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Helping Your Daughter Thrive – Dr. Lisa Damour "Untangles" Adolescent Stages
Please join us Thursday, October 12, 8:15 – 9:30 am in Clements Lecture Hall for the HPA Kickoff Speaker Event. Dr. Damour is a 2017 Hartman Fellow and author of The New York Times bestselling book, Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions of Adulthood. She will address parents on the topic of adolescent developmental stages and provide insight into building and maintaining healthy relationships with our daughters. Click here to register for this event. Read More for additional information about Dr. Lisa Damour.
Lisa Damour, Ph.D. directs Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls, writes a monthly Adolescence column for the New York Times’ Well Family online report, and is a regular contributor at CBS News. She serves as a Senior Advisor to the Schubert Center for Child Studies at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Damour maintains a private psychotherapy practice and also consults and speaks internationally. She is the author of numerous academic papers, chapters, and books related to education and child development. Her New York Times best-selling book, Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, was published in February 2016. Untangled has been hailed by Dr. Michael Thompson as “the best description of the female adolescent journey that I have ever read” and by Dr. Madeline Levine as“mandatory reading.
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A Denver native, Dr. Damour graduated with honors from Yale University 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 in Child Development and Social Policy and from the University of Michigan’s Power Foundation. Dr. Damour draws on years of clinical experience and the latest research to provide sound, practical guidance to girls as well as to their parents, teachers, and advocates.
More information and articles can be found on Dr. Damour’s website: www.drlisadamour.com.
The Hockaday School
Within the private school community, The Hockaday School is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls from grades PK–12 located in Dallas, Texas. Students realize their limitless potential through challenging academic curricula, arts, athletics, and extracurricular programs so that they are inspired to lead lives of purpose and impact.
The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.
The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.