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Adolescent Psychology eBooks

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  • And Then They Stopped Talking to Me

    Making Sense of Middle School

    by Judith Warner ...
    **Through the stories of kids and parents in the middle school trenches, a New York Times bestselling author reveals why these years are so painful, how parents unwittingly make them worse, and what we all need to do to grow up.“As the parent of a middle schooler, I felt as if Judith Warner had peered into my life—and the lives of many of my patients. This is a gift to our kids and their future ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Developmental Assessment of the School-Aged Child with Developmental Disabilities

    A Clinician's Guide

    Children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems who are referred to mental health services for assessment often have undiagnosed mild learning disabilities, and this guide is written for clinicians involved in making such assessments.It provides full guidance on common developmental disorders and their assessment, focusing on mild to moderate disabilities in the school-aged child. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Alone Together

    Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

    by Sherry Turkle ...
    A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner onesTechnology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Jumping Ship: What to do so your children don't jump ship to the world when they get older

    There is a troubling trend showing up among teenagers. They are discontent and rebellious, jumping ship as soon as they think they can survive without the family-- some as young as sixteen years old. Michael Pearl addressed this issue in a series of No Greater Joy Magazine articles in 2006. These have now been compiled into this book, along with new material and an additional two chapters covering ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Met the End

    An investigation of the past, a daughter's duty to herself.

    Met the End*,*a true-crime survival memoir, explores the life and death of John Powell, first known victim of American serial killer Donald Harvey, through the eyes of Powell's daughter, Holly Brians Ragusa. When a motorcycle accident in 1986 left Powell in a coma, the nightmare for Brians Ragusa and her family had scarcely begun: Harvey, a nurse's aid, was poisoning him with cyanide, and when ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Wildhood

    The Astounding Connections between Human and Animal Adolescents

    Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019A New York Times Editor’s PickPeople Best Books Fall 2019Chicago Tribune 28 Books You Need to Read NowBooklist’s Top Ten Sci-Tech Books of 2019**“It blew my mind to discover that teenage animals and teenage humans are so similar. Both are naive risk-takers. I loved this book!”**—Temple Grandin, author of Animals ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mindfulness for the Next Generation

    Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives

    College students and other young adults today experience high levels of stress as they pursue personal, educational, and career goals. These struggles can have serious consequences, and may increase the risk of psychological distress and mental illness among the age group now commonly referred to as "emerging adults." Scientific research has shown that practicing mindfulness can help manage stress ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Dads and Daughters

    How to Inspire, Understand and Support Your Daughter When She's Growing Up So Fast

    by Joe Kelly ...
    Every father can make a huge difference in his daughter’s life.As the primary male role model in a girl’s life, fathers influence their daughters in profound ways, from how they see themselves to what they come to expect from men and the world at large. But men often don’t realize the importance of their interactions or may shy away from too close involvement because of their inexperience, or ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Dilemmas of Desire

    Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality

    Be sexy but not sexual. Don't be a prude but don't be a slut. These are the cultural messages that barrage teenage girls. In movies and magazines, in music and advice columns, girls are portrayed as the object or the victim of someone else's desire--but virtually never as someone with acceptable sexual feelings of her own. What teenage girls make of these contradictory messages, and what they make ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

    And Other Conversations About Race

    The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to discuss racial issues?Beverly Daniel Tatum, a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Teenage Brain

    A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults

    A New York Times BestsellerRenowned neurologist Dr. Frances E. Jensen offers a revolutionary look at the brains of teenagers, dispelling myths and offering practical advice for teens, parents and teachers.Dr. Frances E. Jensen is chair of the department of neurology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. As a mother, teacher, researcher, clinician, and frequent ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Burn Journals

    A Memoir

    by Brent Runyon ...
    **Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors, and Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery.“[The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone.” —Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon**In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • The Gardener and the Carpenter

