{"product_id":"how-we-grow-up-understanding-adolescence-9780063471917","title":"How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence","description":"Building off his award-winning New York Times series on the contemporary teen mental-health crisis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter delivers a groundbreaking investigation into adolescence, the pivotal life stage undergoing profound-and often confounding-transformation.The transition from childhood to adulthood is a natural, evolution-honed cycle that now faces radical change and challenge. The adolescent brain, sculpted for this transition over eons of evolution, confronts a modern world that creates so much social pressure as to regularly exceed the capacities of the evolving mind. The problem comes as a bombardment of screen-based information pelts the brain just as adolescence is undergoing a second key change: puberty is hitting earlier. The result is a neurological mismatch between an ultra-potent environment and a still-maturing brain that can lead to anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. It is a crisis that is part of modern life but can only be truly grasped through a broad, grounded lens of the biology of adolescence itself. Through this lens, Richtel shows us how adolescents can understand themselves, and parents and educators can better help.For decades, this transition to adulthood has been defined by hormonal shifts that trigger the onset of puberty. But Richtel takes us where science now understands so much of the action is: the brain. A growing body of research that looks for the first time into budding adult neurobiology explains with untold clarity the emergence of the “social brain,” a craving for peer connection, and how the behaviors that follow pave the way for economic and social survival. This period necessarily involves testing-as the adolescent brain is programmed from birth to take risks and explore themselves and their environment-so that they may be able to thrive as they leave the insulated care of childhood. Richtel, diving deeply into new research and gripping personal stories, offers accessible, scientifically grounded answers to the most pressing questions about generational change. What explains adolescent behaviors, risk-taking, reward-seeking, and the ongoing mental health crisis How does adolescence shape the future of the species What is the nature of adolescence itself\u003ch2\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h2\u003eMatt Richtel has been a reporter at the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e since 2000. He won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series that exposed the pervasive risks of distracted driving and its root causes, prompting widespread reform. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Deadly Wandering\u003c\/i\u003e, which the\u003ci\u003e New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003edeclared, \"deserves a spot next to \u003ci\u003eFast Food Nation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/i\u003e in America's high school curriculum\"; it was named a \"best book of the year\" by the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e. He has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, PBS Newshour, and other major media outlets. He lives in San Francisco, California.","brand":"Matt Richtel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44273792516157,"sku":"9780063471917","price":29.74,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/x1000_550de7f8-3a16-44ed-a49e-fde1443a608b.jpg?v=1793670939","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/how-we-grow-up-understanding-adolescence-9780063471917","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}