Identity Trap, Saving Our Teens from Themselves (Innbundet (stive permer))

Nowinski (Tolland, CT) is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut. He was formerly an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. He has counseled teens and their parents for more than 20 years, and has served as a special consultant to major research centers., including Yale University, Columbia University, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Miami, as well as the Connecticut Department of Children and Families.

As they negotiate adolescence, our children become harder to reach - and are more at risk. In order to help them, we need to understand what is really behind their problems. The answer lies in the very nature of adolescence: the quest for identity. The "Identity Trap" gets to the heart of why our teens so easily fall prey to their own worst impulses and to the destructive habits of their peers.