Letting Go (Fifth Edition): A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years
Coburn, Karen Levin, Treeger, Madge Lawrence
Language: English
Published by Harper Perennial, 2009
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- Title
- Letting Go (Fifth Edition): A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years
- Author
- Coburn, Karen Levin, Treeger, Madge Lawrence
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0061665738
- ISBN 13
- 9780061665738
- Edition
- 5th or later Edition
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?
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About the Author
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.
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