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Adolescent Brain Reaching For Autonomy
Paperback Edition: 1/2007
This book talks about how the teenage brain thinks, feels, learns, and changes on its journey to adulthood. In this enlightening volume, expert educator and scientist Robert Sylwester explains how adults can better understand teenagers through an engaging discussion of the adolescent brain. Readers will
learn how to: mentor adolescents rather than attempt to control them; nurture creativity, imagination, and individuality; and, understand such critical issues as sexuality and bonding, morality and ethics, risk and security, collaboration and autonomy, and more. Easy-to-understand theories, familiar examples, and non technical language make complex research accessible and appropriate for rewarding classroom or family discussion.
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Pages : 157
Publisher : Sage Publications
Publication date : 2007-04
Subjects: Non-fiction, Social Sciences, Sociology, Age Groups: Adolescents