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Oct 1, 2002 · Surviving Ophelia is a book that provides the community that mothers of troubled teenage girls need more than anything. Powerful and heartfelt, this book captures both the pain and the strength of mothers who are living with the daily challenge of raising teenage daughters today.
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Sep 1, 2001 · Surviving Ophelia is evidence that each teenager's situation is unparalleled, and Dellasega does not offer any finite solutions to the tumultuous teen years. Instead, the author and mothers provide parenting ideas, from the practical to the radical, and measure their own success and failure.
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- Cheryl Dellasega, Cheryl Dellasega Ph.D.
Sep 1, 2001 · 155 ratings28 reviews. Raising a teenage girl can be frightening and overwhelming for the most important female figure in her life: her mother. From handling the often delicate situations surrounding academic performance, athletics, friendships, sexual activity, and drug and alcohol experimentation to instilling (or restoring) a healthy body ...
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- Hardcover
- Cheryl Dellasega
Surviving Ophelia is a book that provides the community that mothers of troubled teenage girls need more than anything. Powerful and heartfelt, this book captures both the pain and the strength of mothers who are living with the daily challenge of raising teenage daughters today. Read An Excerpt.
- Cheryl Dellasega
- Paperback
To provide the community that these women so desperately crave-and all that comes with it: the guidance, the solace, the inspiration, and the hope -Cheryl Dellasega has written Surviving...
- Cheryl Dellasega
- Da Capo Press, 2001
- 0738205087, 9780738205083
Surviving Ophelia is a book that provides the community that mothers of troubled teenage girls need more than anything. Powerful and heartfelt, this book captures both the pain and the strength of mothers who are living with the daily challenge of raising teenage daughters today.
The 200 essays are presented here, chronicling the mothers' experiences with daughters who were anorexic, bulemic, depressed, runaways, and so on, grouped according to themes such as interventions, institutions, and coping with crises. The audience will be mothers of teenagers who seek stories similar to their own.
