Counselling - Parenting: Adolescent Development

Outline the skills, knowledge and strategies parents need to raise their children to be resilient, confident adults.

Adolescence has changed. Young people now enter puberty earlier and leave home later. What's more, modern society expects children to grow up emotionally all too quickly. The good news is that the skills, knowledge and strategies parents need are clearly explained in this book.

Presents advice for eighty situations, covering school, college, drinking, drugs, sexual behavior, phones, social networking, and parenting styles.

Offers parents of teenagers practical advice on how they can build and maintain healthy, strong, mutually fulfilling relationships with their children, with tips from teens on how to deal with issues such as lying, social networking, school, peer pressure, sex, and drugs.

Explains the benefits of sending your children to summer camp or away from home.

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.

Provides a four-stage model of adolescent growth and practical strategies for guiding teenagers to adulthood.

A guide to successful child rearing that combines research and clinical experience and explains how to shift focus to a parenting style that promotes academic success, a sense of purpose, and meaning in life.

Offers guidance and advice for parenting teenagers, including a year-by-year look at the psychological and physical changes which teens go through and discussing how to effectively communicate.

Presents advice for parents on handling children with quick tempers, explaining how to anticipate and lessen the behavior and teach one's child the skills necessary to handle frustration adaptively and become more flexible, socially and emotionally.

Examines the struggles children encounter as they try to survive in school and reveals some of the hidden emotional stresses that exist and the demands put on students to succeed.