SURVIVING ADOLESCENTS

The must-have manual for all parents

by MICHAEL CARR-GREGG

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New softcover book, 158 pages.

Young people today enter puberty earlier than ever before and leave home later. The good news is that teenagers aren't impossible to live with, especially if parents adopt the common-sense strategies set out in this book.

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is one of Australia's leading authorities on teenage behaviour. Surviving Adolescents is a clear and very down-to-earth manual, drawing on his wealth of experience and wisdom. It has advice on all the thorny issues that confront families with teenagers – sexuality, risky behaviours, laziness, school and study problems, and much more. And it is full of practical tips for everyday survival, including:

• communicating effectively with young people
• defusing family conflict
• setting limits
• keeping the stress of parenting at bay
• avoiding common mistakes like fighting over things that don't matter

Surviving Adolescents is the sensible, sanity-saving guide every household needs.

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 Adolescents by Michael Carr-Gregg