Adolescent Development

Many smart students reach a point where they feel overwhelmed and stressed out. As their grades drop, so does their self-esteem, and this combination of external and internal pressures can seem insurmountable. To make matters worse, students feel unable to ask for or accept help. In The Disintegrating Student, Jeannine Jannot, PhD, draws on her decades of experience as a school psychologist, educator, and student coach to explain the reasons for this increasingly common phenomenon.

All parents want their daughters to become confident, happy, self-sufficient women, but the turbulent years of early adolescence can be difficult to navigate. From Tweens to Teens invites parents to rethink how they prepare their daughters to face these difficult developmental years.

Being a teenager has never been easy, but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging. Bullying, once thought of as the province of queen bees and goons, has taken on new, complex, and insidious forms, as parents and educators know all too well.

With four young daughters and a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves halfway across the country, to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her daughters. The two oldest, Amanda, 14, and Stephanie, 13, have a symbiotic relationship so intense they barely know where one begins and the other leaves off. They

Tutto è iniziato con l'ingresso alle scuole medie. Fino a ieri vostro figlio era un bambino angelico, e ora di colpo è pronto a darvi battaglia su tutto, pensa solo a divertirsi e vive di emozioni intense e improvvise, come sulle montagne russe. Lo tsunami che vi sta travolgendo si chiama preadolescenza, e sappiate fin da subito che non c'è cura; ma un segreto per sopravvivere, sì: capire cosa sta succedendo in un cervello in piena evoluzione, che funziona in modo diverso rispetto a quello di un adulto.

La adolescencia no es una etapa fácil, ni para los hijos que la sufren ni para la familia que los rodea. Las autoras de este libro proponen dos caminos: entender el proceso de construcción de identidad del adolescente (y sus cambio emocionales,hormonales, corporales e intelectuales); y garantizar la comunicación y el apoyo que ellos necesitan.

Every day, adolescent girls face a complex and challenging social world influenced by popularity. As parents, we benefit from having the resources to help our daughters navigate times of difficulty and vulnerability because with the right support, these experiences can also deliver girls with their greatest learnings. In this groundbreaking book, clinical psychologist Dr. Mary Kaspar deconstructs popularity and its links to our girls' well-being. She illustrates how the type of popularity that most girls crave is not the type that will improve their lives.

De repente, seu filho não é mais uma criança. Mas também ainda não é adolescente! Ou, para complicar ainda mais, às vezes se comporta como um, às vezes age como outro. Para ajudar os pais a entenderem a pré-adolescência, essa fase da vida que vai dos 8 aos 12 anos, a jornalista Daniela Tófoli mostra todas as mudanças que acontecem na cabeça e no corpo do seu filho e aborda os principais desafios dessa etapa baseada em uma ampla análise das pesquisas mais recentes e de entrevistas com especialistas em saúde, educação e comportamento.

By the time children reach adolescence, it's usually too late to change their behavior. That behavior may or may not be out of control, but it is usually such that a parent's most common question is: What can I do? The good news is that they can learn to cope. The purpose of this book is to help parents cope and guide their children, not necessarily change them. This extraordinary book is not just for parents of children who are out of control. It will also help normal families function more smoothly.

Tener abiertos los canales de comunicación con los jóvenes puede ayudarlos a evitar embarazos no deseados y enfermedades de transmisión sexual que les pueden costar la vida. Enseñémoslos a quererse y a convertir el autocuidado en una sana práctica.

Raising teenagers in today's society is more challenging than ever. Helping your teens to avoid drug and alcohol use, value an education, and construct a healthy identity is indeed an achievement. How can you do all of that? Of all your parenting actions, what will have the highest payoff in helping your teenagers? In this book, child-development counselor Dr. Bettie Youngs provides practical suggestions on how you can safeguard your teenagers and teaches you what to do if your child is already at risk.

Genitori che fanno fatica, allergici a ogni forma di ribellione filiale, preparatissimi eppure inspiegabilmente inesperti circa la normalità di come sia fatto un essere umano lungo la linea evolutiva: sono coloro che chiedono aiuto in seduta, ma anche sui social e in radio, a Stefania Andreoli, una delle più importanti terapeute dell'adolescenza, davanti alle trasformazioni dei figli, che incutono la paura di aver sbagliato tutto E ancor più in questa epoca, quella in cui gli "adolescenti" sembrano essere scomparsi, non avendo spesso ricevuto regole da trasgredire.

Dr. Michael Carr-Gregg is a leading authority on teenage behavior. Surviving Adolescents is the sensible, sanity-saving guide every household needs. Young people today enter puberty earlier than ever before and leave home later. The good news is that teenagers aren't impossible to live with, especially if parents adopt the common-sense strategies set out in this book.

Eating Disorders, depression, gender confusion - these sound like problems for other people, but the reality is your students are dealing with them every day. The issues that girls face are growing in complexity and number. Written with the end user in mind, this resource will be one that won't leave a youth worker's hands.

We Need to Talk About Divorce: An IMPORTANT book about Separation, Stepfamilies, and Feeling Heard features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun! A kid-centric guide for the children of parents going through a separation or divorce, written by internationally renowned...

Over seven million kids in the US suffer from serious anxiety, and that figure has doubled since the pandemic. But 90 percent of kids treated for anxiety using exposure therapy are now experiencing a better quality of life. Could it be the answer for you and your family? Are you concerned that exposure therapy may be too harsh or cruel?

In My Teenage Zombie, David L. Henderson explains the teenage zombie's brain, heart, and spirit; how they got into this undead state; and how to resurrect them back to life. Using real case studies of families he has counseled, he describes both their physical and psychological characteristics and offers practical suggestions on how to deal with, and in many cases avoid, having an undead adolescent in your home.

Aprender cosas por tu cuenta no es difícil. Simplemente lo has estado haciendo mal. ¿Quieres hacerlo bien? He aquí cómo... El autor, empresario y orador motivacional Jim Rohn dijo: "La educación formal te permitirá ganarte la vida; el ser autodidacta te hará ganar una fortuna". Rohn nació en una familia pobre, creció en una granja, fue millonario a los 30, lo perdió todo a los 33 y volvió a recuperarlo.

Esta guía esencial de la serie Salvar la brecha entre padres y adolescentes aborda los difíciles problemas a los que enfrentan los adolescentes y los padres hoy en día.

¿Estás criando a un niño con TDAH que tiene dificultades para concentrarse, seguir las normas o regular sus emociones? Lo que necesita es una guía completa llena de actividades adaptadas al TDAH, técnicas de control del estrés y habilidades de crianza positiva para reducir las luchas de poder y mejorar la cooperación. En este libro encontrarás soluciones prácticas para chicos de entre 3 y 17 años.