An Intimate Understanding of America's Teenagers Shaking Hands with Aliens

Subjects:

• Psychology » Psychology (General)
• Psychology » Developmental Psychology

Reviews:

• "Gevirtzman uses entertaining and enlightening student interviews, surveys, conversations, classroom discussions, and recreated scenarios from his four-decade teaching career to assist readers in better understanding contemporary adolescents."
  —VOYA 1/1/2009
• "Gevirtzman understands adolescents. In this sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always informative work, the author (a high school English teacher who for years has been involved with adolescents in various capacities) introduces readers to the wonderful individuals he has come to know...A must read, this is a how-to manual for understanding adolescents and inviting them into adult life...Essential. All readers, all levels."
  —CHOICE 2/1/2009
• "In his very effective storytelling style, [Gevitzman] relates many moving, thoughtful, and sometimes very funny and heartwarming stories about teens. . . . This title is filled with many useful and helpful suggestions for parents, teachers, others who work with teens, and even teens themselves. . . . This is an easy reading text that will be beneficial for parents of teens or for those who work closely with teens."
  —Catholic Library World June 2009
• "Bruce Gevirtzman shares the results of his years spent talking with teenagers about topics from life and lust to depression and death. Revealing honest, poignant words shared in conversations, classroom talk, interviews, surveys, and journals, Gevirtzman takes us inside the minds of today's youths, and also contrasts them with teenagers of decades past. Topics include teen thinking and secrets on issues from sex, drinking, and drugs, to peer pressure, self-imposed standards, and beliefs about what is important, and painful, in life."
  —Adolescence 6/26/2009

Table of Contents:

• Preface
  Introduction
  Chapter 1: Im, Like, All
  Chapter 2: The Rebel Paradox
  Chapter 3: Mirror, Mirror
  Chapter 4: Lily Munster Or Whatevers Cool
  Chapter 5: The Anti-Midas Touch
  Chapter 6: Dumb Stuff
  Chapter 7: Athletes, Arrogance, and Angst
  Chapter 8: The Slime Who Hurt Our Kids
  Chapter 9: When Party Became a Verb
  Chapter 10: Snitchin Aint Bitchin
  Chapter 11: Hard Bodied, Soft Headed, and Stone Dead
  Chapter 12: Sex, Oral Sex, and What Is Is
  Chapter 13: Devouring Junk
  Chapter 14: They Bombed Hiroshima, Didnt They?
  Chapter 15: Good and Plenty
  Chapter 16: You Vil Go to Havid!
  Chapter 17: You Mean, When You Die, Youre Dead?
  Chapter 18: Its a Matter of Philosophy: Remedies x 10
  Chapter 19: Cant! Wont! Not!
  Chapter 20: When All Is Said and Done
  Notes
  Bibliography
  End Notes

PDF Catalogs:
Praeger Public Library Spring 2009.pdf	Psychology Catalog 2008.pdf