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To Change A Mind: Parenting to Promote Maturity in Teenagers
Author(s): John A. McKinnon (Author)
- Publisher: Lantern Books
- Publication Date: 25 Aug. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1590562348
- ISBN-13: 9781590562345
Book Description
In this companion to his first book, An Unchanged Mind, John A. McKinnon provides invaluable advice to all parents of teenagers and young adults. Using case studies gathered from his years helping parents with troubled adolescents, Dr. McKinnon explores the ways that adolescent development can be derailed in todays complex culture and how parents can prevent this from happening in the first place.
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About the Author
John A. McKinnon, M.D., was educated at Harvard, Cambridge University, Case Western Reserve University, Yale, and Norwich University. He taught at the University of California, San Francisco, and directed psychiatry hospital programs in Texas and Montana. Disgusted with the mediocrity of “managed” care, he left traditional medical centers to co-found Montana Academy, a therapeutic school for troubled teenagers on a remote ranch near Glacier Park. His co-founder and wife, Rosemary, is also a therapist, and they have three daughters.
