tt9_990_414. Zykov M.B. Teens are crazy. – Abstract: Bradley, Michael J., Ed.D. Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind. – Gig Harbor, Washington: Harbor Press, 2003. – i-xx + 332 p. ISBN 0-936197-44-7. [Зыков М.Б. Подростки – сумасшедшие. – Реферат: Брэдли М.Дж. Да, ваш подросток – сумасшедший: Нельзя любить своего ребёнка безрассудно! Английский язык. – США, 2003. – i-xx + 332 с. Совместный проект с Cно-Айл Риджинал Лайбрэри, штат Вашингтон, США. Штрих-код: 3_9067_03430514_8]...1
\ Foreword by Jay N. Giedd, M.D.:
This remarkable book incorporates recent research on teen brain development with practical, sound advise for parents. The brain forms by greatly overproducing the number of brain cells and connections, and then all of these brain cells and connections fight it out for survival. It is the first stage. Then a second wave of overproduction and elimination of brain cells occurred throughout childhood and the teen years.
These dynamic changes in teen brain development coincide with time of enormous creativity, passion, courage, and experimentation. They also coincide with a time of inconsistencies, missteps, and sometimes baffling behavior as teens struggle to find their unique place in the world, become self-sufficient, and test physical, cognitive, and emotional limits....2
While the biology of the teen brain probably hasn’t changed much in the last few thousand years, the environment has changed tremendously. Teens today are faced with a dizzying array of choices, more potent and addictive drugs, and, through media and the Internet, far greater exposure to sexual material. Stone Age impulses now have Computer Age temptations (p. xi).
Introduction: This book is a survival guide for parents facing the tests of raising a new millennium adolescent. The neurological fact is that adolescents are temporarily brain-damaged. The implications of this are enormous, and those implications are what this three-part book is about (p. xv). A good parent actually can create problems for his (her) at-risk kid. In this new millennium rules don’t work anymore. Today parents need skills to deal with the insanity that rages both child’s brain and outside, in his world....3
The brain development is not over by adolescence. You can rewire that head. This second-chance rewiring can either be miraculous or disastrous. Parents are still the most influential force in adolescent’s life. Thus, for your child to change, your relationship must change. For this to happen, parent must change. And this is only the first step (p. xvi) (p. xvii – xix).
Part One. Your Child: The new millennium adolescent (p. 1).
Chapter 1. The Adolescent Brain (p. 3)....4
Parenting an adolescent in today’s world is much the same as flying a jet aircraft or performing brain surgery. Contemporary parenting is a complex set of learned skills, many of which seem counterintuitive to us. Parenting of adolescent requires training. Better say, the retraining (p. 4). Technically speaking, adolescents are crazy. Till now we had no clue that their brains were changing. It’s well known that 95 percent of the brain develops in a child by about age five (p. 5). But the most advanced parts of the brain don’t complete their development until adolescence is pretty much over....5
Starting in 1991, Dr. Jay Gield, chief of brain imaging at the Child Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), started taking pictures of kids’ brains over a nine-year span. He and his colleagues at UCLA and McGill University in Canada used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study exactly how a child’s brain grows from ages 3 to 18. They studied almost 1,000 “normal” kids at intervals ranging from two weeks to four years. What they found completely rewrote our understanding of the adolescent brain.
Substantial growth occurs in a brain structure called the corpus callsum. It is a set of nerves that connects all the parts of the brain that must work together to function efficiently, as in making good decisions. This set of “wires” is critical to things like intelligence, consciousness, and self-awareness....6
The prefrontal cortex of the brain (p. 6) goes through a wild growth spurt that coincides with the onset of adolescence. This part of the brain does the bulk of its maturation between the ages of 12 and 20. The prefrontal cortex is where the most sophisticated of our abilities reside. Emotional control? Impulse restraint, and rational decision-making are all gifts to us from our prefrontal cortex, gifts your kid hasn’t yet received. Dr. Karl Pribram, director of the Center for Brain Research and Informational Sciences at Radford University in Virginia, described it best when he said, “The prefrontal cortex is the seat of civilization.”...7
Both the prefrontal cortex and the brain’s limbic system work to process tasks. The limbic system is a kind of primal emotion center that deals with emotions like rage and fear. Once the limbic system is aroused, the prefrontal cortex can process or moderate the reactions or impulses of the limbic system. Using this two-step process, the adults all recognize fear in the faces shown to them in the pictures. But many teens were unable to process the pictures correctly. It was found that the pictures aroused the teens’ limbic systems, but their prefrontal cortexes were not working. In other words, the teens were moved by the pictures, but were unable to figure out what they meant. (Results received by Dr. Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, a neuropsychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts) (p. 7) (p. 8)....8
Here are some common adolescent “mental disorders”:
-The Shepherdus Germanus Seizure Syndrome (p. 9): adolescents can not explain their bizarre actions.
