Finally, a life-coach who leads teens and young adults to success! Dr. Boskovitz teaches the necessary life and social skills that lead teens and young adults to empowerment and resilience in the face of the obstacles they encounter.
The guide and the companion workbook mentor teens and young adults:
- Fosters teens' growth in both independence and responsibility!
- teaches skills to control behavior and manage emotions.
- Provides essential call-to-action guides, real-life examples, and additional recommended reading for teens and educators.
- Teaches self-awareness and self-knowledge with the Identity and Behavior Scales
- Raises self-confidence and self-esteem to help reach goals
- Helps build character and empowerment.
- Imparts self-help skills to improve mental health
- Creates a sound identity and autonomy in finding a path forward
- Instills reflection and decision-making skills, using the Decision Trees
- Develops self-acceptance and courage to dream
- Trains teens and young adults in goal-setting and perseverance as they build step by step paths to their goals
With this thorough coaching, teens and young adults
- Uncover and grow their inner strengths and power to pursue their dreams
- Learn to seek help that they can trust to foster them on the journey
- Are able to avoid the pitfalls and distractions that can derail their journey
- Remain empowered and resilient when facing large obstacles or problems
- Become proud of their abilities and optimistic about their future
- Turn away from drugs and alcohol, depressive thoughts, and acting out
Doctor Boskovitz has more than 25 years' experience working with teens and young adults in many varied settings, ranging from inner city schools to outlying, underserved areas. Dr. Boskovitz's approach is based on the popular, innovative work of Francoise Dolto, MD, a noted French child psychiatrist, who advocated strongly for children to be considered as free agents from their earliest childhood.
Parents' and educators' responsibility is to genuinely respect the child's person as they provide a clear structure with rules and expectations for the child to develop safely and optimally. This promotes freedom, confidence, and responsibility from a young age.
Dr. Boskovitz offers this authentic approach to her readers. She gives them the tools to cultivate their inner strength and independance, and assume responsibility for themselves with confidence.
Dr. Boskovitz obtained her Doctorate in Educational Psychology/Counseling Psychology from the University of Houston.
About the Author: Madeleine Boskovitz, PhD, is a psychologist with years of experience with youngsters and teenagers in public schools, in inner cities and in outlying, underserved rural areas, and teen shelters. In addition, Dr. Boskovitz has much experience teaching junior college, undergraduate, and graduate students who needed much support in managing their life decisions. In each of these settings, she has found younger and older teens yearning to understand themselves, to feel empowered to manage their behavior, and eager to follow their dreams. In 1979, Dr. Boskovitz discovered the pioneering work of French Psychiatrist, Francoise Dolto, who promoted a respectful and authentic acknowledgement of the dignity and separateness of the "other," at any age. Dr. Dolto's work eventually inspired Madeleine to engage in formal studies in psychology. Her extensive doctoral research focused on adolescent development and difficult behaviors. Her dissertation, titled: Demographic, Experiential, and Developmental Correlates of Adolescent Self-Destructive Behavior, led her to demonstrate how much the inner and outer environment impacts identity development and behavior. She obtained her PhD in Counseling Psychology in 2000. In her Houston, Texas, practice, Dr. Boskovitz practices from a psychodynamic understanding of development. She promotes a healthy separation between parents and their children, of any age, so that two exciting developments can take place. The first is that children can begin to assume their own shape and begin to take responsibility for their behavior and their consequences. At the same time, parents who keep a healthy distance from their children feel more adequate as parents and can then offer their children the right amount of presence and support for their choices and endeavors as these grow throughout their life. From her developmental approach, Dr. Boskovitz assists teens and young adults in recognizing their strengths and using them to promote changes in those areas that are more difficult for her clients. Most of the time, these changes revolve around Identity development and lifestyle choices. She helps young people learn the skills illustrated in her book: improve emotional balance and manage behavior, learn self-soothing skills, recognize their own needs and assert themselves appropriately in social situations. Finally, she helps her clients become empowered to be who they are and want to become.
