An Unchanged Mind: The Problem of Immaturity in Adolescence

McKinnon M.D., John A.

ISBN 10: 1590561244 / ISBN 13: 9781590561249

Edité par Lantern Publishing & Media, 2012

N° de réf. du vendeur 1590561244-3-33276359

Synopsis :

AN UNCHANGED MIND begins with a clinical riddle: Why are teenagers failing to develop normally through adolescence? We are presented with case studies from a therapeutic boarding school for troubled teenagers: All new students had been deemed treatment "failures" after conventional psychiatric care. All were bright teenagers, full of promise, not obviously "ill." Yet they found themselves unprepared for the challenges of modern adolescence and inevitably failed - at school, at home and among their peers socially. AN UNCHANGED MIND is the discovery of the essence of this problem - disrupted maturation and resulting immaturity. The book explains the problem carefully, with a brief review of normal development and an examination of the delays today's teenagers are suffering: the causes of those delays and how they produce a flawed approach to living. There is a solution. With a sustained push to help troubled kids catch up, symptoms abate, academic and interpersonal functioning improve and parents pronounce their teens miraculously recovered. This remedy is not a matter of pharmacology - and the cure is not in pills. The remedy is, instead, to grow up.

À propos de l?auteur: John A. McKinnon was educated at Harvard, Cambridge University and Yale. He taught at the University of California, San Francisco and directed psychiatry hospital programMEs in Texas and Montana. Disgusted with the mediocrity of "managed" care, he left traditional medical centers to co-found Montana Academy, a therapeutic school for troubled teenagers on a remote ranch near Glacier Park.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : An Unchanged Mind: The Problem of Immaturity...
Éditeur : Lantern Publishing & Media
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Good