Untangled ─ Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

Stop worrying and start getting answers! Finally, there’s a book that helps parents understand why their teenage daughter’s sometimes confusing and dramatic behavior is actually predictable and normal. InUntangled, Dr. Lisa Damour—a university instructor, researcher, clinician, popular speaker, and the director of Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls (in Ohio)—introduces the seven developmental transitions that turn girls into grown-ups and helps parents form happier, healthier relationships with their daughters.

Lisa Damour, Ph.D., graduated with honors from Yale University, then received her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Michigan. She has worked for the Yale Child Study Center and is the recipient of training fellowships from Yale’s Edward Zigler Center for Child Development and Social Policy. She is the author of numerous academic papers related to education and child development. Dr. Damour directs Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls, maintains a private psychotherapy practice, consults and speaks internationally, and is a faculty associate of the Schubert Center for Child Studies and a clinical instructor at Case Western Reserve University. She and her husband have two daughters and live in Shaker Heights, Ohio.