The Romance of Risk - Couverture souple

Ponton, Lynn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0465070760 ISBN 13 : 9780465070763

Editeur : Basic Books, 1998

Synopsis

The Romance of Risk A book which discusses the behaviour of teenagers and puts forward the idea that adolescents do not take risks as a form of rebellion, but do so as a testing process for achieving self-awareness. Case studies are used to demonstrate the author's theory. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Dr. Lynn Ponton has devoted her clinical practice to a particular community teenagers in trouble. Whether these kids are struggling with peers, experimenting with drugs, stealing cars, or having unprotected sex, they have something in common: they are all involved in unhealthy risk-taking. And their parents are scared. How did my child get involved in this dangerous situation?” they ask. And what can I do?”Their fears are justified: today's teens have more opportunities for taking dangerous risks than ever before. But in The Romance of Risk, Dr. Ponton refutes the traditional idea that risk-taking is primarily an angry power struggle with parents so-called teenage rebellion and re-defines it as a potentially positive testing process whereby challenge and risk are the primary tools adolescents use to find out who they are and determine who they will become.This new perspective is revealed in a series of mesmerizing tales about individual adolescents and their families. Among others, we meet Jill, a 13-year-old thrill-seeking runaway; Hannah, a privileged daughter of suburbia who suffers from anorexia; and Joe, a high school senior with a serious drinking problem. Through these stories, we come to understand Dr. Ponton's startling observation that teenagers must confront and experience challenge and risk along the path to self-discovery.For adolescents, the powerful allure of the adult world is equaled only by the fear of failing to find a place in it. Parents can ease that transition into adulthood, however, by promoting healthy risk-taking so that dangerous options will be avoided.In The Romance of Risk, parents will learn how they can begin to understand rather than fear adolescent risk-taking, and how to communicate with their children about it. After all, teenagers will always romanticize risk. But with the support and guidance of parents and other adults, odds are the risks they take will be the right ones.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Lynn Ponton is a practicing clinical psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco. She has written hundreds of articles in publications such as USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times,Clinical Psychiatry News, Science, and Woman's Day.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0465070760
• ISBN 13: 9780465070763
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320