This episode looks closely at today’s adolescent girls. Guests, Dr. Mary Pipher and Sara Pipher Gilliam draw upon their new updated version of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescents Girls, to compare the teenage girls of the 1990’s with the middle though high school girls of today. Using Focus Groups of girls and mothers, interviews with teachers and guidance counselors, the latest research, as well as feedback from today’s girls on the original book, they consider what challenges, needs, perils and joys have changed and what have remained the same. They will answer -How do develop
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