Watchung Psychological Associates

Associates in Psychological Care

 
Available online and at all bookstores
Available online and at all bookstores

“Best Book of the Year”, Instructor Magazine, June 2008

Generation Text helps parents and kids deal with the influence technology, media, and the pre-teen and teen culture has on their kids’ attitudes, values, and behavior.
It is virtually a parenting handbook for the unique challenges of the Millennium Parent.
Finalist-Books For A Better Life Award
             Awards Ceremony: February 23, 2009

“Generation Text: Raising Well-Adjusted Kids In An Age Of Instant Everything,” available August 2008 (www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.bordersstores.com). The challenges of raising children in today’s culture of easy technological access to the world and an age of excess are addressed. As a highly prescriptive parent handbook Generation Text helps you and your kids navigate through the world filled with Internet hazards, media messages, and peer pressure.

 

 

 

Table of Contents
1.  The World at Their Feet-and Fingertips:
     Unfazed and Unimpressed
2.  Who Am I and How Did I Get Here?
     Identity formation
3.  I Want It Now!                               
     Immediate Gratification
4.  Work Ethic:
     Play Now, Work Later
5.  Interpersonal Relationships:
     Friends, Family, and Strangers
6.  Starting Early:
     The Generation Text Child
7.  The Access and Excess Teen
8.  Walking the Tightrope:
     Balancing Wants and Needs
9.  How to Make Technology Work For You
10. Integrating the Old and New:
     Regaining Control    
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Dr. Zito

“Relationships Can Be An Invisible Player In Sports”, Courrier News/News Tribune, March 31, 2009.

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20090330/HEALTH/903300353/1040/HEALTH

The Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology (due out in late 2009)-  author of Chapter 19- Family Intervention in Sport