Surviving Adolescent

The must-have manual for all parents

by Michael Carr-Gregg

'Great parenting is about striking a balance between being an army sergeant and a Mother Teresa.'

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 teenages - 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
  

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg 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.

He was founder of the world's first national support group for teenage cancer patients, CanTeen (The Australian Teenage Cancer Patient's Society).  He is the consultant psychologist to many schools and national organisations, an official ambassador for the federal government's youth suicide prevention programs Beyond Blue and Mindmatters, and appears on Channel Nine's Today Show.  He has written two books on parenting adolescents and is a columnist for Girlfriend and Australian Doctor magazines.  He has won many awards for his work.