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Product Description

School Library Journal Top 10 Digital Resource

Library Journal Best Reference Source

The Charleston Advisor Best New Product, Readers’ Choice Awards

Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers, the award-winning, critically acclaimed database from Rosen Publishing provides middle and high school students with curricular support and self-help on topics including diseases & conditions; drugs & alcohol; nutrition & fitness; mental and emotional health; sexuality & sexual health; bullying and internet safety; green living; family life, and more.  Content in this database is aligned to Ontario curriculum standards in health and physical education; science; and language arts.

Developed for teens, with their unique concerns in mind, Teen Health & Wellness draws on Rosen’s landmark series, including Coping, Need to Know, and others.

Thoroughly updated and revised for online use, all content is reviewed by leading professionals across fields including medicine, mental health, nutrition, substance abuse prevention, guidance, and career counseling.  The name of the expert reader appears on every page on every entry with a link to that expert’s biography. To ensure its accuracy and relevance, all content is reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis. Rosen’s standards of editorial integrity mandate that each entry include the date it was last updated.

Overview of Entry Structure:

• Content aligned to Ontario curriculum standards.
• Articles present topics comprehensively and concisely in 6,000-8,000 words.
• Prominent table of contents lets students navigate easily within an article.
• Articles are structured consistently and contain key sections like Myths and Facts, Questions to ask, Resources, For Further Reading, and Glossary.
• Written with teens in mind, articles make complex topics understandable.
• Resource sections with Canadian Web sites and organizations, and recommended reading annotated and reviewed by Rosen editors.
• For Further Reading includes recommended fiction and nonfiction and can link to a library OPAC.
• Article-specific glossaries appear within each article.
• “Related Article” links aid research and help students dig deeper into topics.
• Users can print or email an entire article or an article section.
• Users can obtain automatically generated citations in MLA format.
• Photos, drawings, diagrams, callouts, and icons reinforce and explain key concepts.

Teen Health & Wellness now also allows users to interact with the database in new and exciting ways. The database now includes a customizable Canadian hotlines page, allowing libraries to add the Canadian hotlines and organizations they trust most. The Personal Story Project invites young adults to contribute their own story about successfully dealing with or overcoming a challenge in their lives. The teen stories published on the site address issues ranging from alcohol abuse to scoliosis and eating disorders to volunteering. In addition, teens and librarians can now customize database reading lists to include their favorite titles. They can suggest both fiction and nonfiction books to be added to each subject entry’s recommended reading list.

To serve the unique needs of its customers, Rosen has also made virtually all Teen Health & Wellness promotional materials, such as bookmarks and access cards, completely customizable, allowing libraries to easily add their library URL and login information.

Contact Information

Sales, Marketing, Training, or Questions about this Web page or the Database:

Miriam Gilbert
Director, Electronic Sales & Marketing
Phone:  303.818.7187
Email:  miriamg@rosenpub.com

Customer Care and Technical Support: 

Jennifer Caperello
Phone:  877.381.6649
Email:  jenniferc@rosenpub.com

Internet-based User Support/Help Desk:
Customers can use the Contact Us form available in the header (using the Site Help link) and footer (Contact Us link) of every page of the database.
Additional contact information is as follows:
Phone: 800.237.9932
Fax: 888.436.4643

Or you can contact us online.

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