What's the Catch?: How to Avoid Getting Hooked and Manipulated - Softcover

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The third book to come out in the All About Me series, What s the Catch? How to Avoid Getting Hooked and Manipulated, explores the ways in which our thinking, feelings, and behavior are influenced by those around us. Sometimes this kind of influence is helpful, but at other times it ends up shortchanging us. Readers will learn to distinguish between the two kinds of situations, so that they can more easily tell when they re really being helped, and when they re merely being manipulated, brainwashed, or tricked. Written in a clear and accessible style by physician David Sobel, What s the Catch? is illustrated by Jeff Jackson with an engaging and multiethnic cast of teen characters, who act out and embody the various ways in which we re influenced by others. Readers will learn to become more aware of the forces nudging and pushing them, as well as how to protect themselves from unwanted and unhelpful influence. By coming to understand their own reaction patterns, they ll be able to avoid getting hooked. In What s the Catch?, young people will discover all that scientists and researchers know, and also explore questions yet to be answered. Illustrative quotes from real-life teens, as well as simple activities the reader can do to relate to the concepts presented, make the book truly come alive for young people. Also included are suggested activities for teachers to use in the classroom. What s the Catch? can be used to supplement a high school psychology course, or as a stand-alone unit in grades 8 through 12.Edited by renowned psychologist and author Robert Ornstein, Ph.D., and Denise Nessel, Ph.D., of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, the All About Me series provides an all-inclusive program designed to meet the American Psychological Association's National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula, the California Middle School and High School Health Standards, the California State High School Life Science Standards, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Health, and the National Board Professional Teaching Standards: Adolescence and Young Adulthood Science Standards. Focused on the mind, each text provides a set of lessons and various activities that teach sophisticated brain research in an accessible and interesting way. The first title in the series, Me and My Memory: Why We Forget Some Things and Remember Others, was published in the spring of 2009. Me and My Feelings: What Emotions Are and How to Manage Them is being published concurrently with What s the Catch? Forthcoming titles include Perception: What We See and Don t See will be published in the Fall of 2010.

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