Six Steps to an Emotionally Intelligent Teenager: Teaching Social Skills to Your Teen
Practical parenting ideas for kids from ages 13 to 19
Helping teenagers navigate the rocky years between childhood and adulthood has always been a parenting challenge--a challenge that has only grown more difficult in today's fast-paced society. Noted parenting author and psychologist James Windell knows teens. He interacts with them every day. In this book, he offers exercises and practical ideas on how parents can raise a well-adjusted teenager with a solid chance for a successful life. Unlike so many books on parenting and teens that focus on discipline, this book emphasizes the importance of goal-setting, communication, and the development of social skills during the teen years. It reveals how to develop teens' emotional intelligence by demonstrating to them how they can handle their own emotions and respond constructively to the emotions of others.
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Book details
- Author
- James Windell
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 228
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Family & Relationships › Life Stages › Adolescence
Family & Relationships › Life Stages › Teenagers
Family & Relationships › Parenting - Topics
- parenting teenagers · emotional intelligence · adolescent psychology · communication · goal-setting · self-control
- ISBN-13
- 9780471297673 (Paperback)9781620456019 (Hardcover)
About the author
JAMES WINDELL is a parenting specialist, psychotherapist, and criminal justice instructor who has written more than 39 books on topics including parenting, high-conflict divorce, postpartum depression, and criminal justice.
Windell received the Michigan Psychological Association’s Beth Clark Service Award in 2006 and the Champion of Youth Award from the Oakland County Youth Assistance program in 2006. He earned his Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
When he’s not writing, Windell teaches criminal justice at Wayne State University and Oakland University, and serves as editor of The Michigan Psychologist. He wrote the "Coping With Kids" newspaper column for more than 30 years and spent more than 25 years as a court clinical psychologist with the Oakland County Circuit Court’s Psychological Clinic.
James lives in Michigan.