Book description
At a time when it's never been more difficult to get from twelve to
twenty in one sane, self-confident piece, this book provides
explanations, straightforward advice and strategies, even a script, to
help parents cope with their daughters' body image problems. This is the
truly practical book, Stephanie Pierson looked for in vain when her own
daughter developed anorexia and body image problems. Written with
Phyllis Cohen, a psychotherapist with 30 years of experience of
adolescent problems, there are chapters on why daughters have negative
body images and how mothers can prevent this, staying connected with
your daughter, communicating, daughter's viewpoint, sex, developing a
realistic sense of self, problems of coloured teenagers, health and
nutrition. It provides the warning signs of depression: changes in sleep
patterns, appetite, eating patterns, lethargy, social withdrawal,
irritability; and the danger signs: suicidal thoughts, drug or alcohol
use, self-mutilation, anorexia and bulimia. Stephanie Pierson has
written on teen, family and lifestyle issues for years. She is a
contributing editor for Metropolitan Home Magazine and a creative
director at a New York advertising agency. Her first book, Because I'm
the Mother, That's Why! dealt with issues of raising children and
husbands and was optioned and developed as a sitcom by 20th Century Fox
and CBS. She is the co-author of Merilu Henner's book I Refuse To Raise
A Brat and has recently written Vegetables Rock! about teenage
vegetarianism which has won numerous awards. She has appeared on Oprah.
Phyllis L Cohen is a Clinical Social Worker and Psychotherapist, who has
had a full-time private practice in Manhattan and Brooklyn for over
twenty years. She is a lecturer on issues of adolescence, a former
co-founder and Clinical Director of Brooklyn Center for Families in
Crisis, Director of Thomas Asleen Youth Project of JBFCS and director of
Female Adolescent In-Patient Service at Kings County/Downstate Medical
Center.
