by Michael Carr-Gregg

 

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.

 

Surviving Adolescents is a clear and very down-to-earth manual. It has advice on all the thorny issues that confront families with teenagers - sexuality, risky behaviours, laziness, school and study problems, and much more. And it is full of practical tips for everyday survival, including:

Surviving Adolescents is the sensible, sanity-saving guide every household needs.

 

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is one of Australia's leading authorities on teenage behaviour, and as a practising psychologist specialises in the area of parenting adolescents and adolescent mental health.

 

He was a founder of the world's first national support group for teenage cancer patients, CanTeen (The Australian Teenage Cancer Patient's Society). He is the consultant psychologist to many schools and national organisations, an official ambassador for the federal government's youth suicide prevention programs beyondblue and Mindmatters, is the resident psychologist with Channel Nine's Today Show. He has written two books on parenting adolescents and is a columnist for Girlfriend and Australian Doctor magazines. He has won many awards for his work.

 

Paperback. 168 pages.

 

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