Your Adolescent: Emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Development from Early Adolescence Through the Teen Years

by David Pruitt and AACAP

Book Overview

From self-esteem to peer pressure to experimenting with sex and drugs, this text addresses teenage development clearly and compassionately. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060956763
• ISBN13: 9780060956769
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

your adolelescent

very interesting book helped me immensley understanding how to approach my teenage son regarding topics which are quite sensitive for him,

Your Adolescent: Emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Development from Early Adolescence Through th

After searching for years for more info about my son, I found much that was very beneficial in addressing his condition. We've now been put in contact with an excellent center, where he will be properly diagnosed and have therapies offered to him.

Understanding Your Adolescent

This is a wonderful resource for parents and others working with adolescents. Clear and concise information is provided about normal and abnormal social, emotional, and behavioral development of the adolescent. Advise is given for understanding and dealing with behaviors.

Help for understanding your Adolescent child

Your Adolescent is a wonderful book from the trusted professionals at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. It includes information on normal development, developmental milestones, physical, behavioral and emotional growth.Another major section has advice on simple day to day problem behaviors that all parents will encounter, including problems at home and in school. The last section has information on more serious problems, such as behavioral and emotional disorders, substance abuse, eating disorders, and psychotic disorders.All of the advice and information will help you raise a happy and healthy teenager. The book is well written and easy to read and makes a handy reference book. It also includes an appendix with information on medicines used in psychiatry, a discussion of tests used in diagnosing problems in adolescents and it has a glossary of common medical terms.Overall, I highly recommended this book to all parents of adolescents.