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Call us, helplines urge troubled teens
1a) List two reasons why teens are reluctant to call helplines despite the promise of anonymity and professional help.
b) According to Ms Lily Chu, how does Touch Leadership and Mentoring prefer to help troubled teens?
2) Have you confided in your friends or family members about the problems you face in school/ life? Why or why not?
Have you been betrayed by your friends before? If yes, how? (You may change the names of the people involved for privacy)
ANSWER
1a) They did not feel comfortable with outsider. Teenager tend not to talk with strange. Some more sharing thier personal life with unknown people. Teenager will feel uneasy about it.
1b)Advise them and tell them what is right and what is wrong.
2) Yes, i do. When ever i came back from school, if i have any problem in school i will tell my mother because if we never share with other our head is full of problems and it might cause us headache. If we got lots of problems in our mind we cannot focus on studying and lots of things. Example:stress, cannot cope with study... Actually i had forgot whether i have been betrayed by my friends but if it was a yes, i think mostly was about secret example: i have a friend which i had told her my secret and he/her told others or even my enemy. Another kind is about telling other our plan example: we a group of people have plan to ignore the "person" cause some reasons but one of the group member have told the "person" about it.
