Showing titles in Adolescent Psychology

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.

Are you autistic? Are you a parent to an autistic child? Do you support autistic people as a career? This book is for you. This is a comprehensive guidebook into autism. The autistic author has lived through many experiences with ASD including anxiety, depression, psychosis, paranoia, and suicide ideation. This book will help get you through all the ups and downs of autism with grace and a smile. This book takes a look at how to build self-esteem for the autistic child, autistic adult, and parents of children on the spectrum.

For parents, the onset of adolescence becomes an unexpected, even unwelcome surprise, often bringing bewilderment, confusion, and sadness. Harvard educated psychologist Carl Pickhardt offers his 30 years of experience illuminating this parental “We are not in Kansas anymore” moment. Dr. Pickhardt is a comforting and knowledgeable voice, guiding families through each stage of adolescence with effective practices to help their child achieve responsible independence.

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.

Parenting a teenager is not for the faint of heart. It is during these roller-coaster years that frustrated parents find themselves at their wits' end, barely even recognizing their offspring as they move through the teen years. Carl Pickhardt, Harvard-trained psychologist and the voice of reason behind Psychology Today's advice column, "Surviving (Your Child's) Adolescence," shares critical insights and practical tools that parents need to know along their child's rocky road toward independence and adulthood.

Adolescence is widely viewed as the most difficult stage of parenting. Yet despite its importance, we have a limited grasp of what it actually takes to help teens through adolescence. In Letting Go, Demie Kurz offers a deeper understanding of the demanding work of parenting teens and sheds new light on what it takes to produce a successful child. Based on numerous interviews with a diverse group of mothers, Kurz details the negotiations with teens and young adults as well over control, trust, and letting go to offer a portrayal of the real dilemmas contemporary parents face day-to-day.

Experts and the general public are convinced that young people today are trapped in an extended adolescence - coddled, unaccountable, and more reluctant to take on adult responsibilities than previous generations. Nancy Hill and Alexis Redding argue that what is perceived as stalled development is in fact typical. Those reprimanding today's youth have forgotten that they once balked at the transition to adulthood themselves.

The teenage years can be awkward - bodies change and sweat, and smells and spots become part of life. Growing Up has a supportive but straightforward approach that gives you the knowledge ahead of time. Why do boys' voices break? How do hormones work? From managing spots to mending a broken heart, this audiobook has the answers, along with advice for parents and kids on discussing potentially embarrassing topics.

A lo largo de sus 25 años de experiencia como terapeutas familiares, Mark Beyebach y Marga Herrero de Vega han comprobado una y otra vez hasta qué punto los padres se esfuerzan por educar bien a los hijos, por criar personas cariñosas y honestas, ciudadanos responsables y solidarios. Pero también han observado que a menudo esas mismas buenas intenciones terminan llevando a patrones de interacción contraproducentes, que en realidad contribuyen a que esos hijos e hijas se conviertan primero en niños caprichosos, después en adolescentes déspotas y finalmente en verdaderos tiranos.

Cómo ser un imán de atracción es un libro pensado para el despertar de las mujeres hacia su propio poder de atraer lo que quieran a sus vidas, especialmente relaciones armónicas, amorosas, plenas y estables, donde sean valoradas y puedan decidir cómo y con quién entablarlas. En este libro, su autor, Jorge Espinosa, con humor y picardía, nos retrata a través de su experiencia como coach, conferencista y apasionado de las redes sociales, las diferentes situaciones que atraviesan algunas de sus protagonistas en la búsqueda de una pareja, de su seguridad personal...

Ciberacoso, sexting, alcohol, drogas, embarazos no deseados, acoso y fracaso escolar, homofobia, trastornos alimenticios… son algunas de las principales preocupaciones que quitan el sueño a cualquier padre en la actualidad. Sin embargo, estas situaciones o comportamientos pueden evitarse si educamos de forma preventiva a los hijos desde una edad muy temprana.

Das fesselnde Buch erklärt Eltern und Trainern furchtlos, kompetent und verständlich, wie das Gehirn und die Psyche von Sportlern funktioniert. Anhand konkreter Beispiele analysiert der Autor die Auswirkungen von Feedback auf Denken, Wahrnehmung, Aufmerksamkeit und sogar die Qualität der Koordination eines Spielers. Eltern sind sich oft nicht bewusst, wie ihr Einfluss das neuronale Netz ihres Kindes prägt. Das Buch führt Sie in die Tiefen der Neurowissenschaften und der Sportpsychologie ein und vermittelt Ihnen Wissen und Fähigkeiten, um ein besserer Trainer für Ihr Kind zu sein.

O que uma escritora best-seller de ficção juvenil e um psicólogo têm em comum? O fascínio pela adolescência, essa fase do crescimento tão atribulada quanto fundamental na formação do indivíduo. Desse interesse em comum e de inúmeras conversas sobre o tema, nasceu este audiolivro, que tem o objetivo de ajudar mães, pais, familiares e cuidadores a entender, respeitar e ajudar jovens e adolescentes nesse período de sentimentos à flor da pele, emoções exacerbadas, crescimento descontrolado, hormônios em polvorosa e cérebro em expansão.

Do you hate school and wish you had more friends to hang out with? Do you worry that your friends would think you’re weird if they really knew you? Do you censor what you say around ‘em because if they knew what you thought they’d think you’re a freak? Thanks to Dr. J.J. Kelly's Get Real program, a ton of young folks have built adventurous, cool, exciting, and fulfilling lives. Author, psychologist, and CEO Dr. J.J. Kelly spent years in the traditional mental health world, so she knows how broken it is and how little it can make a long-lasting impact for young folks.

For many young people today, the question after high school is, "What now?" Suddenly faced with new freedoms and new responsibilities, life can become very confusing, very fast. Fixed mindsets can cause missed opportunities. Life changes can evoke stress. Young people lose agency of their own lives when they merely react to the world around them. Finding Your Way in Early Adulthood challenges listeners to take charge of their life by working out what they really want. It encourages them to consider new perspectives that lead to wise choice-making and positive outcomes.

Dr. Roger McIntire, father of three, taught child psychology and principles of family counseling and therapy at the University of Maryland for 32 years.

In Jesus’ Silent Years: Parable, Jesus matures through temptation, doubt, and longing. He follows the classic path of the hero: Beginning in an unremarkable mudhole, unknown and undistinguished, innocent and naïve, in Foundations. He steadily moves down into the mainstream of growing up - leaving home, wrestling with his own unique God-man identity.

Depression can greatly impact a young adult’s successful completion of college, leaving them and their parents overwhelmed and anxious about the future. As a Harvard-trained, board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist with over 15 years of experience, Dr. Melissa Lopez-Larson has helped hundreds of parents and young adults overcome depression and successfully complete college.

You find cuts on your child’s inner arm and have no idea how it could’ve happened. You try to find help from your doctor, friends, family, and school counselor, only to find yourself frustrated and confused. It seems as if there is no one to help you understand why or how to treat your child who is suffering. Ten years of experience as a successful pediatrician did not equip Dr. Stacey Winters for finding the best help when her daughter began cutting. From that first day, she researched and sought out any available assistance, only to hit roadblock after roadblock.

¿Por qué los adolescentes no querrían crecer? Con esta interrogante la destacada psicóloga Pilar Sordo abre un debate cuyas respuestas deben ser buscadas por los adultos a partir de la reflexión sobre el tipo de testimonio que estamos siendo para nuestros hijos.