Identifies Five Basic Needs—such as belonging, developing competence, and building an identity—and shows how we can meet these needs in positive ways;

Presents Five Life Skills based on executive functions of the brain that are developing rapidly during adolescence like setting goals and strategies, perspective taking, problem-solving, and taking on challenges, and shows how we can promote them;

Introduces a new mindset, Possibilities Mindset, and Shared Solutions, a problem-solving process that parents and teachers can use to help create solutions to adolescent’s challenging problems.