{"id":268,"date":"2011-01-31T10:19:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T15:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wholeperson.com\/wordpress\/?p=268"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:28:18","slug":"teen-friendship-workbook-book-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/blog\/teen-friendship-workbook-book-release","title":{"rendered":"Teen Friendship Workbook: Book Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/x-teen_mental_health\/teenmentalhealth.html#TeenFriendship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"270\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/blog\/teen-friendship-workbook-book-release\/teen-friendship\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Teen-Friendship.gif\" data-orig-size=\"124,150\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Teen Friendship Workbook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Teen-Friendship.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Teen-Friendship.gif\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-270\" title=\"Teen Friendship Workbook\" src=\"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Teen-Friendship.gif\" alt=\"Teen Friendship Workbook\" width=\"124\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Book Release<\/h1>\n<p>Whole Person Associates<br \/>\nPHONE 218.727.0500<br \/>\nWEB wholeperson.com<\/p>\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/x-teen_mental_health\/teenmentalhealth.html#TeenFriendship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Teen Friendship Workbook<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><strong><em>Facilitator Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises &amp; Educational Handouts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By John J Liptak, EdD and Ester Leutenberg<\/p>\n<p>Whole Person Associates announces publication of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/x-teen_mental_health\/teenmentalhealth.html#TeenFriendship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Teen Friendship Wokbook: Facilitator Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises &amp; Educational Handouts<\/a> <\/em>by John J Liptak, EdD, and Ester Leutenberg. Choosing healthy friendships is of monumental importance to teenagers. As they move into middle school and high school they will experience changes in friends, personal style, social life, emotions\u2026in fact in all aspects of their lives. <em>The Teen Friendship Workbook <\/em>will help counselors, teachers, therapists, and parents guide teens to choose wisely, avoiding potentially risky situations. Using worksheets, assessments, and games teens will learn how to say \u201cno\u201d and to avoid being negatively influenced by their peers. Adults working with teens will appreciate the quality of the materials as well as the time they save having a versatile collection of tools right at hand on their bookshelf.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/x-teen_mental_health\/teenmentalhealth.html#TeenFriendship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Teen Friendship Workbook<\/a> <\/em>contains five separate sections to help teens learn more about themselves and the skills that are fundamental to developing and maintaining healthy friendships:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Characteristics of Friends Scale<\/strong> \u2013 helps teens explore the types of positive and negative qualities their friendships possess.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Friendships Skills Scale<\/strong> \u2013 helps identify the strengths and weakness teens possess in interacting with their friends.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Friend Communication Skills Scale<\/strong> \u2013 helps identify and explore how well teens are communicating with their friends and develop better friendship communication skills<\/li>\n<li><strong>Friendship Personality Scale<\/strong> \u2013 helps teens understand their own personality and the personality of their friends to better accept one another for the ways they are different.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peer Pressure Scale<\/strong> \u2013 helps identify the ways in which teens feel pressured or influenced by their friends to do things they may or may not want to do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The Teen Friendship Workbook: Facilitator Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises &amp; Educational Handouts <\/em>is one of a series of 12 books covering mental health and lifestyle issues familiar to all professionals working with teens. Being released concurrently are: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/x-teen_mental_health\/teenmentalhealth.html#TeenAggression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Teen Aggression and Bullying Workbook<\/a> <\/em>and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/x-teen_mental_health\/teenmentalhealth.html#TeenAnger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Teen Anger Workbook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/x-teen_mental_health\/teenmentalhealth.html#TeenFriendship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Teen Friendship Workbook<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Facilitator Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises &amp; Educational Handouts <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Written by: John J Liptak, EdD and Ester Leutenberg<br \/>\nNo. of pages: 122<br \/>\nSoftcover:\u00a0 Price $49.95<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-57025-249-5<br \/>\nPublication date: 2011<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Authors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John J. Liptak, EdD<\/strong>, frequently conducts workshops on assessment-related topics. He has written three books on career-related topics which have been featured in numerous newspapers including <em>The Washington Post, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette <\/em>and the <em>Associated Press<\/em>. His work has also been featured on MSNBC, CNN Radio and on the PAX \/ ION television series, \u201cSuccess without a College Degree.\u201d John has many years of experience in providing counseling services to individuals and groups in a variety of settings including job training programs, correctional institutions, and colleges and universities. In addition, John has about ten years of teaching experience as<\/p>\n<p>an assistant professor. With Kathy Khalsa and Ester Leutenberg, he has written three other comprehensive books for teachers and counselors to use with their students and clients: <em>The Self-Esteem Program, The Social Skills Program, <\/em>and <em>The Stress Management Program:\u00a0 Inventories, Activities &amp; Educational Handouts<\/em>. With Whole Person Associates, he and Ester Leutenberg continue to co-write books to add to their <em>Mental Health &amp; Life Skills Workbook <\/em>series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ester A. Leutenberg <\/strong>has worked in the mental health field for many years as a publisher, author, and advocate for those suffering from loss. She personally experienced a devastating loss when her son Mitchell, after struggling with a mental illness for eight years, died by suicide in 1986. Soon after, as a way of both healing and helping others, Ester co-founded Wellness Reproductions &amp; Publishing with her daughter Kathy Khalsa and began developing therapeutic products that help facilitators help their clients. Ester is the co-author of the <em>SEALS <\/em>series for teen-agers, <em>Life Management Skills <\/em>series for adults and <em>Meaningful Life Skills <\/em>for older adults, as well as a variety of therapeutic card games, board games and posters. Ester has co-written <em>GriefWork ~ Healing from Loss<\/em>, <em>The GriefWork Companion <\/em>and <em>Creating a Healthy Balanced Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ester and John have co-written the <em>Mental Health &amp; Life Skills Workbook Series<\/em>, the <em>Teen Mental Health &amp; Life Skills Workbook Series <\/em>and are currently working on a <em>Coping Workbook Series<\/em>, all published by Whole Person Associates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Illustrator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amy L. Brodsky, LISW-S, <\/strong>has worked assisting children and adults in psychiatric crisis. She is well known for her creative illustrations of the <em>Emotions <\/em>product line, over 35 therapeutic books, including the <em>Life Management Skills <\/em>and <em>SEALS <\/em>series, the T<em>een Relationship Workbook<\/em>, <em>Crossing the Bridge<\/em>, <em>GriefWork ~ Healing from Loss<\/em>, <em>The GriefWork Companion<\/em>, <em>Creating a Healthy Balanced Life<\/em>, and the Liptak \/ Leutenberg Workbook series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Release Whole Person Associates PHONE 218.727.0500 WEB wholeperson.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Teen Friendship Workbook Facilitator Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises &amp; Educational Handouts By John J Liptak, EdD and Ester Leutenberg Whole Person Associates announces publication of The Teen Friendship Wokbook: Facilitator Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises &amp; Educational Handouts by John J Liptak, EdD, and Ester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[125,124,10,109,123,126,8,11,111],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-counselor","tag-friendship","tag-stress","tag-teen","tag-teenager","tag-therapist","tag-wellness","tag-whole-person","tag-workbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Teen Friendship Workbook: Book Release - The Wellness Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wholeperson.com\/blog\/teen-friendship-workbook-book-release\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teen Friendship Workbook: Book Release - The Wellness Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Book Release Whole Person Associates PHONE 218.727.0500 WEB wholeperson.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Teen Friendship Workbook Facilitator Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises &amp; 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