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Teens, Mental Health, and Resilience: Today's Risks and the Role of Active Listening and Responding

Mill Valley (Tam High and MVMS) PTSA Parent Education
present our 2011 Parent Education Conference: Teens, Mental Health, and Resilience:Today’s Risks and the Role of Active Listening and Responding

Speaker--Stephen P. Hinshaw, PhD | Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley

Adolescence is a time of peak physical and mental abilities throughout one's entire life, yet it is also a time of serious risk for accidental injury, risk taking, substance abuse, and a host of debilitating mental disorders. Why this paradox? What are the unique pressures and vulnerabilities at this time of life? And what can parents, in particular, do to respond and communicate with their teens, in the face of messages communicating "back off, I'm independent now"?

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The October 22 Parent Education Conference will be a provocative exploration of these issues with international expert in clinical and developmental psychology, Professor Stephen Hinshaw of UC Berkeley. He is author of 225 articles and chapters and 7 books, including The Triple Bind: Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today's Pressures. Dr. Hinshaw is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Editor in Chief of Psychological Bulletin, the most cited journal in general psychology.

Program
9:00am | Coffee and pastry
9:15 | Introductions
9:30 | Dr. Hinshaw: The Paradox of Adolescence and Today’s Risks
10:30 | Break
10:45 | Dr. Hinshaw: Parenting Solutions
11:45 | Q & A

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