Girl Wars
Cheryl Dellasega, Ph.D.
Halfway through the writing of my first book, I realized relationships were one of the key issues girls struggled with during adolescence. At the same time, my work with young women had opened my eyes to the concept of relational aggression (RA) which is sometimes called female bullying. To examine how RA impacts on the lives of tweens and teens, I obtained stories from across the country, and then, with my coauthor Charisse Nixon, wrote a guide that provides concrete strategies for helping girls cope.
The Starving Family
The Starving Family
Cheryl Dellasega, Ph.D.
What started as a simple project at work became a book when I realized that parents had so much to say and share about the impact of eating disorders on the entire family system. Both mothers and fathers talked to me at length about what it is like to caregive for a son or daughter with anorexia, bulimia, or EDNOS. A companion workbook provides many tools that can help parents assess, monitor, and support their ill child. All my proceeds from this book benefit the Penn State Eating Disorder Unit
Mean Girls Grown Up
Mean Girls Grown Up: Adult Women Who Are Still Queen Bees, Middle Bees, and Afraid-to-Bees
Cheryl Dellasega, Ph.D.
Whenever I spoke about the phenomenon of relational aggression, it seemed one person in the audience would ask: What happens to these girls when they grow up? It made me curious, too, but when I looked for any books or studies on the topic, there weren’t any. Once more, the words of real women who have lived through RA are at the core of this book, along with helpful steps to take if you are an adult target, aggressor, or in-betweener.
Breaking the Cycle
Breaking the Cycle: How to Turn Conflict into Collaboration When You and Your Patients Disagree
George F. Blackall, Psy.D., Steven Simms, and Michael J. Green, M.D., M.S.
Doctors want to help their patients. Patients want their doctors to help. But when conflicts arise and lead to an impasse-over issues as simple as prescribing antibiotics for a cold or as complicated as end-of-life care-physicians can be left feeling frustrated and helpless. As their relationship deteriorates, both doctor and patient feel misunderstood and cut-off. Inspired by the authors’ experience with a twelve-year-old girl who struggled to take life-saving medication and based on principals and proven techniques from the field of family therapy, the authors present a unique approach to the problem of doctor-patient conflict.
This practical guide focuses on how changes in a physician’s thinking can improve challenging interactions. Breaking the Cycle features:
• A wealth of real-life experiences and case studies that show how impasses arise and how best to respond.
• A systematic approach that helps readers overcome impasses by building relationships with their patients, not withdrawing from them.
• The knowledge, insights, and experience of an internist, health psychologist, and family therapist.
Breaking the Cycle explains how physicians can understand, approach, and resolve doctor-patient conflict in a way that breaks down barriers and builds stronger, more gratifying relationships.
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