Closer to Found: Unlocking Your Teen's Secret Life: A Reader's Guide to Loss and Found

Closer to Unlocking Your Teens Secret Life, a companion piece to Karen Flyers memoir Loss and Found, offers readers real-life and relevant insights on surviving childhood and adolescent traumas; diagnostic and clinical advice for parents and mental health professionals on how to help a troubled child; tips, tools and role play exercises for breaking down barriers of communication between parents and children; and resources available to families who may be dealing with these complex and life-threatening issues. Topics covered include the basics of loss and grief, sexual abuse, alcohol and substance abuse, eating disorders, sexual promiscuity, and depression and suicide ideation.

Karen Flyer, M.B.A. and Executive Director of COPE, a grief organization for parents living with the loss of a child, is a survivor of parental suicide, substance and sexual abuse, a life-threatening eating disorder, and low self-esteem. She is the author of the memoir Loss and Found, which details her tumultuous life. Judy Eldredge-Root, M.Ed., CAGS, is a school psychologist and clinical mental health counselor who has worked since 1983 as a therapist, guidance counselor, instructor in an MA/M.Ed. program, and most recently as a school psychologist working with troubled children, adolescents and teens in and out of a school setting.