Lisa Damour, PhD, is a renowned psychologist and CBS News contributor specializing in adolescent psychology. In this enlightening conversation, she discusses the unique challenges today's teens face, from social media's impact on mental health to the pressures intensified by the pandemic. Lisa emphasizes the importance of strong adult relationships and provides actionable strategies for parents to support their teens emotionally. She delves into topics like effective communication, gender identity, and fostering resilience, creating a vital guide for understanding and aiding our youth.
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Teenage Transformation and Stress
Change is inherently stressful, a key principle in psychology.
Teenage years involve rapid transformation, causing stress for teens and families.
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Depersonalizing Teen Behavior
Understand adolescence as a challenging phase teens navigate, not a personal attack on parents.
Adults should adopt a perspective that separates teen behavior from their own emotional responses.
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Why Your Teen Hates How You Chew
Lisa Damour shares a personal anecdote about her daughter's increased irritability during adolescence.
This illustrates the sudden and often unexpected shift in teen behavior, exemplified by the title "Why Your Teen Hates How You Chew".
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Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents
Lisa Damour
This book provides parents with practical, research-informed strategies to support their teenagers through the challenges of adolescence. It covers what to expect in normal adolescent emotional development, why mental health is about having feelings that fit the moment, and how to help teens manage their emotions. The book also addresses common challenges such as academic pressure, social media stress, anxiety, and navigating friendships and romances, emphasizing the importance of maintaining a connected and supportive relationship with teens.
Adolescence has always been a difficult phase of life, but today’s teenagers are navigating a world that is vastly different from any generation before them. From social media to cyberbullying, from political polarization to climate change, the challenges facing teenagers today are numerous and complex. So how do we equip teens emotionally with the tools they need to navigate our complex and ever-changing world? Here to help us answer this question is teen whisperer par excellence, Lisa Damour, PhD.
Lisa is a Yale-educated psychotherapist with a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan who specializes in education and child development. She is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Untangled, Under Pressure, and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers—the latter being the subject of today’s exchange. We explore the impact of social media on mental health, the pressure to succeed academically and professionally, and the struggles that come with trying to fit in and find a sense of belonging. We also look at the ways in which the pandemic has exacerbated some of these challenges, and how teenagers are coping with the disruption to their lives. Lisa provides concrete, actionable strategies for teaching teens how to manage their feelings and overcome friction at home. If you are a parent of young humans trying to make the right moves, or just want to better understand how young people think and why they behave as they do, then this episode is appointment listening.
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