American Psychological Association

Point of View,
Public Broadcasting System

Booklet

We can find refreshing new information for you through state-of-the-art research

Staying Connected: A Guide to Raising an Adolescent Daughter

Writers:
Shirley Sirota Rosenberg, Katherine J. Conradt, and Celeste McCall

Editors:
SSR staff

Design:
Fletcher Associates

Tasks:
Consultation, research, design, writing, copyediting, proofreading, Fresh Eye, production

Our job

Attend focus groups to learn what parents say they need to know about their teenage girls, followed up with extensive research conducted in telephone interviews, on the Web, and in the most current literature. Quotations from parents lead off each section, superimposed on photos from the files of photojournalists, thereby supplementing the fresh, contemporary tone of the narrative.

The brochure was prepared in conjunction with the POV-PBS documentary, Five Girls. SSR also wrote most of the text for the accompanying Web site.

To see the full text:
http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/girls

To read about the PBS documentary:
http://www.pbs.org/pov/5girls/