Adolescent Development

En la educación de sus hijos, los padres buscan enseñarles a vivir y a convivir, a prevenir situaciones de riesgo, agresivas y frustrantes. Pero, lamentablemente, esto no siempre es posible, de ahí que sean necesarios libros tan reales y eficaces como este del psicólogo Javier Urra, con larga experiencia en estos asuntos.

Într-o lume în care cantitatea de informații oferite atât părinților, cât și copiilor este atât de mare, încât a devenit prea greu de gestionat, "Ține-ți copiii aproape" te învață să-ți asculți instinctele și să devii un observator atent al fiului sau al fiicei tale. Cu o extraordinară experiență clinică în domeniul dezvoltării copilului, Gordon Neufeld și Gabor Maté descompun în termeni simpli noțiuni interdisciplinare din psihologie, neurologie și antropologie, pe care le îmbină abil atât cu experiențele personale, cât și cu ale pacienților care i-au inspirat.

Parenting just got tougher. As your child's brain rewires, hormones kick in, and independence beckons, a perfect storm for family conflict emerges. But help is at hand. Divided into two sections—aged 8 to 10 and aged 10 to 12—this practical parenting book is grounded in evidence-based psychology, exploring the science at work during this period of your child's development. Taking 75 everyday scenarios, the book tackles real-world issues head-on, from sibling clashes and sulks to more serious concerns as your child edges towards their teenage years.

Anxiety, depression, and their dangerous manifestations - substance abuse, eating disorders, self-injury, and suicide - are increasing student conditions at many competitive high schools. Paradoxically, most of these schools promote themselves as being committed to students' holistic development in academics, athletics, and the arts, and in their personal, social, and emotional growth. So why are so many students struggling?

In The Teen Interpreter, psychologist Terri Apter looks inside teens’ minds—minds that are experiencing powerful new emotions and awareness of the world around them—to show how parents can revitalize their relationship. She illuminates the rapid neurological developments of a teen’s brain, explains the power of teenage friendships, and explores the positives and pitfalls of social media.

Quelli dell'adolescenza sono anni che mettono alla prova sia i figli sia i genitori. Un'età che può togliere serenità in famiglia ma durante la quale si gettano le basi per aiutare le nostre ragazze e i nostri ragazzi a diventare adulti consapevoli. Quali strategie si possono mettere in atto per guidarli in una fase così delicata? Quali comportamenti sono da adottare per continuare a essere presenti senza diventare soffocanti e rispettando il loro bisogno di libertà? In che modo i genitori si possono aiutare tra loro nel nuovo gioco di squadra educativo?

The narrator and central character of The Adolescent is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy full of ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others.

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.

Navigating parenthood is hard enough on its own. If you are faced with a blended family situation or are worried about your child’s emotional development, you may have spent hours looking for ways to help you on your parenting journey. Many people struggle with emotionally unresponsive children or have trouble navigating a new life with their stepchildren. If you have tried disciplinary techniques that don’t work, it may be your approach that needs to change. Welcome to the simple road map you have been looking for!

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.

Dr. Roni Cohen-Sandler shows mothers how to handle the modern challenges of parenting teenage girls, drawing upon dozens of interviews with teenagers and their mothers, decades of clinical experience, and her own experience raising a daughter. With clear, practical advice, she provides insights and strategies for how you can better understand your daughter and what she's going through, maintain a close and loving relationship with her, keep her safe, and help her become a resilient, capable, confident, and healthy young woman.

Now you have raised a baby first and then a child, so now its time to raise a teenager. The bigger they are, the bigger problem they bring. At the same time you will develop your own skills during the road. But the road might be bumpy and you will never know what to expect. It might be calm or it might be a stormy journey, and not all but a lot of it is a reflection of your own behavior in different situations, and some of it is the personality of the teenager itself.

9 Ways to a Resilient Child will help parents enable their children to cope with the challenges that life throws at us all. Discover why winners aren't always grinners, the problems with common advice like 'toughen up, princess', the negative impact of helicopter parenting and how praise can harm instead of help. Understand both the protective and the risk factors affecting resilience for better or for worse.

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.

¿Estás a punto de convertirte en padre o madre y sientes curiosidad por el fascinante proceso del crecimiento y desarrollo, desde la formación de unas simples células hasta la adolescencia? ¿Te desconciertan los repentinos cambios de humor y los actos rebeldes de tu hijo adolescente, y desearías poder entender cómo funciona su mente para poder ver las cosas desde su perspectiva y fomentar interacciones más armoniosas?

Raising a teenage girl can be overwhelming for the most important female figure in her life: her mother. From handling the often delicate situations surrounding academic performance, athletics, friendships, sexual activity, and drug and alcohol experimentation to instilling a healthy body image and providing a strong role model, mothers often feel alone in their struggle to cope with all that they must do for their daughters.

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.

Best-selling author Tim Austin notes, "We live in a troubled world, where raising loving, responsible young men is a challenge." He takes a deep look at the important issues relevant to raising “rugged gentlemen” in a world where it is necessary to, sometimes, give them “permission to be tough".

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.

Parenting just got tougher. As the teenage brain rewires, hormones surge, and independence beckons, a perfect storm for family conflict emerges. But help is at hand. This uniquely practical parenting audiobook for raising teenagers in today's world is grounded in evidence-based psychology, exploring the science at work during this period of child development and showing how your behavior and response as a parent has never been more important.