Flagging the screenager : guiding your child through adolescence and young adulthood / Harry Barry and Enda Murphy.
By: Barry, Harry [author.]
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Contributor(s): Murphy, Enda (Cognitive behavioural therapist) [author.].
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BookPublisher: Dublin : Liberties Press, 2014Description: 343 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781909718265 (paperback).Subject(s): Adolescent psychology | Parent and teenagerDDC classification: 649.125 Summary: "Are you floundering as you try and guide your teenager through adolescence? Are we truly hearing what young people are saying to us, as parents? Why are so many adolescents in emotional distress, and are we addressing their pain? Are there special skills that both you and your adolescent could develop for this screen-dominated world? Our understanding of the developing brain can help us on this journey. In Flagging the Screenager: Guiding Your Child Through Adolescence and Young Adulthood, Dr Harry Barry and Enda Murphy - two of Ireland's leading experts on mental health - outline the challenges faced by young people in today's fast-paced, technology-saturated world, and provide advice on dealing with these challenges. Discussing everything from low mood and depression to peer pressure and cyber-bullying, Flagging the Screenager answers frequent questions, by looking at what is going on in the brain of the "screenager". Dr Barry and Murphy highlight what parents, teachers, therapists and professionals in mental health field can do, to help stabilise young people s mental health throughout their journey from adolescence to adulthood" -- back cover.
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Flagging the Screenagers deals with the hidden world of the teenager and young adult. It is a practical survival guide for parents and relatives faced with the struggles of raising adolescents and young adults between the ages of 13 and 25. Dr Barry and Murphy look at what is going on in the brain and mind of the latter and discuss the skills parents need to learn to survive. This book specially discusses mental health in relation to teenagers, helping parents in guiding their child through adolescence and young adulthood.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-337).
"Are you floundering as you try and guide your teenager through adolescence? Are we truly hearing what young people are saying to us, as parents? Why are so many adolescents in emotional distress, and are we addressing their pain? Are there special skills that both you and your adolescent could develop for this screen-dominated world? Our understanding of the developing brain can help us on this journey. In Flagging the Screenager: Guiding Your Child Through Adolescence and Young Adulthood, Dr Harry Barry and Enda Murphy - two of Ireland's leading experts on mental health - outline the challenges faced by young people in today's fast-paced, technology-saturated world, and provide advice on dealing with these challenges. Discussing everything from low mood and depression to peer pressure and cyber-bullying, Flagging the Screenager answers frequent questions, by looking at what is going on in the brain of the "screenager". Dr Barry and Murphy highlight what parents, teachers, therapists and professionals in mental health field can do, to help stabilise young people s mental health throughout their journey from adolescence to adulthood" -- back cover.