-Aphasia Whenus Iwannus: the sudden loss of speech (p. 10).
-Maturationnus Erraticus: adolescents demonstrate two completely different sets of rules, expectations, needs, and fears.
-Moodus Elevatoris Irrationnus: (p. 11) out-of-the-blue mood swings/ It looks uniquely crazy.
All of these temporary “mental disorders” are normal experiences common to adolescence. These are often terrible times for the kid (p. 12) (p. 13, when he’s in a crazy phase. The most important is learning how to verbally approach adolescents today (p. 14). Being truly mentally ill is perhaps the worst experience we can endure. Adolescence, at times, is a kind of mental illness. They are fighting for their souls (p. 15). We, adults, were all the same way. The fact is that they cannot handle “something” (“it”) and they know this (p. 16) (p. 17)....9
Chapter 2. Your Adolescent’s World: sex, drugs, and rock’n roll like you never saw.
We’ve created a world dripping with sex, drugs, and violence and plunked our temporarily insane children in the middle of it. Important are the next affirmations:
-Drugs are a short-term antidote for the pain (p. 18).
-Alcohol is the drug (p. 19). Eighteen million Americans currently suffer health problems related to drinking. In 1999 over half of seventh through twelfth graders said they drink. 20% noted they drink weekly, with 8% admitting to binge drinking (five or more shots in a raw) more than once in the preceding month. Annually, 45,000 of American teen children get their bodies broken in booze-related driving accidents. And every year we bury 10,000 of our sons and daughters who drink very well and drive very badly Last year we lost far more of our children to alcohol poisoning and drunk driving (p. 20) than were stolen from us by heroin, cocain, Ecstasy, accidents, and illness combined – so alcohol is a dangerous drug! (p. 21)
-The new-millennium drugs are stronger and more powerful than ever (p. 22) (p/ 23).
-Sex: Too Much + Too Soon = Too Late (p. 24-25). …. \...10
\ Foreword by Jay N. Giedd, M.D.:
This remarkable book incorporates recent research on teen brain development with practical, sound advise for parents. The brain forms by greatly overproducing the number of brain cells and connections, and then all of these brain cells and connections fight it out for survival. It is the first stage. Then a second wave of overproduction and elimination of brain cells occurred throughout childhood and the teen years.
These dynamic changes in teen brain development coincide with time of enormous creativity, passion, courage, and experimentation. They also coincide with a time of inconsistencies, missteps, and sometimes baffling behavior as teens struggle to find their unique place in the world, become self-sufficient, and test physical, cognitive, and emotional limits....2
While the biology of the teen brain probably hasn’t changed much in the last few thousand years, the environment has changed tremendously. Teens today are faced with a dizzying array of choices, more potent and addictive drugs, and, through media and the Internet, far greater exposure to sexual material. Stone Age impulses now have Computer Age temptations (p. xi).
Introduction: This book is a survival guide for parents facing the tests of raising a new millennium adolescent. The neurological fact is that adolescents are temporarily brain-damaged. The implications of this are enormous, and those implications are what this three-part book is about (p. xv). A good parent actually can create problems for his (her) at-risk kid. In this new millennium rules don’t work anymore. Today parents need skills to deal with the insanity that rages both child’s brain and outside, in his world....3
The brain development is not over by adolescence. You can rewire that head. This second-chance rewiring can either be miraculous or disastrous. Parents are still the most influential force in adolescent’s life. Thus, for your child to change, your relationship must change. For this to happen, parent must change. And this is only the first step (p. xvi) (p. xvii – xix).
Part One. Your Child: The new millennium adolescent (p. 1).
