Inside the Teenage Brain: Parenting a Work in Progress - Hardcover

Feinstein, Sheryl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1607091186 ISBN 13: 9781607091189

Publisher: R&L Education, 2009

Synopsis

Teenagers are perplexing, intriguing, and spirited creatures. In an attempt to discover the secrets to their thoughts and actions, parents have tried talking, cajoling, and begging them for answers. The result has usually been just more confusion. But new and exciting light is being shed on these mysterious young adults.

What was once thought to be hormones run amuck can now be explained with modern medical technology. MRI and PET scans view the human brain while it is alive and functioning. To no one's surprise, the teenage brain is under heavy construction! These discoveries are helping parents understand the (until now) unexplainable teenager. Neuroscience can help parents adjust to the highs and lows of teenage behavior. Typically, this transformation is a prickly proposition for both teens and their families, but the trials and tribulations of adolescence give teenagers a second chance to develop and create the brain they will take into adulthood.

About this title

About the Author

Sheryl Feinstein is associate professor at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She consults at a correctional facility for adolescent boys and at a separate site for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed adolescents in Minnesota. She is a former teacher, curriculum coordinator, and director of a high school alternative program.

Review

Sheryl Feinstein has written a book that every parent of a teenager should read. It is filled with practical information, illuminating examples, and―most important―hope. Readers will walk away not only with tools to feel confident in their role as parents but also with appreciation for their teenage child. (Susan Eva Porter, teacher, clinician, consultant, and author Relating to Adolescents)

In this timely and compelling book, Feinstein has integrated the wisdom of psychology and evidence from brain-based research to offer insight into the world of the digital generation of teenagers and food for thought for parenting teenagers. Strategies for communicating and parenting teenagers are illustrated through lively examples and supported by research that is presented in a down-to-earth and readable style. (Linda S. Behar-Horenstein, professor of educational leadership, policy, and foundations at the University of Florida, Gainesville)

This book is right on target when it comes to understanding the teen brain. Using emerging research, Feinstein translates the science into practical strategies that work! Every parent of an adolescent should read this book. Better yet, read it before your child becomes an adolescent―be prepared! (Marilee Sprenger, member, American Academy of Neurology and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society; author of numerous books)

The author explores the topic that is urgent and timely in the rise of the new millennium. The book is intelligently crafted and full of wisdom and useful admonitions. Parents, educators, psychologists―all who are in any way deals with teenagers can benefit from it. A big and engrossing book. Great! (Ilghiz M. Sinagatullin, professor, Department Chair of Pedagogy and Elementary Education, Birsk State Socio-Pedagogical Academy)

Feinstein provides practical advice, but what makes her book particularly interesting is the insight on how the adolescent brain functions. (Booklist 2010-01-01)

Reading this book was a delight―the result of the author's weaving a fast-flowing, persuasive narrative from several strands of information and reasoning. Those strands include recent research on adolescent thought processes, a parent's experience with raising teenagers, interviews with adolescents, and observations of adolescents interacting with adults and peers. The conversational writing style features well-reasoned suggestions about productive ways for adults―especially parents―to treat teens. I'm convinced that the author truly knows what she is talking about. (R. Murray Thomas, professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of several books, including Sex and the America)

About this edition

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1607091186
• ISBN 13: 9781607091189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 148