Easing Their Stress: Helping Our Girls Thrive in the Age of Pressure

by Roni Cohen-Sandler

Overview

Today’s teenage girls are in a pressure cooker of expectation. They are told to excel in academics, juggle extracurricular activities, become popular, look great and get into an elite college. As a result they are experiencing debilitating stress that threatens their health and well-being, and their ultimate success. Based on a study of 3,000 teens, Dr. Roni Cohen-Sandler’s groundbreaking book is filled with eye-opening, real-life stories, invaluable insights into girls’ greatest self-esteem issues, study strategies, and pragmatic strategies to boost their resilience, confidence and self-esteem. <strong><em>Easing Their Stress: Helping Our Girls Thrive in the Age of Pressure</em></strong> offers key parenting help tools for helping teen girls excel during adolescent development, and to gain insight as to what is really going on in a teenage daughter’s life. This teenager parenting guide provides advice on what steps teen girls can take to reduce social anxiety, adolescent conflict, and to create greater happiness for the family as a whole.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148685586
Publisher:	Author & Company
Publication date:	10/21/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

<strong>Dr. Roni Cohen-Sandler</strong> is a clinical psychologist specializing in parenting; the issues of women and adolescent girls, mother-daughter relationships; the impact of stress on girls; and neuropsychological assessments (i.e. learning difficulties and attention disorders). An energizing, humorous, and inspiring speaker, she presents lectures and workshops to public and private schools, community organizations, hospitals, corporations, and universities. She is the author of three other books, the national bestseller <strong><em>I’m Not Mad, I Just Hate You! </em></strong>, <strong><em>Trust Me, Mom</em></strong> and <strong><em>Stress Sucks! A Girl’s Guide to Managing School, Friends & Life </em></strong>. Dr. Roni has frequently appeared on such national shows as <em>Today</em>, <em>Good Morning America</em>, NPR and <em>Oprah</em>. She has been cited in numerable periodicals, including <em>Newsweek, <em>The New York Times</em>, <em> USA Today</em>, <em>The Chicago Tribune</em>, <em>The Boston Globe</em>, <em>Marie Claire</em>, <em>Better Homes and Gardens</em>, <em>Seventeen</em>, <em>Parenting</em>, <em>Teen People</em>, <em>Family Circle</em>, <em>Teen Vogue</em>, <em>Redbook</em>, <em>Working Mother</em>, and <em>Glamour</em>. She lives in Connecticut where she maintains a private practice. She is married and the mother of two children, a daughter and son.