Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Princeton, will host a presentation on “Girls, Stress and Anxiety: What We Know, What We Can Do.”
Psychologist Dr. Lisa Damour, a foremost expert on child development and author of the New York Times best-seller “Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood,” will present the talk at 7 p.m., Feb. 8 in the school’s Cor Unum Theater, 1200 Stuart Road.
The presentation at the all-girls school is free and open to the public. Pre-registered attendees, however, will be entered into a drawing for a signed copy of “Untangled.”
Dr. Damour, who is also a monthly New York Times online columnist and regular contributor to CBS News, directs Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and maintains a private psychotherapy practice, consults and speaks internationally.
In her book, published by Random House, Dr. Damour draws on years of clinical experience and the latest research to provide guidance to girls as well as to their parents, teachers and advocates.
“As experts in educating girls, we are pleased to bring Dr. Lisa Damour back to the Princeton community,” said Dr. Patty L. Fagin, head of school at Stuart. “Dr. Damour’s research-based expertise helps to strengthen the parent-school partnership as we work to raise healthy and confident young women.”
A Denver native, Dr. Damour graduated with honors from Yale University, New Haven, Conn., and then worked for the Yale Child Study Center before earning her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Michigan. She has held fellowships from Yale’s Edward Zigler Center for Child Development and Social Policy and from the University of Michigan’s Power Foundation.
About her book, The Washington Post reviewed, “Damour takes the confusing, infuriating and sometimes even frightening behavior of teenage girls and breaks it down into what’s normal [almost all of it] and what to worry about [not as much as you think]. Damour builds on and references solid research in psychology, but the heart of ‘Untangled’ are the real-life examples and anecdotes from Damour’s decades of experience in counseling adolescent girls and their parents. Without preachiness or jargon, Damour illustrates how to talk to our girls, how to set limits and how to respect and foster our daughters’ growing independence.”
To reserve a seat for the presentation, visit www.stuartschool.org/lisadamour.