Abstract
Despite the social and cultural changes, adolescence always appears as an evolutionary cycle full of controversies, rebellions, confrontations, provocations, idealization, and de-idealization. This period of great hormonal revolution and abrupt growth of a child's body also implies relational conflicts with the environment and relationships, mainly with the closest ones: the parents. The present article shows the synthesis of 80 interviews with therapists from Buenos Aires and Great Buenos Aires. They were asked about what would be their five main advice to teenagers’ parents who want to improve the relationship with their sons/daughters. The advice was manually selected and reunited in 35 tips forming a guide with explanations of each one.
Highlights
Adolescence is always described as a problematic period of abrupt changes
What we present in the following list is a synthesis of the explanations and comments that each therapist developed
We could combine the categories that apply to the synthesis in a triad: expressing love, activating communication, and setting healthy boundaries
Summary
Hormones levels, cognitions, emotions, and interactions, relationships, and bonds deal with transformations (Ceberio, 2013; Lutte, 1991). With such a number of changes at all levels, it’s impossible to avoid a crisis in a teen’s life and in the systems with which he/she interacts. The increase in hormonal level (Mafla, 2008), generates behavioral changes and make teens oppositional, abrupt, clumsy, altruistic, horny, hyper-affectionate, rebellious, disorderly, seekers of affection and recognition, blamers, disqualifiers, among other characteristics that make up part of the intricate process of growth towards the adult world (Ceberio, 2015). It does not mean that all these behaviors have to be tolerated, all of them are plausible limitations or regulations by the parents. Even in democratic families, these characteristics are extremely valuable in family functions (Martinez & Moran, 2001)
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