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Under Pressure: Helping Children and Adolescents Build Resilience
Under Pressure: Helping Children and Adolescents Build Resilience
WITH Dr. Lisa Damour
HRP Mamas welcomes Dr. Lisa Damour for an evening dedicated to understanding the pressure children feel - and how we, as parents can nurture their resilience.
Recognized as a thought leader by the American Psychological Association for her work on stress and anxiety, Dr. Lisa Damour is the author of two New York Times bestselling parenting books, Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood and Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls.
Join us as we learn more about:
• Guiding young people through the transitions from childhood to adulthood
• The difference between healthy and unhealthy stress and anxiety
• Staying connected to our children every step of the way
ABOUT DR. DAMOUR
In addition to being the best selling author of Untangled and Under Pressure, Dr. Damour also writes the monthly Adolescence column for the New York Times, serves as a regular contributor to CBS News, maintains a private practice, consults and speaks internationally, is a Senior Advisor to the Schubert Center for Child Studies at Case Western Reserve University, and serves as the Executive Director of Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls.
“Lisa Damour offers a fresh, riveting take on the unsustainable stress girls face today, which is often fueled unintentionally by the most well-meaning parents and teachers. Damour also offers refreshing and research-based practical fixes; it’s possible to normalize pressure, in many cases, and use it in fortifying ways to build strength and confidence. Under Pressure is an invaluable read for anyone who has girls, works with girls, or cares about girls—for everyone!” —Claire Shipman, New York Times bestselling author of The Confidence Code and The Confidence Code for Girls
“Although the book is targeted to parents of school-aged girls, it also has the potential to help adult women…It was reassuring to read Damour’s description about how stressing about stress can indeed lead to more anxiety. Her positive framing of and openness about stress and anxiety is necessary to begin thinking about solutions to the stress epidemic in girls. Under Pressure provides both a helpful understanding of stress and anxiety and practical guidance for both parents and educators in the face of this epidemic.” —Harvard Educational Review
“Lisa Damour's Untangled is the best description of the female adolescent journey that I have ever read. Empathic and wise, every page is filled with a deep understanding of girls and their parents. If you read this book you will know what your daughter is experiencing, and with Damour’s advice, you will know how and when (and when not) to talk to her about it. For years people have been asking me for the ‘girl equivalent of Raising Cain’ and I haven't known exactly what to recommend. Now I do.” —Michael Thompson, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain
“Lisa Damour's Untangled is the best description of the female adolescent journey that I have ever read. Empathic and wise, every page is filled with a deep understanding of girls and their parents. If you read this book you will know what your daughter is experiencing, and with Damour’s advice, you will know how and when (and when not) to talk to her about it. For years people have been asking me for the ‘girl equivalent of Raising Cain’ and I haven't known exactly what to recommend. Now I do.” —Michael Thompson, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain “Finally, there’s some good news for puzzled parents of adolescent girls, and psychologist Lisa Damour is the bearer of that happy news. Untangled is the most down-to-earth, readable parenting book I’ve come across in a long time.” —The Washington Post