Adolescence: How to Survive It: Insights for Parents, Teachers and Young Adults

Adolescence: How to Survive It: Insights for Parents, Teachers and Young Adults

by Tony Little, Herb Etkin
Adolescence: How to Survive It: Insights for Parents, Teachers and Young Adults

Adolescence: How to Survive It: Insights for Parents, Teachers and Young Adults

by Tony Little, Herb Etkin

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Overview

An indispensable book for parents, teenagers and anyone concerned with issues in adolescence, from former headteacher Tony Little and child psychiatrist Herb Etkin.

There is a crisis emerging in the lives of 21st century young people, their parents, teachers and peers. The complex experiences of adolescents with permanent access to technology, growing psychological pressures, increasing competition for grades and eventually jobs mean this generation of teenagers are beset by a range of problems never encountered by their predecessors.

In this book, former Head Master of Eton and bestselling author Tony Little and child and adolescent psychiatrist Herb Etkin tackle the problems faced by adolescents and set out how to combat them. Adolescence: How to Survive It covers a range of subjects from what adolescence actually is, to challenges such as drug use and discipline, character and wellbeing.

The book sets adolescence in context before Little and Etkin engage in a series of question-and-answer dialogues to tackle key issues which are relevant and useful to anyone working or living with adolescents, and the teenagers themselves.

Like Tony Little's bestselling An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education ('Little's 10 top tips for dealing with adolescents are alone worth the cover price' Sunday Times) this is a highly readable and indispensable book for parents, teachers and young people alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472944719
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 06/27/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Tony Little was Head Master of Eton College from 2002 until 2015 and formerly head of Oakham and Chigwell schools. Before that he was a boarding school housemaster. Since 2015 he has worked extensively with schools around the world. He is the author of an Intelligent Person's Guide to Education (Bloomsbury Continuum).

Herb Etkin M.B., B.Ch. FRCPsych.,DPM was in general practice before specialising in psychiatry. He was a clinical tutor and consultant psychiatrist in southern England and chair of the Association of Clinical Psychiatrists. He was also medical director of Ticehurst House Hospital, now part of the Priory group, and expert witness to child and family courts throughout the UK.
Tony Little was from 2002 until 2015 the Head Master of Eton College. He had previously been the Headmaster of Oakham and Chigwell. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was a scholarship boy at Eton and a Choral Scholar. He was then at Corpus Christi College Cambridge and Homerton College. Since 2015 Little has been Chief Education Officer of GEMS (Global Education Management Systems) which was founded in and is run from Dubai.

Table of Contents

Authors' Note

Introduction
1 Adolescence: What is It?
2 Rites of Passage
3 i So What is Normal?
ii The Normal Functions of the Brain
4 Parenting and Family Life
5 Sexuality
6 Food
7 Emotional Turbulence
8 Addictions
9 Screenagers
10 A Glimpse of the Future

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