Provides questions and answers about the relationship between parents and teenager girls, covering both parent and teen topics, including discipline, managing rebellion, romance, and schoolwork.
Karen Zager, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice in New York, specializing in adolescence, parenting, and relationship issues. She was featured in the MTV Warning Signs anti-violence video, and consulted on the PBS documentary film 5 Girls. She has been interviewed for dozens of magazines and newspapers including USA Today, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Ladies Home Journal, Parent Magazine, Cosmo Girl, Time, and Mademoiselle, and is a regular contributor to YM Magazine. She has frequently been interviewed on TV (Good Morning America, CBS Eyewitness News, Fox 5 News, The O'Reilly Report, The Donohue Show, and Sally Jesse Raphael), as well as on the radio and Web sites to discuss topics of adolescence and parenting. She was the recipient of the American Psychological Association Presidential Citation for contributions to the field of psychology, and the Distinguished Psychologist of the Year Award from Psychologists in Independent Practice of the American Psychological Association. She served as cochair of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Adolescent Girls, and was President of Psychologists in Independent Practice, a Division of the American Psychological Association. She is also a wife and the proud mother of two teenagers.
Alice Rubenstein, EdD, is a psychologist in private practice in upstate New York and the mother of two terrific girls. She is founder and partner in the Monroe Psychotherapy and Consultation Center where she provides individual, family, and relationship counseling. For the past 25 years, much of Dr. Rubenstein's work has focused on adolescents and parenting, including consultation with schools and community agencies that serve teens and their families. Dr. Rubenstein is a core consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Serves Office of Adolescent Health and served as a consultant to the PBS documentary film 5 Girls. She is frequently interviewed by the radio and print media including, Newsweek, Shape, Self, Sassy, and the new Health Scout Web site.
Dr. Rubenstein has served on the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Adolescents Girls, as well as the Task Force on Women and Depression. As Director of the American Psychological Association Division of Psychotherapy Brochure Project, Dr. Rubenstein has spearheaded the development of a series of public information brochures that address issues of concern to both parents and professionals who work with teens. These include Attention Deficit Disorder in Children and Adolescents and A Parent's Guide to Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents. Dr. Rubenstein was chosen as the Distinguished Speaker by the American Psychological Association Office of Continuing Education and is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on how to understand, communicate, and work with adolescents. Dr. Rubenstein is the recipient of the Distinguished Psychologist Award from the Division of Psychotherapy of the American Psychological Association and has served! as President of the Division of Psychotherapy.
