Why Won't My Teenager Talk to Me? (2^nd Ed.)

Do you wish your son or daughter would tell you more about what is happening in their life, and that they would open up to you more often? Are you worried about them as they seem to be spending more and more time in their bedroom and on their smart phone? The teenage years can be a time of concern and worry for parents and carers from all backgrounds. However, Why Won?t My Teenager Talk to Me? offers the parent and care-giver insightful and practical advice, as to how to encourage positive and respectful two-way communication between you and your teenager.

The new edition of this essential book offers a positive way of thinking about the teenage years. So much has changed in the last five years since the book first appeared. Our knowledge of the human brain has increased, and this new edition includes a whole chapter devoted to the changing teenage brain.

Part 1 1. The teenage years 2. The changing brain 3. The STAGE framework 4. S - The Significance of parents and carers 5. T - Two-way communication 6. A - Authority 7. G - The Generation gap 8. E - Emotion Part 2 9. Teenagers and health 10. Sex and gender 11. Friends and the peer group 12. The digital world 13. Divorce and the changing family 14. Risk-taking and challenging behaviour 15. Conclusion: how parents can make use of the STAGE framework

Dr 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 Government. In addition to running workshops for parents of teenagers, he has created two series for TV, and written books and developed videos on the adolescent years. John’s pioneering work has been widely recognised, and in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2001 he was awarded an OBE for services to young people.