Teen Health and Wellness

It has been seven years since Rosen Publishing’s Teen Health and Wellness database was last reviewed in these pages. This award-winning resource continues to evolve, adding more content, greater functionality, and overall improvements to the user experience. This web-based database includes articles, audio and video clips, online tools, and web resources. Equally important is the capability for teens to contribute their own videos and personal stories, creating a participatory nonjudgmental environment for them to publish their own work. While Teen Health and Wellness is ideal for public libraries as a first level resource for their teen customers, it really shines in what it offers to educators and school libraries. From lesson plans to curriculum correlations, Teen Health and Wellness is ideal for both personal and academic use, covering topics from gender identity to hearing impairment to social networking safety. Articles are constructed with information presented in a “report ready” format. With text to speech and enhanced text visibility options, Teen Health and Wellness is more accessible than ever. While the primary audience for Teen Health and Wellness is teens, the resource provides insights into the teen experience--crucial for parents, teachers, librarians, therapists, and others who are part of teens’ lives and who support teens.

While the customer base is largely North American, the universality of its tone and treatment may be acknowledged by its use in Australia, Switzerland, Vietnam, India, and others.