Showing titles in Adolescence

A new way of thinking about (and celebrating!) your child during these critical years! Congrats—you're having a teen! No, really—congratulations! You're entering one of the most exciting, important phases of parenting. These years are your best opportunity to guide your child toward a thriving adulthood and strengthen your relationship with them for life. This guide will help you understand, encourage, support, love, and, yes, even celebrate your teen!

In Rethinking Your Teenager, family therapist Darby Fox challenges parents to redefine the goals of adolescence by reorienting their focus from what they want their child to be to on who they want their child to be. Darby not only equips parents with the insight to understand the changes taking place in their child's brain and body and support their adolescent's bid for independence, but also offers an approach that allows parents to engage their adolescent in a relationship instead of struggling in an endless battle for control.

Sexploitation exposes the truth to parents, kids, educators, and the medical profession about the seen and unseen influences affecting children, inspiring parents to take the role as the primary sexuality educator. With more information, parents will gain conviction to discuss and develop values, expectations, boundaries, and rules with their kids.

Our obsession with praise and blame begins soon after birth. Totally dependent on others, rapidly we learn to value praise and to fear the consequences of blame. Despite outgrowing an infant's dependence, we continue to monitor others' judgments of us - and develop what relational psychologist Terri Apter calls a "judgment meter", which constantly scans people and our interactions with them, registering a positive or negative opinion.

The teen years can be daunting for any parent. But if you are the parent of a teen who lashes out or engages in troubling behavior, you may be unsure of how to respond to your child in a compassionate, constructive way. In this important book, two renowned experts in teen mental health offer you evidence-based skills for dealing with your teen's out-of-control emotions using proven, effective dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).

Help prepare the children and teens in your life to face life’s challenges with grace and grit. In this award-winning guide, author and pediatrician Dr. Ken Ginsburg shares his seven crucial Cs: competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control. You’ll discover how to incorporate these concepts into your parenting style and communication strategies, thereby strengthening your connection. And that connection will position you to guide your child to bounce back from life’s challenges and forge a meaningful and successful life.

Psychologist Dr. Robin Smith reveals how to turn vows made at the altar into realistic plans for a long and happy marriage. Dr. Robin Smith advises couples on how to take the wedding vows that were made in earnest and in innocence, to a level where they can be used to build a happy, healthy...

Ciencia, experiencia y emoción para entender y acompañar al adolescente que tenemos en casa, con toda la solvencia de una gran prescriptora. Hay etapas de la crianza que desbordan a las familias, y pocas generan tanta incertidumbre y desconcierto como el fin de la infancia. En Adolescencia...

Nadja Engsig fra TV2-dokumentaren ”Nadja og de 170 kilo” fortæller i denne bog sin personlige historie om en kaotisk barndom, hvor mad blev det eneste faste holdepunkt. Om svigt, smerte og sorg – og et tiltagende misbrug af makrelmadder, marsbarer og mayonnaise. Hvordan bliver man et helt...

¿Y si tu cuerpo ya tuviera todas las herramientas de curación que necesita? La doctora Victoria Maizes, pionera de la medicina integrativa, nos descubre el «reflejo de recuperación rápida», un mecanismo biológico que ayuda al organismo a restablecer el equilibrio cuando una enfermedad...

What if the answer to the youth mental health crisis isn’t less screen time—but instead, more independence? We have spent the last few decades laser-focused on improving safety for children. We have supervised them more, and made their lives more achievement-oriented, with the good...

The long-awaited follow-up to the million-copy bestseller The Out-of-Sync Child, presenting information and advice for tweens, teens, and young adults living with Sensory Processing Disorder, and their parents. The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up will be the new bible for the vast...

What is social media doing to our brains? How can we make sure smartphones don't affect our health? How do we overcome jealousy, cyberbullying and the ever present FOMO? These are some of the questions that social psychologist Aleks Krotoski addresses in this series aimed at teenagers and their parents. She delivers the latest science about screentime to help you make the right decisions about how much, or how little, to use technology in your life.

A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades 6-8 as a distinct developmental phase--and the perfect time to set up kids to thrive. Middle school is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it's either written off as an uncomfortable rite of passage or...

If your son or daughter is suffering from anxiety, you probably have more questions than answers: What is causing the anxiety? Is this normal teenage angst or something more serious? What can I do to help? Jessica Thompson, the mother of three teens, has seen kids struggle with anxiousness. She wants you to understand the issues surrounding teenage anxiety and how our culture, the church, and perhaps even you may be contributing to the problem.

Be the parent your teenager needs. Parenting coach and expert in child development Anita Cleare shares her practical answer to the most common question she receives from parents: how to deal with their withdrawn teenager, with tried-and-tested methods that really work. There are lots of reasons...

Ist Ihr Sohn auf einmal schnell gereizt, diskutiert wegen Kleinigkeiten und zieht sich im nächsten Moment zurück? Die Vorpubertät bei Jungen ist die oft unterschätzte Zwischenphase: Der Körper beginnt leise umzubauen, das Gehirn sortiert sich neu, Freundschaften und Status werden wichtiger – und als Eltern stehen Sie plötzlich zwischen Nähe und Loslassen. Dieser Ratgeber hilft Ihnen, die Vorpubertät Ihres Sohnes wirklich zu verstehen – und gibt Ihnen ein praxiserprobtes „Navigationssystem" an die Hand, mit dem Sie gelassen führen, ohne zu klammern, und konsequent bleiben, ohne hart zu werden.

In her New York Times op-eds, Mathilde Ross, MD charms parents with down-to-earth perspective, empowering messages, and wry wit. Now, with How to Thrive at College, Ross distills the lessons from her two-decade career in college mental health, clearing up public confusion on the subject of...

A clear-eyed child psychiatrist reveals how “therapy speak” and the culture of self-diagnosis is reshaping the inner lives of adolescent girls and young women—and what to do about it. “Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell takes on the current issue of diagnosis as identity and, with vivid examples...

Master adolescent psychology and transform your parenting approach with this empathetic guide to the developing mind. Whether you are navigating unpredictable mood swings or seeking ways to support newfound independence, this listen offers immediate relief. Discover the rapid neurological...