Parenting Teens Book Cover Design Project

C'est ce que Innovate Psychology and Education recherchait dans leur book cover design

Updating my existing cover (see attached) so that it is more modern/contemporary.
The book is for Australian parents about helping their teens through their senior years of school and covers info about helping them with motivation, stress, school, parties, career decisions, conflict etc. The author (myself) is a clinical psychologist who specialises in working with teens. I sell this book through my website - see www.innovateonline.net -(so a small version of the cover in the products section of my site still needs to look good) and back of room sales. I've sold a few thousand of these over the last 9 years but the current cover feels dated to me.
I'm looking for something with clean lines, not cluttered, modern and bold. I'm wary of teen/parent images that look "happy American sitcom" (sorry if this offends).
I've had another self published book which had an entirely black glossy cover and while this looked great, it was a nightmare to sell because the covers got ve… Voir plus