Book review: The Owner's manual for driving your adolescent brain (2013)

 

Book Review:  The Owner's Manual for Driving  Your Adolescent Brain by Deak et al (2013)

Funky. Fun. Facinating. I loved it.
It's got a great balance of neuroscience and modern language appealing to the younger audience.

My psychological perspective:

For adolescents

It's great to find resources you know are beneficial for adolescent's to read, that they won't mind reading. This book is written in a non-threatening way and provides really helpful information, tips for young people in the context of their rapid development. 

How to protect their developing brain. How it changes throughout adolescence.

My Christian Perspective:

It's very cool from my perspective to investigate creation. When we look at the human body, it's a wonder how anyone can think we became by accident. The intricate ways in which our bodies operate, change and adapt- I cannot fathom how this is not by devine design.

This book is a great way for Christian parents to begin to talk to their young people about these bodily changes, and how this effects their decision making and choices throughout adolescence.

My overall rating: 

Excellent
This is a very useful resource or a decent use of time. 

Nicely illustrated. Perfect holiday reading to keep young people occupied and learning. But I don't think the audience is purely young people, as it provides a quick refresher for those of us who left neuroscience back at college.

My advice, buy the book, (read it first) leave it by the kitchen table and see if your young person picks it up.

I was provided with a review copy of this ebook. It retails for physical copy $11.48 and ebook under $5 from Amazon and the publisher's website.