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The third book in Hoopoe's ""All About Me"" series, What's the Catch? looks at how people (from our parents to our peers) and media (from TV commercials to the Internet) try to influence us. In many situations, we're influenced to think, feel or behave in ways that we might not otherwise pursue. Sometimes such influence is helpful, but at other times we end up being shortchanged. What's the Catch? explores situations and presents examples that will help readers become more aware of the forces nudging and pushing them. It includes many fun and entertaining activities they can do over and over again, to help them distinguish between situations when they're being helped and situations when they're manipulated, brainwashed or tricked. And they'll learn when and how to protect themselves from unwanted influence. Author David Sobel, M.D., is a practicing physician who presents ideas in ways that are easy to read and absorb. The book is illustrated by artist Jeff Jackson with an engaging cast of teen characters and images to help highlight these ideas. This new edition of What's the Catch? has been revised to incorporate the latest research findings and meet the American Psychological Association's National Standards for Psychology at the high-school level, the College Board AP Psychology standards and the National Board Standards for Science/Adolescence and Young Adulthood. The ""All About Me"" series presents books to help teens and preteens understand themselves and how they, as human beings, ""work."" This is fundamental information, but we often forget to teach it in school - for example, what psychologists know about how we see, think, and feel; how these abilities work, change, grow or get stuck; and how reliable they are as we try to make sense of ourselves, our friends, our relatives and the world around us. There is good, solid information readily available and scientifically validated - and it's all about you ... and me.

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""... a guide for younger readers on how to resist the influences and pressures that lie all around us. Author David Sobel encourages children to understand the reasoning behind their actions and to remember to act for yourself, and avoid being a puppet. With a strong message for readers, What's the Catch? is a solid and highly recommended read. - Midwest Book Review (U.S.) ""How are teens supposed to make good health and life decisions, now and in the future, if they don't understand themselves and how influential people and social media can manipulate them? What's the Catch? ... is strong preventive medicine - equipping teens with the insights, tools and skills to avoid questionable influences, pressures and stress."" - Kenneth R. Pelletier, Ph.D., M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and author of Change Your Genes, Change Your Life ""Mark Twain once said that it is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. Sobel successfully takes on the even harder task of helping teens learn to separate facts from non-facts and how modern media makes this difficult. By bringing them into the conversation with a light touch, he supports their understanding the science of persuasion and how to make use of information, rather than be used by it."" - James Fadiman, Ph.D., cofounder, Sofia University ""Our teens swim daily in a rushing river of media and What's The Catch? provides essential, accessible tools for kids, and their parents and teachers, for understanding and navigating this cascade of information. As a long-time Media Literacy and SEL teacher, I was impressed with the ways in which Dr. Sobel invites students into a reflective conversation using science and specific, relatable examples. This intelligent and engaging approach of the All About Me book series supports students in developing their own internal compass for understanding their own reactions as they set a thoughtful course through their media saturated world."" - Renee Fadiman, M.F.A., Media Literacy and SEL Educator ""What's The Catch? gives readers specific exercises to help them be better prepared for recognizing temptations that can easily derail their long-term goals. My students loved learning about themselves."" - Susan Josephs, literacy teacher, the TEAK Fellowship ""What's the Catch? is an essential book for teens and tweens that do not want to be manipulated by advertising and authority. Chock full of useful and interactive activities ... What's the Catch? is a great book. ... I highly recommend (it) to middle school and high school-aged teens and tweens ... All middle school, high school, and public libraries should own a copy."" - Kids' BookBuzz (U.S.) ""This wonderfully written and illustrated book series called All About Me is the preventive antidote teens desperately need to better understand themselves to immunize themselves from negative manipulation and influence that contribute to destabilizing mental health conditions."" - Marriage and family therapist Sarah Forni, M.A. ""The All About Me book series ... offers hope that we can support a new generation of teens who are able to make better decisions, understand their emotions, communicate more effectively, and defend themselves from harmful influence."" - Susan Glaser, Ph.D., and Peter Glaser, Ph.D., international communication and leadership consultants, researchers and authors of Be Quiet, Be Heard: The Paradox of Persuasion

... a guide for younger readers on how to resist the influences and pressures that lie all around us. Author David Sobel encourages children to understand the reasoning behind their actions and to remember to act for yourself, and avoid being a puppet. With a strong message for readers, What's the Catch? is a solid and highly recommended read. - Midwest Book Review (U.S.)

... a guide for younger readers on how to resist the influences and pressures that lie all around us. Author David Sobel encourages children to understand the reasoning behind their actions and to remember to act for yourself, and avoid being a puppet. With a strong message for readers, What's the Catch? is a solid and highly recommended read. - Midwest Book Review (U.S.) How are teens supposed to make good health and life decisions, now and in the future, if they don't understand themselves and how influential people and social media can manipulate them? What's the Catch? ... is strong preventive medicine - equipping teens with the insights, tools and skills to avoid questionable influences, pressures and stress. - Kenneth R. Pelletier, Ph.D., M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and author of Change Your Genes, Change Your Life Mark Twain once said that it is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. Sobel successfully takes on the even harder task of helping teens learn to separate facts from non-facts and how modern media makes this difficult. By bringing them into the conversation with a light touch, he supports their understanding the science of persuasion and how to make use of information, rather than be used by it. - James Fadiman, Ph.D., cofounder, Sofia University Our teens swim daily in a rushing river of media and What's The Catch? provides essential, accessible tools for kids, and their parents and teachers, for understanding and navigating this cascade of information. As a long-time Media Literacy and SEL teacher, I was impressed with the ways in which Dr. Sobel invites students into a reflective conversation using science and specific, relatable examples. This intelligent and engaging approach of the All About Me book series supports students in developing their own internal compass for understanding their own reactions as they set a thoughtful course through their media saturated world. - Renee Fadiman, M.F.A., Media Literacy and SEL Educator What's The Catch? gives readers specific exercises to help them be better prepared for recognizing temptations that can easily derail their long-term goals. My students loved learning about themselves. - Susan Josephs, literacy teacher, the TEAK Fellowship What's the Catch? is an essential book for teens and tweens that do not want to be manipulated by advertising and authority. Chock full of useful and interactive activities ... What's the Catch? is a great book. ... I highly recommend (it) to middle school and high school-aged teens and tweens ... All middle school, high school, and public libraries should own a copy. - Kids' BookBuzz (U.S.) This wonderfully written and illustrated book series called All About Me is the preventive antidote teens desperately need to better understand themselves to immunize themselves from negative manipulation and influence that contribute to destabilizing mental health conditions. - Marriage and family therapist Sarah Forni, M.A. The All About Me book series ... offers hope that we can support a new generation of teens who are able to make better decisions, understand their emotions, communicate more effectively, and defend themselves from harmful influence. - Susan Glaser, Ph.D., and Peter Glaser, Ph.D., international communication and leadership consultants, researchers and authors of Be Quiet, Be Heard: The Paradox of Persuasion

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David Sobel, M.D., M.P.H., is a practicing physician and regional Director of Patient Education and Health Promotion for Kaiser Permanente Northern California. He is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge's Center for Health Sciences. Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. (1942 - 2018), was an award-winning psychologist and author whose 20+ books and pioneering research on the bilateral specialization of the brain have done much to advance our understanding of how we think.

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