Why Smart Teens Hurt

Platform and Credential Highlights

• Retired family therapist (California licensed marriage and family therapist) with extensive experience working with children and their parents
• Active creativity coach (and founder of the profession of creativity coaching) with creative and performing clients worldwide
• Ongoing Psychology Today blog “Rethinking Mental Health” with 3,000,000 views
• Teacher on platforms like DailyOM, where tens of thousands of students have taken Dr. Maisel’s classes
• High school teaching experience at an upscale San Francisco private high school for smart teens
• Author of the Conari title Why Smart People Hurt, with more than 80 5-star global ratings
• Forthcoming featured teacher on babysparks.com, one of the world’s biggest sites for parents (which is rebranding itself to service parents of kids 0 – 18 years of age)
• Three weekly blogs on the Good Men Project website, including one blog that will be dedicated to Why Smart Teens Hurt
• All Good Men Project posts automatically reposted on Medium
• Worldwide personal contacts with influencers, for instance with Arianna Huffington and Thrive Global
• Creator, with Heather Juergensen, of the downloadable program The Mindful Parent’s Playbook, to be featured on babysparks.com
• Former editor for parent resources at, and ongoing connections with, madinamerica.com, the world’s largest critical psychology website
• Established expert to a professional audience on the issues of childhood, including as author of Helping Parents of Diagnosed, Distressed, and Different Children: A Guide for Professionals (Routledge)
• Editor-in-chief of a forthcoming critical psychology series, with ongoing connections to the world’s most influential children’s mental health experts
• Worldwide media contacts leading to, for example, a full-page Sunday feature in Shanghai Daily, Shanghai’s largest English-language newspaper
• Invited workshop, webinar and keynote presenter to organizations like The International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry (keynote) and The American Mental Health Counselors Association (keynote)

Get the Inside Scoop on Teenage Psychology

Our teens are our future so it’s only right that we invest in understanding them! This guide book provides solutions to improve teenage issues and interpersonal communication. 

Helpful guide to understanding teenage psychology. In Why Smart Teens Hurt, Dr. Eric Maisel, best-selling author of Why Smart People Hurt, and one of the world’s leading experts on the issues of childhood, shares a unique exploration of the teen problems adolescents face. Maisel guides us on what it’s like to inhabit the racing, often troubled realm of teenage psychology, and he provides powerful strategies to help parents and smart teens alike.

Healthy ways to address teenage issues. Teen parenting books usually look at teenagers as objects. But Why Smart Teens Hurt empowers parents to be empathetic towards their teens while also understanding the struggles of adolescence and teenage behavior. Parents will gain a new level of understanding and a new appreciation of their smart teen’s reality.

Inside, you’ll find:

• A comprehensive breakdown of teenage psychology
• Strategies and solutions to help your smart teen reach their full potential
• A uniquely crafted reading experience for both parents and teens

If you liked books such as Smart but Scattered Teens, Focus and Thrive, or Scattered to Focused, you’ll love Why Smart Teens Hurt.