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The Approximate Parent: The Sexual Culture of American Teens (Chapter 6)
This is a portion of the larger work, The Approximate Discovering the Strategies That Work with Your Teenager. This edition contains the book’s introduction, the entirety of Chapter 6, endnotes for the chapter, index, permissions, and the “about the author” sections.
Chapter 6 (“The Sexual Culture of American Teens”) explores another basic premise of the Approximate that understanding what it means for teens to develop identity by creating and maintaining friendships, acquaintances, and partners (sexual or otherwise) requires an understanding of digital media. The entertainment industries—primarily television, film, and the music business—were all highly influential in adolescent identity development in 1993. But after 1994, the content and influence of these industries changed in dramatic ways. As we’ll see, the advent of the 24/7/365 always-connected, always-plugged-into-digital-media teenager is here to stay for the foreseeable future. And that is changing just about everything, including relationships and sex.
Chapter 6 (“The Sexual Culture of American Teens”) explores another basic premise of the Approximate that understanding what it means for teens to develop identity by creating and maintaining friendships, acquaintances, and partners (sexual or otherwise) requires an understanding of digital media. The entertainment industries—primarily television, film, and the music business—were all highly influential in adolescent identity development in 1993. But after 1994, the content and influence of these industries changed in dramatic ways. As we’ll see, the advent of the 24/7/365 always-connected, always-plugged-into-digital-media teenager is here to stay for the foreseeable future. And that is changing just about everything, including relationships and sex.
90 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 15, 2012
About the author
Michael Y. Simon
12 books3 followersMichael Y. Simon, LMFT is the author of
The Approximate Parent: Discovering the Strategies That Work with Your Teenager. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Oakland, California. Michael is a sought-after local and national speaker on the subjects of teens and families and has worked with thousands of children, youth and families since 1990. He served for many years as a high school counselor, ran or developed programs that directly served children from birth to 18 and taught psychology, philosophy and religious studies at several American universities.
Michael is also the founder of Practical Help for Parents —a support organization for parents, educators and mental health professionals who work daily in support of adolescents. Most importantly, he’s the proud parent of a sweet, kind, 26 year-old man who, as a teenager, couldn’t be bribed to write a paragraph, and as an adult, would like nothing more than to write for a living. How’s that for neural plasticity?
The Approximate Parent: Discovering the Strategies That Work with Your Teenager. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Oakland, California. Michael is a sought-after local and national speaker on the subjects of teens and families and has worked with thousands of children, youth and families since 1990. He served for many years as a high school counselor, ran or developed programs that directly served children from birth to 18 and taught psychology, philosophy and religious studies at several American universities.
Michael is also the founder of Practical Help for Parents —a support organization for parents, educators and mental health professionals who work daily in support of adolescents. Most importantly, he’s the proud parent of a sweet, kind, 26 year-old man who, as a teenager, couldn’t be bribed to write a paragraph, and as an adult, would like nothing more than to write for a living. How’s that for neural plasticity?
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