SURVIVING YEAR 12

A sanity kit for students and their parents

by MICHAEL CARR-GREGG

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New softcover book, 206 pages. First published 2004, this updated second edition published 2012.

Every year, more and more emphasis is placed on achieving good results in the end-of-school exams. This can lead to students feeling extraordinary pressure and having unrealistic expectations. In this new edition of Surviving Year 12, Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, Australia's leading adolescent psychologist, gives advice to students on how they can cope with the pressure, work smarter and actually enjoy their final year of high school.

Michael Carr-Gregg writes: One of the new themes I incorporate in this updated edition is that essentially Year 12 is like a game - and once you know how to play the game, your chances of getting what you want out of the year increase significantly.

Dr Carr-Gregg includes advice on:

• how not to get trapped by social media like Facebook and Twitter
• the secrets of studying smarter
• overcoming anxiety and stress
• getting enough sleep (the best study tool of all!)
• setting goals
• dealing with procrastination
• ensuring exercise and diet regimes are good
• how to cope with the exams themselves

Most importantly Dr Carr-Gregg offers humorous encouragement to both students and their parents on how to maintain perspective and keep their sanity intact during this important year. With a special section just for parents, as well as words of wisdom from past students and teachers, Surviving Year 12 is a must-have for final year student and their families.

Contents include

• Foreword by Dr Tim Hawkes
• Take a number and grow with it by Alice Pung
• Introduction
• Putting the year into perspective
• Looking after yourself
• Managing the study thing
• Epilogue
• Author's notes

About the author: 

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg was educated in Kenya, England, New Zealand and Australia. In 1985, he founded the world's first national teenage cancer patients support group, CanTeen - The Australian Teenage Cancer Patient's Society. Michael has worked in private practice as a family therapist, child psychologist and clinical psychologist, as an academic, researcher and he spent 4 years working as a political lobbyist. Michael is one of Australia's highest profile psychologists. He is the consultant psychologist to many schools and national organisations, an official ambassador for the federal government's youth suicide prevention programs beyondblue and Mindmatters, and the resident psychologist with Channel Nine's Today Show. He has written several books on parenting adolescents and is a columnist for Girlfriend and Australian Doctor magazines. He has won many awards for his work. He is one of Australia's leading authorities on teenage behaviour, and as a practising psychologist specialises in the area of parenting adolescents and adolescent mental health. His other books include Adolescence - A Guide for Parents, The Princess Bitchface Syndrome, Real Wired Child, Surviving Adolescents, Surviving Year 12 and Surviving Step-Families .

Most importantly, Michael is married and has two children, supports Hawthorn in the AFL and South Sydney in the NRL. In 2000, he was the subject of a This Is Your Life program on Channel 9. He works in private practice in Melbourne.

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Surviving Year 12 by Michael Carr-Gregg