Flagging the Screenager: Guiding Your Child Through Adolescence and Young Adulthood: 5 - Softcover

Barry, Harry; Murphy, Enda

 
9781909718265: Flagging the Screenager: Guiding Your Child Through Adolescence and Young Adulthood: 5

Synopsis

Flagging the Screenagers deals with the hidden world of the teenager and young adult. It is a practical survival guide for parents and relatives faced with the struggles of raising adolescents and young adults between the ages of 13 and 25. Dr Barry and Murphy look at what is going on in the brain and mind of the latter and discuss the skills parents need to learn to survive. This book specially discusses mental health in relation to teenagers, helping parents in guiding their child through adolescence and young adulthood.

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About the Author

Dr Harry Barry is a medical doctor based in County Louth. He specialises in the area of mental health and, in particular, depression and anxiety. He is a director of Aware, and a regular contributor to national media on the subjects of mental health and suicide prevention. Dr Barry is the author of several bestselling books, including Flaggging the Problem, Flagging Stress, Flagging the Therapy and Flagging Depression.

Enda Murphy is a well-known Irish cognitive behaviour therapist. He is project director of the CBT training programme with the ICGP, and assistant director of training with the HSE North East GP Training scheme. He works in developing and delivering CBT training programmes to various statutory and voluntary organisations. He is a regular contributor to the medical press in Ireland and China on the subject of mental health, and speaks at medical conferences around the world. He operates CBT clinics in both Ireland and China that work with GPs and mental health services in the treatment of depression and anxiety. He is the author of the bestselling book Five Steps to Happiness.

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