Emptying the Nest: Launching Your Young Adult Toward Success and Self-Reliance

ISBN-13: 9780230620582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str.

Brad Sachs

Opis

In today's rapidly changing world and challenging economy, young adults increasingly find themselves at a crossroads between financial and emotional dependence and autonomy. Drawing on Dr. Sachs' extensive clinical experience and his illuminating discussion of the latest psychological research, Emptying the Nest will support parents in their efforts to cultivate their young adult's success and self-reliance while simultaneously maintaining healthy family relationships. Parents will: - understand the family dynamics that either impede or nurture self-sufficiency;
- foster a higher degree of academic, professional, and fiscal responsibility;
- effectively encourage young adults to establish realistic goals and create a meaningful vision for their future;
- learn how to gradually let go, so that young adults discover how to resolve their own problems.

Spis treści

Introduction: Pulling Anchor, Setting Sail
No Place Like Home, No Place to Go: The Modern Landscape of Young Adulthood
The Rites and Wrongs of Passage: Developmental Tasks for the Young Adult
Failure to Launch: Family Dynamics and the Emerging Adult
Start Your Engines: Fostering Autonomy and Motivation
The Rites and Wrongs of Passage: Developmental Tasks for Parents
Getting Beyond 'Whatever': Growth-Promoting Communication During the Young Adult Years
Preparation for Separation: Putting it all into Action
Enduring Intimacy: Your Marriage at the Launching Phase
Letting Go, Moving On: The Midlife Launch
Conclusion: Dancing to the Music of Time: Thoughts and Reflections

O autorze

DR. BRAD SACHS is a Psychologist and Author of the nationally recognized parenting books, The Good Enough Child and The Good Enough Teen . His creative and innovative approach to psychotherapeutic treatment has been showcased on over three hundred radio and television shows, including 20/20 and The Diane Rehm Show. He regularly contributes to Redbook, Parenting, Parents, Child, and American Baby, and lectures and leads workshops nationally and internationally. He is on the faculty of the Cape Cod Institute and lives with his wife in Columbia, MD, where they have raised their three young adult children.