The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ intense and often fraught emotional lives—and how to support them through this critical developmental stage—from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled and Under Pressure

In teenagers, powerful emotions come with the territory. And as teens contend with academic pressure, social media stress, worries about the future, and concerns about their own mental health, it’s easy for them—and their parents—to feel anxious and overwhelmed. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Parents who read this book will learn:

what to expect in the normal course of adolescent emotional development and when it’s time to worrywhy teens (and adults) need to understand that mental health isn’t about “feeling good” but about having feelings that fit the moment, even if those feelings are unwanted or painfulstrategies for supporting teens who feel at the mercy of their emotions so they can become psychologically aware and skilled at managing their feelingshow to approach common challenges that come with adolescence, such as friction at home, spiking anxiety, risky behavior, navigating friendships and romances, the pull of social media, and many morethe best ways to stay connected to their teens and how to provide the kind of relationship that adolescents need and want

With clear, research-informed explanations alongside illuminating, real-life examples, The Emotional Lives of Teenagers gives parents the concrete, practical information they need to steady their teens through the bumpy yet transformational journey into adulthood.

About the Author

Recognized as a thought leader by the American Psychological Association, Lisa Damour, Ph.D., co-hosts the Ask Lisa podcast and works in collaboration with UNICEF. She also maintains a clinical practice and is a regular contributor to The New York Times and CBS News. Dr. Damour is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls, and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Author Residence: Cleveland, OH

Author Hometown: Denver, CO