    What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

    by Alison Gopnik ...
    In The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik, one of the world's leading child psychologists, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective and shatters the myth of "good parenting".Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call “parenting” is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Tiger's Child

    The Story of a Gifted, Troubled Child and the Teac

    by Torey Hayden ...
    From acclaimed author Torey Hayden comes a relatable memoir about a special education teacher who recounts a transforming and transformative relationship with a former student who overcame abuse.Special education teacher Torey Hayden's first book, One Child, was an international bestseller, thrilling readers on every continent. Their hearts were captured by Sheila, a silent, troubled girl who had ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Body Project

    An Intimate History of American Girls

    **The award-winning author of Fasting Girls explores what teenage girls have lost in this new world of freedom and consumerism—a world in which the body is their primary project."Fascinating ... riveting ... Women and girls should read this fine book together." —The New York Times Book Review**A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Why Do They Act That Way? - Revised and Updated

    A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen

    This anniversary edition—revised and updated—goes beyond raging hormones and peer pressure to explain why adolescents act the way they do and what parents and teachers can do about it.Why Do They Act That Way? was the first book to explain the scientific, brain-based reasons behind teens’ impulsive behavior, lack of focus, self-consciousness, territoriality, fatigue, and their quickness to anger ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Empty

    A Memoir

    by Susan Burton ...
    An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still.“Her tale of compulsion and healing is candid and powerful.”—PeopleNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIREFor almost thirty years, Susan Burton hid her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominate... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Emotional Lives of Teenagers

    Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ intense and often fraught emotional lives—and how to support teens through this critical developmental stage—from the author of Untangled and Under Pressure“How are we supposed to get our kids through these daunting years? There are countless books on the subject, but The Emotional Lives of Teenagers ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Never Enough

    When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

    **AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement culture” overtaking our kids' and parents' lives, and a new framework for fighting back**In the ever more competitive race to secure the best possible future, today’s students face unprecedented pressure to succeed. They jam-pack their schedules with AP classes, fill every waking hour with resume-padding ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Adolescents at School, Third Edition

    Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education

    Edited by Michael Sadowski ...
    Series series Youth Development and Education Series
    Adolescents at School brings together the perspectives of scholars, educators, and researchers to address the many issues that affect adolescents’ emerging identities, especially in relation to students’ experience of and engagement with school. The book offers current and preservice teachers a practical understanding of the concept of identity development, particularly as impacted by such factors ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Not To Blame

    Rejected by everyone, can loving foster carer Maggie reach a troubled girl?

    'Could I do that, Maggie? Could I find my mum?'Sixteen-year-old Rebecca has been in care all her life, bouncing from foster carers and children's homes without ever having a permanent home to call her own. Social Services are at a loss as to what to do with the troubled teenager. Prone to violent outbursts and sudden, uncontrollable tantrums, Rebecca has never spent more than a few months in any ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Bad Kid

    A Memoir

    by David Crabb ...
    From comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb, comes a music-filled, coming-of-age memoir about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas.In the summer of 1989, three Goth kids crossed a street in San Antonio. They had no idea that a deeply confused fourteen-year-old boy was watching. Their dyed hair, fishnets, and eyeliner were his first evidence of another world—a place he ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Why Kids Kill

    Inside the Minds of School Shooters

    Ten years after the school massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school shootings are a new and alarming epidemic. While sociologists have attributed the trigger of violence to peer pressure, such as bullying and social isolation, prominent psychologist Peter Langman, argues here that psychological causes are responsible.Drawing on 20 years of clinical experience, Langman offers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • For Parents and Teenagers

    Dissolving the Barrier Between You and Your Teen

    The author of Choice Theory and Reality Therapy offers a powerful approach for helping troubled teens.In his decades as a therapist, Dr William Glasser has often counselled parents and teenagers. His advice has healed shattered families and changed lives. Now in his first book on the lessons he has learned, he asks parents to reject the 'common sense' that tells them to 'lay down the law', ground ... Read more

    $9.49 USD