Why do they act that way? : a survival guide to the adolescent brain for you and your teen /
A science-based guide to developmental changes within teenage brains explains how they affect behavior, offering advice to parents and educators on how to better understand, communicate, and stay connected with young people while managing their erratic behavior and helping them to resist destructive...
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New York :
Free Press,
2004
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Table of Contents:
- Making sense of adolescence
- A guided tour of their brains
- Why adolescents are impulsive
- Risky business: helping teens put on the brakes
- What we have here is a failure to communicate
- Male and female brains: sexual stereotyping and sexual identity
- Love, sex, and the adolescent brain
- Monkey wrenches in the brain: alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs
- Adolescents and media
- The story behind tired teens
- When things go wrong in the brain: adolescent mental illness
- The psychological and social dimensions of adolescence
- The importance of connection and guidance