July/August 2019

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Editor's Note

Rich Simon

For a long while, most of us thought we had the signs and signals of teenage girls down: the growing obsession with friends, the pain of peer rejection, the rebellions both large and small. All that’s still going on, but in a tech-based world that can feel far more uncertain.

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The World of Adolescent Girls

Helping Them Find Their North Star

Mary Pipher

On the 25th anniversary of her landmark book Reviving Ophelia, the author reflects on what she’s learned over the years about working with teenage girls and helping them resist a culture that keeps encouraging them to be the object of another’s gaze. Read More
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An Interview with Mary Pipher

Rich Simon

How both therapy and the challenges adolescents face have changed in the digital age. Read More
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Mondays With My Girls

Lessons in Being Real

Shadeen Francis

A group of preteen girls in a long-term shelter teach a budding therapist some unexpected lessons about the true meaning of resilience and the power of relationship. Read More
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Craving Device-Free Attention

Technoconflicts in Families Today

Martha Straus

Therapists are used to adolescent girls grumbling about their hovering, overinvolved parents. But these days, many have a new complaint—technoference in the home. Even as they’re tethered to their own screens, teens are wanting more, not less, of their digitally distracted parents’ attention. Read More

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Working with Difficult Men

Where’s the Leverage for Change?

Terry Real

The conflict between an older, more traditional view of masculinity and a newer, more progressive one is the underlying issue in many marriages today. Helping these couples means violating many of the fundamental principles in the traditional therapy playbook. Read More

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