to a new award-winning database, specifically to answer teens' health and wellness questions.

The Teen Health and Wellness Database can be accessed either in the library, or from your home computer. It offers:
- comprehensive articles about issues essential to teen health and well-being
- regularly updated homepage features connecting medical news and social issues to database articles
- automatically generated citations for use in school papers, plus the ability to print and e-mail articles
- resource sections with Web sites, organizations and recommended reading
- interactive polls and quizzes
- authentic, first-person teen narratives
- listings of national 24-hour hotlines for teens in crises.

You can search by keyword, or go in through the main category headings, which include:
* Body Basics
* Developmental Disabilities and Disorders
* Diseases, Infections and Conditions
* Diversity
* Drugs and Alcohol
* Eating Disorders
* Family Life
* Friendship and Dating
* Grief and Loss
* Mind, Mood and Emotions
* Nutrition, Fitness and Appearance
* Safety
* Sexuality and Sexual Health
* Skills for School, Work and Life

Articles and content in the database are thoroughly reviewed by professionals in the appropriate fields.