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

Parents, teachers, and mental health workers will find the answersto these- and many other-questions in this forthright yet compassionate guide to helping your adolescent through the tumultuous teen years. From peer pressure and self-esteem to experimentation with sex, alcohol, and drugs, this invaluable resource covers a wide range of pratical issues. Here as well is information on more serious obstacles to a teen's development that may require professional intervention, such as depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, and disruptive behavorial disorders. As surely as every child will become a teen, every person that must relate to a teen will find this book a reliable, indespensable guide to the ups and downs of adolecence.Pruitt, David is the author of 'Your Adolescent Emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Development from Early Adolescence Through the Teen Years', published 2000 under ISBN 9780060956769 and ISBN 0060956763.