Groundbreaking New Book Presents Realistic Approach to Transitioning Adolescents to Healthy Adulthood
Durham, NC (PRWEB) April 17, 2008 -- Keeping Adolescence Healthy: Exploring the Issues Facing Today's Kids and Communities by Aaron White is a timely inspection of problems adolescents are facing today and the steps needed to resolve teens' widespread dilemmas.
With school shootings, violent video games, bullying, binge drinking, ADHD and unhealthy body images on the forefront of recent news events, author Aaron White hopes to capture what the current world is like for adolescents and how it can be made better. Using science-based research, White seeks to provide explanations for, and solutions to, the problems plaguing today's youth. White, an internationally renowned expert on adolescent health, is also co-creator of AlcoholEdu, an effective online alcohol education course completed by more than 1 million students since its inception in 2001.
In an easy-to-understand format, the book equips parents, teachers, school counselors, pediatricians, or anyone who deals with adolescents on a regular basis with the knowledge necessary to ensure that the transition to adolescence goes smoothly and that today's kids go on to live healthy, productive adult lives
White's Keeping Adolescence Healthy: Exploring the Issues Facing Today's Kids and Communities should be required reading for anyone who wishes to see adolescents develop into healthy adulthood.
For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author at aaron.white@duke.edu. Keeping Adolescence Healthy: Exploring the Issues Facing Today's Kids and Communities is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.
About the Author
Aaron White received his Ph.D. from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and has been an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry, division of medical psychology at Duke University Medical Center since 2001. He has appeared in several educational videos, as well as in news outlets discussing the importance of promoting healthy brain development by creating healthy environments. He speaks internationally about these issues and currently resides in Durham, N.C.
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