When Worry Works: How to Harness Your Parenting Stress and Guide Your Teen to Success
Helps parents manage the stresses of adolescent achievement culture and to make decisions which align with their values, rather than their anxiety.

WHEN WORRY WORKS responds to one of the primary sources of the nation’s worsening adolescent mental health crisis – achievement pressure. Burdened by the mounting pressures on today’s youth, parents seek ways to strike the balance between supporting their teens’ current well-being while also setting them up for future success. Eager to take action and to manage their escalating fears, parents inadvertently and unknowingly exacerbate the problem by overlooking their own parental achievement anxiety.

Based on thirty years of clinical practice and her experiences raising her own teenagers in New York City, the work demonstrates that when parents become aware of their individual anxieties and learn to effectively manage them, they are empowered to make values aligned, rather than worry driven parenting decisions. Dr. Dorfman provides practical evidence-based parenting strategies, exercises, and reflective prompts to guide parents through a process to constructively apply to their day-to-day parenting decisions.

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When Worry Works: How to Harness Your Parenting Stress and Guide Your Teen to Success
Helps parents manage the stresses of adolescent achievement culture and to make decisions which align with their values, rather than their anxiety.

WHEN WORRY WORKS responds to one of the primary sources of the nation’s worsening adolescent mental health crisis – achievement pressure. Burdened by the mounting pressures on today’s youth, parents seek ways to strike the balance between supporting their teens’ current well-being while also setting them up for future success. Eager to take action and to manage their escalating fears, parents inadvertently and unknowingly exacerbate the problem by overlooking their own parental achievement anxiety.

Based on thirty years of clinical practice and her experiences raising her own teenagers in New York City, the work demonstrates that when parents become aware of their individual anxieties and learn to effectively manage them, they are empowered to make values aligned, rather than worry driven parenting decisions. Dr. Dorfman provides practical evidence-based parenting strategies, exercises, and reflective prompts to guide parents through a process to constructively apply to their day-to-day parenting decisions.

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When Worry Works: How to Harness Your Parenting Stress and Guide Your Teen to Success

When Worry Works: How to Harness Your Parenting Stress and Guide Your Teen to Success

by Dana Dorfman PhD
When Worry Works: How to Harness Your Parenting Stress and Guide Your Teen to Success

When Worry Works: How to Harness Your Parenting Stress and Guide Your Teen to Success

by Dana Dorfman PhD

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Overview

Helps parents manage the stresses of adolescent achievement culture and to make decisions which align with their values, rather than their anxiety.

WHEN WORRY WORKS responds to one of the primary sources of the nation’s worsening adolescent mental health crisis – achievement pressure. Burdened by the mounting pressures on today’s youth, parents seek ways to strike the balance between supporting their teens’ current well-being while also setting them up for future success. Eager to take action and to manage their escalating fears, parents inadvertently and unknowingly exacerbate the problem by overlooking their own parental achievement anxiety.

Based on thirty years of clinical practice and her experiences raising her own teenagers in New York City, the work demonstrates that when parents become aware of their individual anxieties and learn to effectively manage them, they are empowered to make values aligned, rather than worry driven parenting decisions. Dr. Dorfman provides practical evidence-based parenting strategies, exercises, and reflective prompts to guide parents through a process to constructively apply to their day-to-day parenting decisions.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538164532
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 01/30/2023
Pages: 218
Product dimensions: 5.89(w) x 8.55(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Dana Dorfman, MSW, PhD, is a New York City based psychotherapist with 30 years experience treating adolescents and parents in her private practice, schools, and agency settings. Dr. Dorfman is regularly interviewed and quoted in the media on mental health topics and was the co-host of a parenting podcast, 2 Moms on the Couch. Dr. Dorfman resides in NYC with her husband, her teenage daughter and son, and their beloved dog, Winnicott.

Table of Contents

WHEN WORRY WORKS

How to Harness Parenting Stress and Guide Your Teen to Success

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PART I

WHY, WHAT AND HOW PARENTS WORRY

CHAPTER 1: THE DILEMMA DU JOUR ………………………. 1

CHAPTER 2: ANXIETY IS THE NEW SUGAR …………………14

CHAPTER 3: HOW WORRY WORKS ……………………………29

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PART II

PARENT ACHIEVEMENT ANXIETY REACTION TYPES

INTRODUCTION TO PARTS………………………………………..55

CHAPTER 4: THE SCULPTOR ……………………………………..56

CHAPTER 5: THE GAME SHOW CONTESTANT ………………..89

CHAPTER 6: THE CROWD PLEASER ……………………………109

CHAPTER 7: THE AVOIDER………………………………………..124

CHAPTER 8: THE CLAIRVOYANT ………………………………..141

CHAPTER 9: THE SHEPHERD ……………………………………...159

CHAPTER 10: THE CORRECTOR ………………………………….178

CHAPTER 11: THE REPLICATOR ……………………………….191

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PART III

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

CHAPTER 12: THE VALUE OF VALUES……………………… 206

CONCLUSION ………………………………………………………220

BIBLIOGRAPHY……………………………………………………224

APPENDIX …………………………………………………………...229

Parenting Decision Making Worksheet

Values List

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