On The Fast Track

About the Book

In On The Fast Track-teens getting too much too soon in these rapidly changing and uncertain times and what parents can do to stay connected, Kimberly Quinn Smith addresses the issues that teenagers are presently dealing with in relation to their world from middle school through the college years. She offers strategies to help parents understand their teens, and in a sense to grow with them. Kimberly Quinn Smith interviews current experts in the fields of gender issues, social psychology, and clinical psychology, as well as teens who are struggling with alcoholism and drug addiction, depression, social disorders, and homosexuality. She discusses the latest trend of tattoos and body piercing, as well as the theory on the new moral shades of gray or moral relativity. She discusses adolescent anger, conflict resolution, and the latest sexual epidemic sweeping our country, the friends with benefits relationship. In On The Fast Track, there is a large focus on attachment issues and the apparent emotional disconnection that appears to be so prevalent in our society today.

Also by Kimberly Quinn Smith, MA-Striving for the Purple Heart-mothers in the universal pursuit of honor

About the Author

Kimberly Quinn Smith has achieved a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Michael?s College, majoring in both Biology and Psychology, a reflection of her interest in both the mind and body and their intricate connection. She then attended graduate school at Boston College and achieved a Masters of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology. Kimberly has worked within the field of psychology for over seventeen years as a family and child therapist, a parenting skills educator, and a facilitator of Teen-Esteem workshops. Kimberly and her husband Tom have been married for fifteen years. They live in a small, rural, northern Vermont town with their five children and three dogs. They enjoy skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, swimming, and summer barbecues in the backyard.