Swimming upstream : parenting girls for resilience in a toxic culture / / Laura H. Choate
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| Autore: |
Choate Laura Hensley
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| Titolo: |
Swimming upstream : parenting girls for resilience in a toxic culture / / Laura H. Choate
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 649/.133 |
| Soggetto topico: | Girls |
| Daughters | |
| Parenting | |
| Resilience (Personality trait) | |
| Girls - Conduct of life | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Swimming Upstream; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Taking a Tour of Girl World; 1 Appearance, Attention, Accomplishments: Toxic Cultural Expectations for Today's Girls; 2 Girls in Transition: Who Am I?; 3 Vulnerable Girls: Common Mental Health Problems; Part Two: Parenting for Resilience; 4 Resilience Dimension One: Parenting from Your Inner Core; 5 Resilience Dimension Two: Developing a Positive Body Image; 6 Resilience Dimension Three: Cultivating Healthy Relationships; 7 Resilience Dimension Four: Keeping Success in Perspective |
| 8 Resilience Dimension Five: Charting My Life Course Conclusions; Recommended Resources; Indexing for SUS | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A guide to help parents teach their daughters to resist negative cultural messages. Never before have adolescent girls faced so many confusing and contradictory expectations. From a young age, popular culture teaches girls that their worth is based on their appearance, their ability to gain attention, and an ever-increasing accrual of accomplishments. With such unattainable standards, it is no wonder that many girls experience stress, self-doubt, and even mental health problems. Girls struggle to develop an authentic sense of self, even as they attempt to meet a set of impossible cultural |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Swimming upstream |
| ISBN: | 0-19-939115-7 |
| 0-19-939114-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461585003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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