{"product_id":"first-love-guiding-teens-through-relationships-and-heartbreak-9781538161685","title":"First Love: Guiding Teens Through Relationships and Heartbreak","description":"\u003cb\u003eA critical resource for parents to help their teens through the perplexing world of love and heartbreak. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday's young people are beginning their love lives in a time of rapidly changing ideas and ideals about identity, commitment, sexuality, and consent. For parents, the new realities of teenage relationships can be both mystifying and daunting.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFirst Love: Guiding Teens through Relationships and Heartbreak\u003c\/i\u003e, Lisa A. Phillips chronicles the challenges today's adolescents face as they navigate crushes, dating, and breakups--and the challenges adults face as they strive to provide guidance and support. Phillips sheds light on how the relationships teens have today are different from their parents' generation, including their reliance on technology and social media, the rise of young people identifying as LGBTQ+, high rates of depression and anxiety, and consent consciousness. She provides concrete strategies and insights from experts and teens themselves on ways parents and other adults can help young people cope with the timeless issues of love and heartbreak. \u003cbr\u003eTold from the perspective of a professor, mother, and award-winning journalist, \u003ci\u003eFirst Love \u003c\/i\u003eis a critical resource for parents, educators, mental health professionals, and others who want to understand the new realities of teen relationships--and help teens become caring, self-aware, and thriving young adults.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa A. Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eUnrequited: The Thinking Woman's Guide to Romantic Obsession \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePublic Radio: Behind the Voices. \u003c\/i\u003eShe's written about relationships, mental health, and teens for the\u003ci\u003e New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eWashington Post, Psychology Today, Cosmopolitan, Salon, \u003c\/i\u003e and other outlets. She teaches journalism and the popular \"Love and Heartbreak\" seminar at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Phillips began her journalism career in public radio, working for radio stations in the Midwest and Northeast for more than a decade. She lives in Woodstock, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186738331922,"sku":"9781538161685","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f70192fe-1853-447a-a824-52600ad1e77c.jpg?v=1744631222","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/first-love-guiding-teens-through-relationships-and-heartbreak-9781538161685","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}