Books on Peer Pressure
How to Keep Your Teenager Out of Trouble by Neil I. Bernstein. Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2002.
Clinical psychologist Neil Bernstein focuses on effective communication between parent and teen including how to avoid threats and put-downs, offer clear explanations, stick with the issues at hand, negotiate, improve listening skills, ask relevant questions, and stop interrogating or lecturing. Sample dialogues are provided to keep discussions from turning into arguments. This book is for helping parents and teens make it through the difficult years.
Peer pressure: deal with it without losing your cool by Elaine Slavens. James Lorimer & Company, 2004.
Using contemporary situations and language, Peer Pressure explores the pressures young people experience, how to walk away from it, and how kids can empower each other to stand up for their own interests.
Peer Pressure by Justin Healey. Spinney Press, 2007.
This book is a useful guide in explaining what peer pressure is, where it comes from, and how it can affect us. Advice is given to young people, parents, and teachers on how to identify and handle peer pressure, and looks at some specific examples - teenage popularity issues, bullying, risk-taking behaviors (dating pressures, sex, drugs), and social pressures to look and act certain ways.