Saving Our Sons: A New Path for Raising Healthy and Resilient Boys - Softcover

Gurian, Dr. Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098399594X ISBN 13: 9780983995944

Publisher: Gurian Institute, 2017

Synopsis

Boys and their communities are challenged today in ways they have not been before. Dr. Michael Gurian has studied and served children and their families for thirty years. His The Wonder of Boys (1996), is credited with sparking the "boys’ movement." In Saving Our Sons, he features the latest research in male emotional intelligence, male motivation development, neurotoxicity and the male brain, and electronics and videogame use. Linking practical solutions with strategic new policies based on twenty years of field work through the Gurian Institute, Dr. Gurian provides a seven-stage model for the journey to manhood in the new millennium. Moving effortlessly between the practical and the political, Dr. Gurian also tackles social and cultural issues facing our sons. Two of the book’s chapters provide readers with successful ways to challenge governmental and academic institutions, as well as the media, to see boys fully and fairly. In its eight chapters, Saving Our Sons is a unique combination of powerful writing, new research, practical strategies, and passionate social advocacy that helps our nation act on behalf of boys and young men—one home, one school, and one community at a time.

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About the Author

Dr. Michael Gurian is a marriage and family counselor in his twenty-fifth year of private practice and a New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight books, with more than one million copies in print (www.michaelgurian.com) The Gurian Institute, which he cofounded in 1996, conducts research internationally, launches pilot programs, and trains professionals (www.gurianinstitute.com). Dr. Gurian has been called “the people’s philosopher” for his ability to bring together people’s ordinary lives and scientific ideas. Gurian provides between twenty and thirty keynotes and trainings per year and provides consulting to community organizations, schools, governmental agencies, corporations, medical personnel, and faith communities. Dr. Gurian previously taught at Gonzaga University, Eastern Washington University, and Ankara University. His more recent academic speaking engagements include Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, Morehouse College, the University of Colorado, the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and UCLA. His multicultural philosophy reflects the diverse cultures (European, Asian, Middle Eastern, and American) in which he has lived, worked, and studied. Dr. Gurian’s work has been featured multiple times in nearly all the major media, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, Time, Psychology Today, AARP Magazine, People, Reader’s Digest, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Parenting, Good Housekeeping, Family Therapy Magazine, Redbook, and others. Gurian has also made multiple appearances on Today, Good Morning America, CNN, PBS, National Public Radio, and many others. Dr. Gurian lives in Spokane, Washington, with his wife, Gail, a family therapist in private practice. The couple has two grown daughters, Gabrielle and Davita.

Review

"Michael Gurian is a leading-edge teacher with the rare ability to combine the personal, the practical, and the political in very accessible and powerful form. In Saving Our Sons, he has written a real page-turner. This is a very important book." -Daniel Amen, M.D., Author of Unleashing the Power of the Female Brain and The Brain Warrior's Way "Saving Our Sons is an immensely powerful mirror into the state of boyhood. This is a must read for everyone in America and indeed the world who cares about and is caring for boys." -Troy Kemp, Executive Director of The National Center for the Development of Boys

Edition details

• Publisher: Gurian Institute
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 098399594X
• ISBN 13: 9780983995944
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 342