Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Under Pressure
Lisa Damour · 2020
82/100
👍 Worth It
Lisa Damour does something genuinely useful here: she reframes anxiety for girls not as a disorder to be eliminated but as a signal worth understanding, and she backs every chapter with clinical research. Parents of daughters will find it practical and compassionate; older teen girls will find it validating. The exclusive focus on girls is a real limit, but within that scope it's one of the strongest parenting-and-adolescent-psychology books available.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness84
Craft & writing82
Originality76
Evidence & accuracy86
Hype vs delivers80
Age-fit82
👁 Human-eye gut-check82
Penny’s verdict82
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