Teen Torment: Overcoming Verbal Abuse at Home and at School

by Patricia Evans

The author of The Verbally Abusive Relationship shows teenagers how to identify and overcome verbal abuse and bullying wherever they manifest themselves. Original.

Genres: Nonfiction, Abuse

304 pages, Paperback

First published March 31, 2003

About the author

Patricia Evans is the bestselling author of five books, including The Verbally Abusive Relationship, Verbal Abuse Survivors Speak Out, Controlling People, The Verbally Abusive Man: Can He Change? and Victory Over Verbal Abuse. She has appeared on Oprah, CNN, national radio, and in Newsweek and O, The Oprah Magazine. She has spoken to groups throughout the US, Canada, Madrid at the "Commission for the Investigation of Violence Against Women" and in five cities in Australia. Patricia lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Reviews

[Jodi]

I picked this book up as a way to understand my fourteen year old's world. A lot of common sense information in the book but also a few good reminders for me to remember what it is like to be a teenager. One quote in the book resonated with me because I have the same experience and I'm sure my daughter will too:

p. 129 "Funny, I have trouble remembering names of kids I went to school with, but I can tell you the name of every kid who tormented me from grade school on."

Yep! I have a list of those names too and I can pretty well make a list for my children too. Sigh! So hard to live through and so hard to see for my children.

The guidelines for dating are good and I will have to share them with my daughter when she begins to date! My son too! A nice reminder of how one should and should not be treated by others! I also liked the names of the different types of abusive relationships - the body snatcher, the alien from another planet, the creature from the black lagoon, and the dead-right demon. Funny names but also with some humor to help one see if he or she is in a bad situation with dating.

[Barb Irwin]

Very helpful, even if only a parent reads it!

[Joseph Schmidt]

Good book. For any Christians wondering, the book is not written from a christian perspective. I will put forth that it is done in such a way that it attacks no religion in particular. Despite that, while I was reading it was easy to find the holes where religion fit in perfectly. Lingo Is slightly outdated for us hip & cool teens today.

[Derica Scott]

Very biased, had to read it for English, will not be reading again