Letting Go A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years

Name: Letting Go A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years
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ISBN: 9780061665738

ISBN-10: 0061665738

ISBN-13: 9780061665738

Edition: 5th

Authors: Karen Levin Coburn, Madge Lawrence Treeger, Karen L. Coburn

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For more than a decade Letting Go has provided hundreds of thousands of parents with valuable insights, information, comfort, and guidance throughout the emotional and social changes of their children's college years-from the senior year in high school through college graduation. Based on real-life experience and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, this indispensable book has been updated and revised, offering even more compassionate, practical, and up-to-the-minute information. When should parents encourage independence? When should they intervene? What issues of identity and intimacy await students? What are normal feelings of disorientation and loneliness for…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Edition: 5th
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.726

Karen Coburn is the senior consultant in residence and longtime assistant vice chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis. A licensed psychologist and coauthor of the bestselling book Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years, she was a founding member of the St. Louis Women's Counseling Center.

Madge Lawrence Treeger is a psychotherapist and a longtime member of the Washington University Counseling Service.



Preface to the Fifth Edition



The College Experience



Letting Go



Some Things Never Change: The Search for Identity, Independence, and Intimacy



Some Things Do Change: College Life Today



A Parents' Guide: From Start to Finish



Great Expectations



Ready, Set, Go: The Departure



Orientation and Disorientation



The Freshman Year: Academic Life and the College Scene



In and Out Of Your Life



Sophomore Slump and the Years Beyond



The End is the Beginning


Resources for Parents and Students


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index