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The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
Phd Madeline Levine
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Description for The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: VFXC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 204 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780060595852
SKU
V9780060595852
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About Phd Madeline Levine
Madeline Levine, PhD, is a clinician, consultant, and educator; the author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege; and a cofounder of Challenge Success, a project of the Stanford School of Education that addresses education reform, student well-being,and parent education. She lives outside San Francisco with her husband and is the proud mother of three newly minted ... Read more
Reviews for The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
"Useful...clear, sensitive..."
Publisher's Weekly "In this insightful book, Levine eschews the temptation to dismiss problems of privileged teens as overindulgence."
Book List "[Written] with clarity and understanding of the culture of affluence and its pitfalls for parents."
Library Journal "Fresh and important ideas about parenting in the age of affluence..."
Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving ... Read more
Publisher's Weekly "In this insightful book, Levine eschews the temptation to dismiss problems of privileged teens as overindulgence."
Book List "[Written] with clarity and understanding of the culture of affluence and its pitfalls for parents."
Library Journal "Fresh and important ideas about parenting in the age of affluence..."
Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving ... Read more