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Lisa Damour, Ph. D.
Known for: Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
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Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
In this insightful and compassionate guide, psychologist Lisa Damour explains the seven developmental transitions that teenage girls experience on their way to adulthood. Drawing on years of clinical experience and research, she helps parents understand what is normal, what is not, and how to support their daughters through challenges such as friendship changes, emotional ups and downs, and growing independence.
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Part 1 – Joining a New Tribe
The first major transition is perhaps the one parents feel most acutely: the moment when girls begin to shift their emotional center from family to friends. This change is not rejection — it is evolution. For years, your daughter’s identity was rooted primarily in her relationship with you, her pare...
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Part 2 – Harnessing Emotions
Adolescent girls feel everything. Happiness, despair, excitement, anxiety — all magnified, all intense. Parents often ask why their daughters seem to overreact or spiral emotionally; my answer is always the same: it’s not overreaction, it’s growth. During adolescence, the emotional system is undergo...
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About Lisa Damour, Ph.D.
Lisa Damour, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, author, and speaker specializing in child and adolescent development. She writes for major publications, contributes to The New York Times, and serves as a regular commentator on adolescent psychology. Damour is also the author of several bestselling b...
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Lisa Damour, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, author, and speaker specializing in child and adolescent development. She writes for major publications, contributes to The New York Times, and serves as a regular commentator on adolescent psychology. Damour is also the author of several bestselling b...
Lisa Damour, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, author, and speaker specializing in child and adolescent development. She writes for major publications, contributes to The New York Times, and serves as a regular commentator on adolescent psychology. Damour is also the author of several bestselling books on parenting and teenage development.
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