You and Your Adolescent

by Steinberg, Laurence

• ISBN13: 9780062734617
• ISBN10: 006273461X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-26
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

With the growing problems of teenage pregnancy, AIDS and violence that adolescents have to face, this updated edition of You and Your Adolescent is an important book for parents.Laurence Steinberg and Ann Levine reassure and advise parents, helping them understand family communication, the physical and emotional changes of puberty, intellectual and moral growth, peer pressure, sex, drugs, cigarettes, alcohol and other challenges this period brings. They also provide special advice for single parents, working parents and stepparents. Divided into three periods: 10 to 13, 14 to 17 and 18 to 20, You and Your Adolescent is both easy to read and follow.By taking the mystery out of adolescence, the authors aid parents in making their teenagers development a period of satisfying growth toward adulthood.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Good News about Adolescence	p. 1
What Makes a Good Parent?	p. 11
Family Communication and Problem-Solving	p. 27
Today's Families	p. 46
Puberty	p. 71
Sexual Awakening	p. 102
Talking about Cigarettes, Alcohol, and Marijuana	p. 121
How Young Adolescents Think	p. 139
New Feelings and Emotions	p. 156
The Social Revolution of Adolescence	p. 183
Middle School and Junior High	p. 206
Your Role in Your Adolescent's Education	p. 224
Sex and the High-School Student	p. 247
Drug and Alcohol Use in High School	p. 277
The Search for Identity	p. 299
Problem Behavior	p. 315
Friends and Social Life	p. 327
School and Work	p. 348
You and Your Young Adult	p. 385
Notes	p. 403
Index	p. 417
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