Price Of Privilege How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

Name: Price Of Privilege
Author: Madeline Levine

Auteur: Madeline Levine

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Madeline Levine Phd

Co-auteur: Madeline, Phd Levine

Engels
Paperback
9780060595852
01 augustus 2008
246 pagina's

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Privileged adolescents nation-wide are experiencing epidemic rates of emotional problems, more than children from any other socio-economic group, including those in dire poverty. Looking at privileged families, this book aims to dispose of the 'overparenting' paradigm in contemporary times, seeking to explode one child-rearing myth after another.

In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders—rates higher than in any other socioeconomic group of American adolescents. Materialism, pressure to achieve, perfectionism, and disconnection are combining to create a perfect storm that is devastating children of privilege and their parents alike.

In this eye-opening, provocative, and essential book, clinical psychologist Madeline Levine explodes one child-rearing myth after another. With empathy and candor, she identifies toxic cultural influences and well-intentioned, but misguided, parenting practices that are detrimental to a child's healthy self-development. Her thoughtful, practical advice provides solutions that will enable parents to help their emotionally troubled "star" child cultivate an authentic sense of self.

Madeline Levine has been a practicing psychologist for 25 years, but it was only recently that she began to observe a new breed of unhappy teenager. When a bright, affluent 15-year-old girl, a seemingly unlikely candidate for emotional problems, came into her office with the word 'empty' carved into her left forearm, Levine was shaken. The girl and her cutting seemed to personify a startling pattern Levine had been observing among her teenage patients, all of them bright, affluent, and clearly loved by their parents. Behind a veneer of strength, many of them suffered extreme emotional problems: depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. What was going on?Meticulous research confirmed Levine's worst suspicions. Privileged adolescents nation-wide are experiencing epidemic rates of emotional problems, more than children from any other socio-economic group, including those in dire poverty. The various strands of this perfect storm - materialism, pressure to achieve, and parental difficulties with attachment and separation - point to a crisis in America's culture of affluence, a culture that is as unmanageable for children as it is for their parents, particularly their mothers. While many privileged kids have the ability to make a 'good' impression, alarming numbers lack the basic foundation of psychological development - the self. They are bland, disinterested, uncreative, and most of all unhappy. And their parents often fail to see that anything is wrong. A controversial look at privileged families, this book disposes of the 'overparenting' paradigm now in vogue, exploding one child-rearing myth after another.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 augustus 2008
Aantal pagina's: 246
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Hoofdauteur: Madeline Levine
Tweede Auteur: Phd
Co Auteur: Madeline, Phd Levine
Hoofduitgeverij: Perennial

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Originele titel: The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

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Product breedte: 133 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 203 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 124 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 19 mm
Verpakking lengte: 200 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 392 g

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