The Teenage Body Book, Third Edition provides a vast source of useful information, advice, and resources to help teenagers deal with many of the new, sometimes troubling situations that they face in their formative years. Winner of the American Library Association’s Best Book for Young Adults Award, this groundbreaking guide is fully updated with everything every teenager (and parent of a teenager) needs to know about nutrition, health, fitness, emotions, and sexuality. The Teenage Body Book, Third Edition, provides an indispensable and up-to-date resource for any teen with questions about their bodies, their feelings, the new stresses they face in daily life, or even making healthy lifestyle choices; it provides concrete solutions to important problems a teen may face, and emphasizes reaching out for help to parents and adults when it is needed. Kathy McCoy, Ph.D., is an award-winning author of more than a dozen books. She is a psychotherapist in private practice specializing in parent/teen communication and marital and family conflicts. She is a former assistant to the chancellor at the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles. A former columnist for Seventeen and former editor for ’TEEN, she has written many of articles for national magazines, newspapers and professional journals such as Readers’ Digest, New York Times, Family Circle, and The Journal of Clinical Child Psychology. An online expert specializing in adolescent psychology, she has made numerous appearances on the Today Show and Oprah. Dr. McCoy writes a popular blog “Living Fully in Midlife and Beyond” and hosts the podcast “Living Fully at Any Age” and the video series “Brief Therapy.” Charles Wibbelsman, M.D., is an award-winning author of four books and former “Dear Doctor” columnist for ’TEEN magazine as well as a nationally prominent adolescent medicine specialist. In addition to serving as chairman of the chiefs of adolescent medicine for the Permanente Medical Group of Northern California, he was chief of the Teenage Clinic at Kaiser Permanente, San Fransisco, and is a clinical professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Fransisco Medical School. He was also a member of the Committee on Adolescence for the American Academy of Pediatrics. |