Stars: How Drugs and Alcohol Affect UsPaperback, 23 January 2004

This interactive workbook on knowing how drugs and alcohol affect our lives offers teachers and counselors specific, easy-to-use strategies for approaching this difficult but very important issue in the lives of middle school students.The STARS LifeSkills Program is a series of six interactive workbooks for students in grades five through nine. Each workbook is designed to teach specific life skills using a variety of short, easy-to-read, concrete activities. The STARS LifeSkills Program may be used as a comprehensive life-skills curriculum, as a group counseling resource, or with individual students who need to develop specific skills.

The STARS LifeSkills Program is a valuable resource for counselors, teachers, administrators, and parents. It is also beneficial for social workers, mental-health professionals, addictions counselors, workers in the juvenile justice system, members of the clergy, and other individuals and agencies dealing directly with adolescents.

The six workbooks in The STARS LifeSkills Program are:

• Learning About Anger
• Learning More About Anger
• Knowing Yourself
• Getting Along with Others
• Respecting Others
• How Drugs and Alcohol Affect Us