Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain by Daniel J. Siegel - Paperback - Parenting & Teen Psychology - New

Details Condition: New Format: Paperback ISBN: 9781922247452 Publisher: Scribe UK Age Range: Parents & Adults (Teen-focused subject matter) Overview Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain is a compassionate, science-led guide from renowned neuropsychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel. Rather than treating adolescence as a phase to survive, Siegel reframes the teenage years as a period of extraordinary opportunity, creativity, and growth. Drawing on cutting-edge interpersonal neurobiology, this paperback edition helps parents, teachers, and carers understand the changing adolescent brain and use that understanding to build stronger, calmer, more connected relationships with the young people in their lives. About the Book Between the ages of roughly twelve and twenty-four, the brain undergoes dramatic reorganisation that shapes mood, identity, risk-taking, and relationships. In Brainstorm, Daniel J. Siegel draws on decades of clinical experience and current brain research to explain why these years can feel so intense — for teenagers and the adults around them. Rather than pathologising typical adolescent behaviour, Siegel shows how the same neurological shifts that fuel impulsivity and emotional volatility also drive the creativity, social engagement, and novelty-seeking that make adolescence such a formative and valuable stage of life. He offers a way to move from conflict to connection, translating neuroscience into everyday strategies. Chapters explore emotional regulation, the drive for independence, peer relationships, and the search for identity and meaning, always tying the science back to practical guidance that can be used at home, in the classroom, or in a counselling setting. Whether you are living with a strong-willed teenager, supporting students, or simply want to better understand the young adults in your life, this paperback is a clear, warm, and genuinely useful roadmap through one of the most misunderstood stages of human development. Explains