Brainstorm : the power and purpose of the teenage brain

Siegel, Daniel J. 1957- (author.).

Summary: "Between the ages of twelve and twenty-four, the brain changes in important and, at times, challenging ways. In Brainstorm, Dr. Daniel Siegel busts a number of commonly held myths about adolescence—for example, that it is merely a stage of “immaturity” filled with often “crazy” behavior. According to Siegel, during adolescence we learn vital skills, such as how to leave home and enter the larger world, connect deeply with others, and safely experiment and take risks.Drawing on important new research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, Siegel explores exciting ways in which understanding how the brain functions can improve the lives of adolescents, making their relationships more fulfilling and less lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide."--Provided by the publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 0399168834
ISBN: 9780399168833
Physical Description: xviii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Publisher: New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. III. Your attachments. Safe harbor and launching pad -- The ways we attach : The secure model ; The avoidant model ; The ambivalent model ; The disorganized model -- Reactive attachment -- Earning secure attachment and integrating the brain ; Reflecting on your attachments and making sense of your life -- Questions for reflection on attachment -- Our attachment narratives and the two sides of the brain -- Avoidance, emotional distance, and the left side of the brain -- Ambivalence, emotional confusion, and the right side of the brain -- Disorganized attachment and a dissociating brain -- Creating a safe harbor and launching pad for adolescents -- Mindsight tools #3: Time-between and reflective conversation -- Making sense of how our models shape our present -- Mindsight practices : A. Reflecting on how your attachment models shape your reflective conversations ; Reflection, integration, and the origins of empathy -- B. Reflective conversations ; The PART we play in creating ourselves in relationships -- C. Repairing ruptures -- pt. IV. Staying present through changes and challenges. Honoring the person an adolescent is becoming -- Leaving home -- Puberty, sexuality, and identity -- Hooking up -- Romance and first love -- First be present -- Changes and challenges to integration -- Acceptance, letting go of expectations, and sexual orientation -- Drug use or abuse? -- Return home: reflection, realignment, and repairing ruptures -- Mindsight tools #4: The mindsight simple seven -- Mindsight practices : A. Time-in -- B. Sleep time -- C. Focus time -- D. Downtime -- E. Playtime -- F. Physical time -- G. Connecting time --Conclusion: MWe and the integration of identity.