A Practical Guide to the Psychology of Parenting Teenagers: Understand Your Teen
Develop and improve your relationship with teenagers.

The teenage years are complex, exciting and often turbulent. Growth, development and learning are intrinsic to this period and every teenage experience is different. For anyone who cares about a teenager's wellbeing, development and learning, this Practical Guide offers a theoretically informed way of thinking about, understanding and actually living with teenagers.

Focusing on the three major issues prevalent in teenage years: achievement, belonging and control, and the behaviours that fall within these categories, experienced professional educational psychologist Kairen Cullen expertly draws upon a wealth of experience and the different psychological theories and approaches that can be used to address each issue.

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A Practical Guide to the Psychology of Parenting Teenagers: Understand Your Teen
Develop and improve your relationship with teenagers.

The teenage years are complex, exciting and often turbulent. Growth, development and learning are intrinsic to this period and every teenage experience is different. For anyone who cares about a teenager's wellbeing, development and learning, this Practical Guide offers a theoretically informed way of thinking about, understanding and actually living with teenagers.

Focusing on the three major issues prevalent in teenage years: achievement, belonging and control, and the behaviours that fall within these categories, experienced professional educational psychologist Kairen Cullen expertly draws upon a wealth of experience and the different psychological theories and approaches that can be used to address each issue.

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A Practical Guide to the Psychology of Parenting Teenagers: Understand Your Teen

A Practical Guide to the Psychology of Parenting Teenagers: Understand Your Teen

by Kairen Cullen
A Practical Guide to the Psychology of Parenting Teenagers: Understand Your Teen

A Practical Guide to the Psychology of Parenting Teenagers: Understand Your Teen

by Kairen Cullen

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Overview

Develop and improve your relationship with teenagers.

The teenage years are complex, exciting and often turbulent. Growth, development and learning are intrinsic to this period and every teenage experience is different. For anyone who cares about a teenager's wellbeing, development and learning, this Practical Guide offers a theoretically informed way of thinking about, understanding and actually living with teenagers.

Focusing on the three major issues prevalent in teenage years: achievement, belonging and control, and the behaviours that fall within these categories, experienced professional educational psychologist Kairen Cullen expertly draws upon a wealth of experience and the different psychological theories and approaches that can be used to address each issue.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785784507
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Publication date: 04/04/2019
Series: Practical Guide Series
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 4.60(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dr Kairen Cullen is a registered Practitioner Educational Psychologist. She has worked independently and for Local Authorities for over four decades. At this time she is involved in writing, consultation and media-related projects. This title is the second she has written for the Icon Practical Guides series, the first being A Practical Guide to Child Psychology (2011, 2018).

Table of Contents

About the author iii

Author's note iv

Section 1 Introduction to the psychology of parenting teenagers 1

1 About this book 3

2 The teenage years 12

3 Parenting teenagers and what psychology can offer to parents 26

4 Psychological theories and approaches 41

5 Theories that help us understand the teenage journey 54

Section 2 The major issues 61

6 Achievement 63

7 Belonging 73

8 Control and choice 86

Section 3 Every unhappy teenager is different: areas of particular challenge 101

9 Becoming a teenager 103

10 Communication 112

11 Family relationships 126

12 Peer relationships 139

13 Bullying 158

14 Intimate relationships and sexual development 165

15 Teenagers' learning 176

16 Lifestyle choices - drink, drugs, gambling, exercise and diet 189

17 Difficult feelings 197

18 Conclusion - final thoughts 201

References 205

Index 211

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