Adolescence Is Not A Disease

HOW TO PREPARE YOUR TEEN TO

SUCCEED IN A COMPLEX WORLD

There are so many influences on teens and young adults today, the flood is impossible

to control. Often, teens’ questions about themselves and their futures are too much for

parents to handle alone, or worse, go unnoticed and unanswered. The consequence of

ignoring these can lead to decades of unnecessary struggle. Adolescence Is Not a Disease

offers innovative, real-life, real-world solutions to problems both parents and teens face.

Internationally recognized mentor, Jeffrey Leiken, explains the three distinct stages of

the deep and complex inner journey each teen goes through in becoming a self-sufficient

adult, and how you can help your teens answer their most urgent and challenging

questions and move toward fulfilling adulthoods.

Leiken shares themes, struggles, and solutions almost all teens and their parents face,

highlighting the differences between coming-of-age in the twenty-first century, while

honoring the universal constants that we all went through. Leiken poignantly discourages

parents from blindly deferring to the pervasive, contemporary, one-dimensional, feardriven

“expert advice” that too often pathologizes adolescence, misunderstands it, and

creates the problems it then tries (and mostly fails) to fix. Rather than try to become an

expert in parenting, Leiken will help you to instead become an expert in raising your own.