Letting Go (Fifth Edition): A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years

Coburn, Karen Levin,Treeger, Madge Lawrence

ISBN 10: 0061665738 / ISBN 13: 9780061665738

Published by Harper Perennial, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Letting Go (Fifth Edition): A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061665738
• ISBN 13: 9780061665738
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

For more than a decade Letting Go has provided hundreds of thousands of parents with valuable insights, information, comfort, and guidance throughout the emotional and social changes of their children's college years—from the senior year in high school through college graduation. Based on real-life experience and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, this indispensable book has been updated and revised, offering even more compassionate, practical, and up-to-the-minute information.

• When should parents encourage independence?
• When should they intervene?
• What issues of identity and intimacy await students?
• What are normal feelings of disorientation and loneliness for students—and for parents?
• What is different about today's college environment?
• What new concerns about safety, health and wellness, and stress will affect incoming classes?

About the Authors

Karen Levin Coburn is the Senior Consultant in Residence and former Assistant Vice Chancellor for Students at Washington University in St. Louis.

Madge Lawrence Treeger is a psychotherapist and a longtime member of the Washington University Counseling Service.