GPS is pleased to welcome back to campus Dr. Lisa Damour September 12-13, to discuss her newest book, Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls.

In Under Pressure, Lisa Damour, Ph.D., The New York Times best-selling author of Untangled, returns with an urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college. However, not all stress is bad. “Anything that asks us to work at the edge of our current capacity is stressful, but that’s how we learn and grow,” writes Damour.

Damour explores stress in all forms and details the many facets of girls’ lives where tension can take hold and offers critical coping strategies to help parents reduce their daughters’ anxiety and address the toxic pressures to which our culture subjects girls and young women.

Dr. Lisa Damour is a psychologist, author, teacher, speaker, and consultant. She writes the monthly Adolescence column for The New York Times and is a regular contributor at CBS News. She serves as a senior advisor to the Schubert Center for Child Studies at Case Western Reserve University and as the Executive Director of Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls.

Damour is the author of two The New York Times best-selling books: Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood and Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls. She draws on years of clinical experience and the latest research to provide sound, practical guidance to girls as well as to their parents, teachers, and advocates.

More information about her visit and presentations to the public to follow. Please plan to join us for a riveting presentation of fresh insights, advice, and conversation with Damour. All are welcome, so please feel free to spread the word and encourage others to attend!