
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index The audience will be mothers of teenagers who seek stories similar to their own The 200 essays are presented here, chronicling the mothers' experiences with daughters who were anorexic, bulemic, depressed, runaways, and so on, grouped according to themes such as interventions, institutions, and coping with crises.

Dellasega (Penn State College of Medicine), who leads therapeutic writing workshops, solicited autobiographical essays from mothers of troubled teenage daughters.

Weaves the author's own story of raising teenage daughters with the voices of dozens of other mothers of girls.
