The Psychology of the Teenage Brain offers all those involved in teenagers lives insight into whats happening in their brains and how understanding this can improve relationships and communication at this crucial stage.
Why do teenagers stay up late and struggle to get up in the morning? Do teenagers really take more risks? What is happening with teenagers hormones?
The Psychology of the Teenage Brain offers all those involved in teenagers lives insight into whats happening in their brains and how understanding this can improve relationships and communication at this crucial stage. It explains key topics including the way the brain changes during adolescence, the role of hormones, what we really know about risk and resilience, sleep, and peer pressure. It challenges the stereotype of the snowflake generation and explores young peoples mental health.
Written for all parents and caregivers, this book will help with the challenges of having a teenager in the home. It also offers crucial understanding for all students and practising professionals in the fields of social work, counselling, health and education working with teenagers.
1. Introduction to the teenage brain
2. Introduction to teenage
development
3. Raging hormones
4. 'Learning, learning, learning'
5. The
social brain
6. Wide awake at midnight
7. Is this the snowflake generation?
8. The teenage brain for key adults References
John Coleman trained as a clinical psychologist and was formerly a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the founder of a research centre studying adolescents and their families, and during his career he has also run a special school for troubled teenagers and worked as a policy advisor for the government. He was awarded an OBE for services to young people in the Queens Birthday Honours in 2001.
