Parenting a Teen Girl: A Crash Course on Conflict, Communication and Connection with Your Teenage Daughter

By Hemmen, Lucie
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages 200
Publisher New Harbinger Publications


Parenting a Teen Girl offers parents effective tips and strategies for understanding the dramatic, confusing highs and lows of adolescence and improving communication with their teenage daughters. Drawn from positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and the author's years of experience, the skills in this workbook will help parents guide their daughters past the challenges of adolescence and toward healthier and more productive behaviors. Page 36 of 83 TIP SHEET TIP SHEET Key Selling Points: ? There are approximately 14 million teen girls in the United States, and they represent a growing, challenging segment of the therapeutic population. 74 percent of girls say they often feel stressed, and 20 percent of girls say they do not know three adults to whom they can turn if they have a problem (Girls, Inc., 2006). During adolescence, girls' self esteem drops twice as much as boys' (Robins 2002), resulting in high rates of depression, eating disorders, self injury, and other dangerous behaviors. ? This workbook offers parents a crash course in parenting their teenage daughters, complete with skills, exercises, worksheets, and scripts they can use right away to help get defiant behavior under control. ? Lucie Hemmen is not only a clinical psychologist who has specialized in working with teenagers for over twenty years, but also the mother of two of her own teen girls