Raising Global Teens: A Practical Handbook for Parenting in the 21st Century

Raising Global Teens: A Practical Handbook for Parenting in the 21st Century

by Anisha Abraham
Raising Global Teens: A Practical Handbook for Parenting in the 21st Century

Raising Global Teens: A Practical Handbook for Parenting in the 21st Century

by Anisha Abraham

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Overview

Globalization has given many of us unparalleled opportunities to work, travel, fall in love, and raise kids all over the world. But it has made being a teen more complicated than ever. Imagine having to discover your identity and place in the world when you keep having to move communities, your parents are from different backgrounds, you're exposed to multiple cultures daily or faced with challenges such as global warming and pandemics. How can we help these teens be happy, healthy, and resilient.

Raising Global Teens explores the hot topics adolescents experience today: identity, social media, body image, traumatic events, puberty, drugs and stress all in the context of our modern, mobile world. In this easy-to-read handbook, Dr. Anisha combines real-world examples with practical solutions, drawing on the latest research, her own experience and that of the many cross-cultural teens she has worked with over the last 25 years. Raising Global Teens enables busy families, health providers, and educators apply powerful tools to help today's adolescents thrive.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781999880842
Publisher: Summertime Publishing
Publication date: 10/01/2020
Pages: 424
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Anisha Abraham, MD, MPH, is a pediatrician and teen health specialist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and on faculty at the University of Amsterdam and Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. She grew up in the US as the daughter of South Asian immigrants and has lived with her husband and two sons in Asia, Europe, and the US. Anisha helps cross-cultural teens manage a wide range of issues from body image to substance use, social media, and stress. She also leads seminars for teens, parents, faculty, and organizations using her 25 years of global experience as a practicing clinician, military physician, public health researcher, TEDx speaker, and health educator. She has been interviewed by NPR, CNN, NBC, Voice of America, RTHK, and The Washington Post. For more information, see www.dranishaabraham.com

Table of Contents

Forewords; Preface; How to use This Book; Introduction; PART I - THE BASICS; 1. Communicating with Global Teens; 2. Identity and Belonging; 3. The Teen Brain; 4. Puberty, Physical Development; 5. Puberty, Emotional Development; PART II - THE BIG STUFF; 6. Sexual Health; 7. Media Use; 8. Stress; 9. Depression, Anxiety, and Self-Injury; 10. Eating Disorders and Obesity; 11. Substance Use; 12. Special Educational Needs and Gifted Teens; PART III - THE FUTURE; 13. Building Self-Esteem and Resilience; 14. Preparing the Global Teen for the Future; Appendix - Survey Results; Bibliography; About the Author; Acknowledgments

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