Teen Spirit: The Ultimate Family Manual

Abstract:
This book takes a spiritual approach to helping parents communicate with their adolescents about sexuality. In particular, it addresses teenage pregnancy, sexual abuse, and sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV) by looking at the underlying high-risk sexual behavior. The author proposes a new framework for thinking about sexuality based on the connection between the mind, body, and soul. Within this framework, he offers parents strategies to help them create for their children a foundation of core sexual beliefs, values, and virtues. Because the book focuses on spirituality rather than religion, it should be helpful to families from many religious backgrounds (including those with no particular religious background). The book provides factual information on a variety of subjects, such as puberty, pregnancy, contraception, homosexuality, and abortion. Fifty-five strategies--including "accept your responsibility as the primary sexuality and spirituality teacher for your children" and "learn the secrets of strong families"--are discussed. Some of the diagrams and charts are easier to follow than others, and the book contains an inordinate number of typographical errors (which will be corrected in the next printing); still, this is an important book for its positive view of sexuality within a spiritual context. It offers a number of insights that will be useful to parents and those who work with parents.

Author(s): BRAITHWAITE, Sylvester, M.D.


Date Published: 9/5/1997

Pages: 260

Comments:
The price of the book is $24.95 + $3 shipping and handling. The book is located on the shelf in the Research Coordinator's office.

Location Code: 11137