Ph.D. Uncommon Sense for Parents of Teenagers , Berkeley, CA, Celestial Arts, 1995. Click to order. This one should also be available at your local public library. We found the book basically sound. You must remember, however, that they are not adults.
Adolescence contains aspects of both adult and child worlds, but is wholly neither.
In addition, there needs to be room for real input from adolescents. Click to order. Yale University Press, 1999. So far, this all sounds like good news. Rosie really does want to be a physician, that is, feels a calling to help her people by becoming a doctor, but has no supportive network, a difficult family life, and no accurate sense of what is really required to become a physician.