Teenagers, Don't Read This Book!

About the Book

A self-help book with an attitude is just what teenagers might read. The book gives teenagers ideas about how to deal effectively with parents, teachers, coaches, and peers as they cope with the stresses of teenage life. Areas covered are emotional needs, anger, goal setting, behavioral and perspective change, problem solving, attitude, decision making, responsibility, integrity, and success. It is a book that respects the teenager while empowering him/her to take control of his/her life journey.

About the Author

Psychologist, wife, parent, teacher, community volunteer, school counselor, adjunct professor, mentor, life coach, and author. All of these titles can be claimed by Rita Esterly, author of Teenagers: Don’t Read This Book. Rita Esterly earned her Ph.D. in Educational and Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri- Columbia in 1991. Dr. Esterly has earned four degrees from the University of Missouri including a Bachelor of Science in Education, a Master of Education in Counseling, a Educational Specialist with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Educational and Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Group Procedures and Child Development. Dr. Esterly is licensed as a psychologist. Her career has included being a teacher in junior high and high school, an assistant director of financial aids and placement at a vocational technical college, an elementary school counselor in both the public and parochial schools, a junior high and high school counselor in the public schools, and a parenting educator. Since she obtained her doctorate degree, she has been an outpatient therapist at a hospital, a university adjunct professor, and a psychologist in private practice. In her spare time, Dr. Esterly has been active in children’s community theatre, as a sponsor of a high school Christian youth group, as a mentor to Alpha Phi collegiate women in the area of scholarship, and as a Rotarian. A mother of two successful teenagers herself, Dr. Esterly puts her philosophy into action in her private practice as she works with teenagers to build social skills, solve problems, set goals, and negotiate to help them meet their needs. She encourages them to do all of these things out of a sense of their own integrity as human beings. Dr. Esterly wrote Teenagers: Don’t Read This Book in response to the needs of hundreds of teenagers she has counseled in her private practice. Through the book, she hopes to help teenagers deal effectively with their parents, teachers, coaches, and peers as they cope with the stresses of teenage life.