num_pages: 288
description: A science-based guide to developmental changes within teenage brains explains how they affect behavior, offering advice to parents and educators on how to better understand, communicate, and stay connected with young people while managing their erratic behavior and helping them to resist destructive impulses. 30,000 first printing.
language: English
title: WHY Do They Act That Way?: A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen
titlecomplete: WHY Do They Act That Way?: A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen
genres: Family, Psychology, Nonfiction, Education, Human Development, Health, Counselling, Personal Development, Parenting, Teaching
ratings_count: 666
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Minnesota Book Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Free Press