The Emotional Lives of Teenagers

By Lisa Damour,

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*A New York Times bestseller!*

An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers' intense and often fraught emotional lives - and how to support them through this critical developmental stage - from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled and Under Pressure

In teenagers, powerful emotions come…

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Lisa Damour is one of the most well-respected names in public-facing psychology right now, and that is for a good reason.

She brings to this book (and her earlier ones, which are equally excellent) a level-headed pragmatism, an empathetic listening stance to the adolescents who are her clients and subjects, and decades of clinical expertise. You will find no click-bait pronouncements about matters that are far too complex for such treatment in her writing, and no generational sneering.

Her work is also deeply valuable for parents—she digs into actionable advice for anyone working with adolescents today to navigate the challenges…

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