For Anyone Who Shares a Home with an Adolescent! As a Parent - Your Job Is ....

Sept. 27, 2010 - PRLog -- The Adolescent Owner's Manual is a refreshing look at the puzzling world faced by today's teens and their parents who are trying to guide them. A highly readable guide from psychiatrist, mystery writer and film director, David Laing Dawson

This book is about averting the tragedies of adolescence and enjoying the comedies and of both parents and their children surviving it with no more than a rueful grin and a few stories to tell their friends, other parents, and their grandchildren.

This book is the support and encouragement you need in order to do the right thing and to achieve a smooth transition into adulthood.

Dawson has the rare ability to make complex and potentially dull reading entertaining and instructive. In addition to being a psychiatrist, he is also a successful mystery writer and film director. Those skills enhance this book and provide some down to earth help to parents.

Trust your intuition and, with this book, learn how to deal with everything from the day to day problems to determining when there is something seriously wrong that requires expert help. There is down to earth common sense advice on issues like shoplifting, preoccupation with the morbid, cutting and self mutilation, sex and pregnancy, gender identification and some of the best and controversial advice you will find on anorexia and bulimia.

Dawson is a former professor of psychiatry, psychiatrist in chief of a large psychiatric hospital, the author of mysteries that have been compared to Elmore Leonard, Robin Cook, like a Seinfeld episode and translated into seven languages. He is also a screen writer and director and the author of Schizophrenia in Focus and Relationship Management of the Borderline Patient.

The Adolescent Owner's Manual, ISBN 9780986652202, $15.95 available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other book stores. For more information, visit http://www.bridgeross.com/ownersmanual.html

A video trailer for the book can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCrKf1lV2o



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Bridgeross Communications is an independent publisher with titles such as My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery From Mental Illness by Sandra Yuen MacKay - "remarkably compelling" - Library Journal and After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity, by Susan Inman and recommended by NAMI