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"MUST READ" "a wowing and enlightening guide for any parent" Parents magazine
FROM BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP:
Overlooked by a society that reinforces impossible standards of “masculinity,” boys who are uninterested in competitive sports or have non-aggressive personalities are often vilified and bullied for being different as they grow up in the shadow of America’s obsession with bigger, faster, richer, and stronger. Compassionate, empowering, and instructive, The Last Boys Picked will help parents, teachers, coaches, and caregivers identify the social and emotional hurdles that these boys face, and offers specific action steps to help any child build resilience and a healthy self-esteem.
Melissa Broder
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 Stop Negotiating with Your Teen:
Strategies for Parenting Your Angry, Manipulative, Moody, or Depressed Adolescent
Can help you to:
- turn a confrontation into an opportunity for communication
- talk to your teen when you don’t know what to say
- respond to disrespectful remarks with dignity and composure
- break through your teenager’s verbal intimidation
- disarm your teenager’s manipulations without escalating the conflict
- manage your teenager’s sense of entitlement or privilege
- balance compassion with the need to hold your teen accountable for his or her choices influence your teenager through genuine engagement
Reviews from Amazon.com
"This may be the most sensible, wise, clear and reader friendly book about parenting adolescents that I have read…. Written with genuineness and humor, I can't imagine any parent not finding themselves between the pages, laughing and learning and coming out with more clarity and a saner family life! "
Deborah MunGavin, Mahopac, NY
"This book is fantastic. I have spent the last ten years learning how to raise a very, very difficult child/teen. Much of what I learned in expensive therapy and specialist programs is covered in Edgette's book - and more effectively than in any of the many, many other books I've read. Stop Negotiating with Your Teen is concise and easy to understand. Edgette has a thorough understanding of these kids and the challenges they present…. she offers a practical, common sense approach to parenting that empowers parents to parent as leaders."
American Abroad, Australia
"On the advice of my best friend I bought the book. I can tell you it has made a difference. A particularly nasty exchange that would have left me totally defeated was instead turned into a real chance for communication because of what I learned in this book….. A very good resource! "
Elizabeth A. Stavely, maryland usa
"As a therapist of twenty years working primarily with teens and their parents, I am constantly looking for books which will help.
This one will do the trick for most parents that I see in my office who seem to need "permission to parent."
Pamela A. Lowell (Barrington RI)
 Adolescent Therapy That Really Works:
Helping Kids Who Never Asked for Help in the First Place
”Janet Sasson Edgette should have been fictitious adolescent Holden Caulfield's therapist. On the evidence of her new book, she is one of those rare adults who understands adolescents' obsession with all things "phony." She writes with chatty authority about what the experience of therapy feels like for teens, mapping the many shoals on which adolescent therapy can founder.”
Book Review by Jim Naughton, senior editor, Psychotherapy Networker
Candor, Connection, and Enterprise in Adolescent Therapy, now published under the title, Adolescent Therapy That Works: Helping Kids Who Never Asked for Your Help in the First Place.
“…the title reflects well Edgette's central argument that openness and honesty are essential in successful therapy. She deals very thoroughly with the engagement issues that recur when working with clients who have been brought to her (usually by parents) with only nominal consent.”
Debate: Division of Educational Psychologists
Clinical Pearls of Wisdom
21 Leading Therapists Offer Their Key Insights
Represented in this collection is the “take-away” message from some of the most popular conference presenters active in the field today. It covers a rich range of perspectives on the most common presenting problems: depression, trauma, anxiety, grief, couples issues, and child and adolescent difficulties.
• Click here to read about Janet’s most recent publication on working with teenagers in therapy!
ARTICLES
“Like Pulling Teeth…”
Getting Your Teen to Talk by Janet Sasson Edgette, Psy.D.
“Like Pulling Teeth…” Part 2
Getting Your Teen to Talk by Janet Sasson Edgette, Psy.D.
Follow this link to read Janet’s response to a New York Times article entitled "When Good Parents Have Bad Children"
By TARA PARKER-POPE
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Avoiding the Responsibility Trap:
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EMPATHY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND CHOICE |
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You are working much too hard at the wrong job—your client's job — and not hard enough at yours— creating a setting and interpersonal climate so compelling that your client can't help but respond. Maybe I know why.
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Learn to sympathize with your child's genuine grievances and dilemmas, and be open to addressing them fairly, but don't allow yourself to be intimidated into overlooking or going along with something you find inappropriate or unacceptable.
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Fifteen-year-old Emily comes home from a week away at soccer camp. Her parents, younger sister, and grandparents haven't seen her since she left. They are looking forward to a dinner out together and some catch up time.
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