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Almost Grown: Launching Your Child from High School to College
Contributor(s): Pasick, Patricia (Author)

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 ISBN: 0393317102     ISBN-13: 9780393317107
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $20.85  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: March 1998
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Annotation: Offering intelligent counsel in this time of tumult, as a child makes the transition from high school to college, "Almost Grown" tackles the key questions parents have about this time, explores the impact on family stability, and examines the challenges and opportunities which nontraditional families face.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Adolescence
- Family & Relationships | Education
- Education | Higher
Dewey: 378.198
LCCN: 97-37065
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.56" W x 8.23" L (0.54 lbs) 264 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
Features: Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
Almost Grown is a guide for parents to the final years of high school and first years of college, offering intelligent counsel not only in practical issues such as developing a college search plan or handling questions of money, sex, and substance abuse, but also in the psychological issues that arise during this family transition. Writing as both psychologist and parent, Patricia Pasick tackles the key question of how mothers and fathers can foster adolescents' growth and autonomy while maintaining family connections and stability. She also explores the unexpected: the impact of the changing family on younger siblings, the benefits and frustrations of college students' returning home, the challenges and opportunities that nontraditional families face, and more.

Pasick delves into another critical yet underplayed aspect of the college transition: how parents' lives change. Almost Grown guides readers through this major step in adult development and new start to adult partnerships.

Almost Grown contains advice from high school and college admissions counselors across the country and, at the heart of the book, stories of personal experience from parents and adolescents who are making, or have made, the transition.

Contributor Bio(s): Pasick, Patricia: - Patricia Pasick, M.Ed., Ph.D., is a family therapist and clinical psychologist in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and teaches at the Fielding Institute. She is married and has two children, ages 18 and 22.
 
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