Stephanie Pierson Author

Stephanie Pierson has written on teen, family and lifestyle issues for years. She is a contributing editor for Metropolitan Home Magazine and a creative director at a New York advertising agency. Her first book, Because I'm the Mother, That's Why! dealt with issues of raising children and husbands and was optioned and developed as a sitcom by 20th Century Fox and CBS. She is the co-author of Merilu Henner's book I Refuse To Raise A Brat and has recently written Vegetables Rock! about teenage vegetarianism which has won numerous awards. She has appeared on Oprah. Phyllis L Cohen is a Clinical Social Worker and Psychotherapist, who has had a full-time private practice in Manhattan and Brooklyn for over twenty years. She is a lecturer on issues of adolescence, a former co-founder and Clinical Director of Brooklyn Center for Families in Crisis, Director of Thomas Asleen Youth Project of JBFCS and director of Female Adolescent In-Patient Service at Kings County/Downstate Medical Center.