A Translation Report On Helping Your Anxious Teen(Chapters 8-10)

At home and abroad,it is difficult for parents to parent an anxious teen.The translation material is selected from Helping Your Anxious Teen(Chapters 8-10)written by Sheila Achar Josephs.This book that is based on scientific research and clinical expertise and cognitive behavioral strategies aims to fully analyze the difficulties so as to provide scientific and effective methods and advice for parents to deal with their teens' anxiety,stress and worry.Therefore,this book can help a lot in dealing with anxious teens in their critical time and promoting their healthy development.Meanwhile,the translation can effectively help Chinese parents deal with all kinds of psychological problems of their teens,and it may provide some valuable knowledge for relevant Chinese researchers.The report consists of five chapters.Chapter One is an introduction of the translation project from the following aspects:background,theoretical foundation,purpose and significance.Chapter Two introduces the author,contents and the linguistic features of the source text.Chapter Three illustrates the pre-translation preparations,translation difficulties and post-translation proofreading.Chapter Four discusses the translation strategies and methods.Based on Nida's functional equivalence theory,the translator adopts free translation and literal translation.The translation methods employed consist of such as amplification,conversion,division,etc.Chapter Five summarizes the experience and lessons learned from the process of translation and some unsolved problems.In all,the translation practice helps the translator acquire a better understanding of translation work and have a much deeper understanding of translation theory and translation methods,and learn a lot in the translation.Meanwhile,it also makes the translator grasp a lot of professional knowledge about psychology and about teens'anxieties.Psychological knowledge and parenting strategies gained from the book also give great assistance to the translator pursuing a teaching career.