Chapter 1. The Adolescent Brain (p. 3)....4
Parenting an adolescent in today’s world is much the same as flying a jet aircraft or performing brain surgery. Contemporary parenting is a complex set of learned skills, many of which seem counterintuitive to us. Parenting of adolescent requires training. Better say, the retraining (p. 4). Technically speaking, adolescents are crazy. Till now we had no clue that their brains were changing. It’s well known that 95 percent of the brain develops in a child by about age five (p. 5). But the most advanced parts of the brain don’t complete their development until adolescence is pretty much over....5
Starting in 1991, Dr. Jay Gield, chief of brain imaging at the Child Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), started taking pictures of kids’ brains over a nine-year span. He and his colleagues at UCLA and McGill University in Canada used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study exactly how a child’s brain grows from ages 3 to 18. They studied almost 1,000 “normal” kids at intervals ranging from two weeks to four years. What they found completely rewrote our understanding of the adolescent brain.
Substantial growth occurs in a brain structure called the corpus callsum. It is a set of nerves that connects all the parts of the brain that must work together to function efficiently, as in making good decisions. This set of “wires” is critical to things like intelligence, consciousness, and self-awareness....6
The prefrontal cortex of the brain (p. 6) goes through a wild growth spurt that coincides with the onset of adolescence. This part of the brain does the bulk of its maturation between the ages of 12 and 20. The prefrontal cortex is where the most sophisticated of our abilities reside. Emotional control? Impulse restraint, and rational decision-making are all gifts to us from our prefrontal cortex, gifts your kid hasn’t yet received. Dr. Karl Pribram, director of the Center for Brain Research and Informational Sciences at Radford University in Virginia, described it best when he said, “The prefrontal cortex is the seat of civilization.”...7
Both the prefrontal cortex and the brain’s limbic system work to process tasks. The limbic system is a kind of primal emotion center that deals with emotions like rage and fear. Once the limbic system is aroused, the prefrontal cortex can process or moderate the reactions or impulses of the limbic system. Using this two-step process, the adults all recognize fear in the faces shown to them in the pictures. But many teens were unable to process the pictures correctly. It was found that the pictures aroused the teens’ limbic systems, but their prefrontal cortexes were not working. In other words, the teens were moved by the pictures, but were unable to figure out what they meant. (Results received by Dr. Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, a neuropsychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts) (p. 7) (p. 8)....8
Here are some common adolescent “mental disorders”:
-The Shepherdus Germanus Seizure Syndrome (p. 9): adolescents can not explain their bizarre actions.
-Aphasia Whenus Iwannus: the sudden loss of speech (p. 10).
-Maturationnus Erraticus: adolescents demonstrate two completely different sets of rules, expectations, needs, and fears.
-Moodus Elevatoris Irrationnus: (p. 11) out-of-the-blue mood swings/ It looks uniquely crazy.
All of these temporary “mental disorders” are normal experiences common to adolescence. These are often terrible times for the kid (p. 12) (p. 13, when he’s in a crazy phase. The most important is learning how to verbally approach adolescents today (p. 14). Being truly mentally ill is perhaps the worst experience we can endure. Adolescence, at times, is a kind of mental illness. They are fighting for their souls (p. 15). We, adults, were all the same way. The fact is that they cannot handle “something” (“it”) and they know this (p. 16) (p. 17)....9
Chapter 2. Your Adolescent’s World: sex, drugs, and rock’n roll like you never saw.
We’ve created a world dripping with sex, drugs, and violence and plunked our temporarily insane children in the middle of it. Important are the next affirmations:
-Drugs are a short-term antidote for the pain (p. 18).
-Alcohol is the drug (p. 19). Eighteen million Americans currently suffer health problems related to drinking. In 1999 over half of seventh through twelfth graders said they drink. 20% noted they drink weekly, with 8% admitting to binge drinking (five or more shots in a raw) more than once in the preceding month. Annually, 45,000 of American teen children get their bodies broken in booze-related driving accidents. And every year we bury 10,000 of our sons and daughters who drink very well and drive very badly Last year we lost far more of our children to alcohol poisoning and drunk driving (p. 20) than were stolen from us by heroin, cocain, Ecstasy, accidents, and illness combined – so alcohol is a dangerous drug! (p. 21)
-The new-millennium drugs are stronger and more powerful than ever (p. 22) (p/ 23).
-Sex: Too Much + Too Soon = Too Late (p. 24-25). …. \...10
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