Taking It to the Net

1. Depression is one example of a mood disorder. How common are mood disorders in adolescents? What are other examples of mood disorders and how do the symptoms differ from "normal" behavior?

http://www.med.utah.edu/healthinfo/pediatric/Adolescent/overview.htm

2. Obesity is the major eating disorder. A common stereotype is that obese people simply eat too much and that they easily could regain normal weight if they just watched how and what they ate. If one of your friends expressed this view how would you counter it?

http://www.med.utah.edu/healthinfo/pediatric/Adolescent/obesity.htm

3. Think of an important stressful event or situation in which you found yourself sometime during the past three months. What did you do; how did you deal with the stressor? Is that how you generally cope? Take the coping test and find out.

http://www.queendom.com/tests/career/coping_skills.html