A clinical psychologist offers an accessible guide to the "New Teen" and how parents can adjust to raising them in this emotionally challenging world.Kids are growing up with nearly unlimited access to social media and the Internet, and unprecedented academic, social, and familial stressors. Starting as early as eight years old, children are exposed to information, thought, and emotion that they are developmentally unprepared to process. As a result, saving the typ...

In Provocations of Virtue, John Duffy explores the indispensable role of writing teachers and scholars in counteracting the polarized, venomous “post-truth” character of contemporary public argument. Teachers of writing are uniquely positioned to address the crisis of public discourse because their work in the writing classroom is tied to the teaching of ethical language practices that are known to moral philosophers as “the virtues”—truthfulness, accountability, open-mindedness, ...

Parenting Teen Boys with Love and Confidence"John is the real deal… He knows what kids are dealing with, what their struggles are, where their strengths lie, what they know, and what they need."— Giuliana Rancic, journalist, television personality, and infotainer#1 Best Seller in Popular Adolescent PsychologyDr. John Duffy; bestselling author of Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety, clinical...

All of us yearn for a lifelong love relationship, whether it is a marriage or a friendship-or both. But few of us know the secrets to cultivating and maintaining one. Secrets for a Lifelong Love is based on John V. Duffy's experience of lifelong love in his marriage of almost 60 years. In these pages, he unlocks the secrets he has learned and shares the tips, virtues, values, statements, and problem-solving techniques that he has found beneficial*.*Both young couples plann...

How to help our sons grow into happy, successful, capable adults. Recent decades have shown that boys are simply not thriving the way they should be. In Rescuing Our Sons, Dr. Duffy has developed eight practical parenting steps to improve your understanding of your teenager, equip him with life skills to improve his present and his future, and bring your family together.Become the effective, confident parent your teen needs. Raising respon...

Adam is grief stricken after watching his older brother Tommy slowly wither and die. Drinking too much, he has quit playing music and driven away his longtime girlfriend. His best friend and former bandmate, Mark, invites Adam on a work trip to South Dakota's Badlands, hoping to remind Adam that it's OK to experience joy.On the road, Mark takes drastic action to reignite Adam's passions, but Adam grows concerned watching as Mark uses drugs and spends money with childish abandon. Wh...

After Plato redefines the relationships of rhetoric for scholars, teachers, and students of rhetoric and writing in the twenty-first century. Featuring essays by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field, the book explores the diversity of ethical perspectives animating contemporary writing studies—including feminist, postmodern, transnational, non-Western, and virtue ethics—and examines the place of ethics in writing classrooms, writing centers, writing across the curri...

Experimental economics involves the use of controlled, experimental methods both in the laboratory and the field to better comprehend how individuals and groups make economic decisions and to more clearly identify causal relationships. This book takes the reader to the frontier of research in this exciting and rapidly growing field. Unlike other texts, this book discusses both the methodology of experimental economics and some of the main application areas.The material is organized...

Riley could have been a professional skateboarder if he hadn't hit his head and woken from a coma with crippling vertigo. Trapped in Phoenix and hoping to pursue his passion from behind the lens, he accidentally lands in the orbit of a narcissistic model where he is captured by the glitz of parties, drugs, and sex. His new friends are equally without direction, and together they drift from night to night in an alcohol fueled hunt for meaning. When chance offers him a shot at real love - an...

This volume has been updated and revised to reflect all applicable diagnostic categories of the DSM-IV, as well as recent advances in psychopharmacology. Over 600 challenging questions covering material most likely to be found on the board examination are included, reflecting current theory and practice in child and adolescent psychiatry, psychopathology, psychopharmacology, and other selected topics. Software includes randomized question sequence, immediate viewing of score results, insta...

Since 1969, Ethan Allen has been the subject of three biographical studies, all of which indulge in sustaining and revitalizing the image of Allen as a physically imposing Vermont yeoman, a defender of the rights of Americans, an eloquent military hero, and a master of many guises, from rough frontiersman to gentleman philosopher. Seeking the authentic Ethan Allen, the authors of this volume ask: How did that Ethan Allen secure his place in popular culture? As they observe, this spectacula...

At this moment, schools are doing everything they can to win the Race to the Top. They are allocating their funding to test preparation, riffing beloved teachers, and transferring students who “drag down” their grade average on the state report card. This book describes the current state of the education system in the United States. Readers will be on the front lines of the protests in Madison, in the inner city public-turned-charter schools, and in the shoes of the teachers dealing with e...