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Adolescent behaviour problems
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ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS
Adolescent behaviour problems
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Adolescent Behavior Problems
Many adolescents today have problems and are getting into trouble. After all, there are a lot of pressures for kids to deal with friends and family. For some youth, pressures include poverty, violence, parental problems, and gangs. Kids may also be concerned about significant issues such as religion, gender roles, values or ethnicity. Some children are having difficulty dealing with past traumas they have experienced, like abuse. Parents and their teenagers are struggling between the youth's wanting independence while still needing parental guidance. Sometimes all these conflicts result in behavior problems. Any number of isolated behavior problems can represent adolescent problems and delinquency-shoplifting, truancy, a fight in school, drug or alcohol ingestion.
Adolescent behaviour problems
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Vocabulary
Ethnicity : The fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.
Traumas : A deeply distressing or disturbing experience.
Isolated : Far away from other places, buildings, or people; remote.
Delinquency : Minor crime, especially that committed by young people.
Truancy : The action of staying away from school without good reason; absenteeism.
Intervention : Action taken to prevent or improve a course of events (from getting worse)
Confrontation : A hostile or argumentative situation or meeting between opposing parties.
Adolescent behaviour problems
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Adolescent behaviour problems
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Adolescence is a time for developing independence. Typically, adolescents exercise their independence by questioning their parents' rules, which at times leads to rule breaking. For example, drinking habitually, fighting often, frequent truancy, and theft are much more significant than isolated episodes of the same activities. Other warning signs include deterioration of performance at school and running away from home. Of particular concern are adolescents who cause serious injury or use a weapon in a fight.
Adolescent behaviour problems
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Children occasionally engage in physical confrontation. During adolescence, the frequency and severity of violent interactions may increase. Although episodes of violence at school are highly publicized, adolescents are much more likely to be involved in violent episodes (or more often the threat of violence) at home and outside of school. Many factors contribute to an increased risk of violence for adolescents
Adolescent behaviour problems
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Adolescent behaviour problems
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PARENTS
AND
CHILDREN
Adolescent behaviour problems
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20 tips to encourage good behaviour in teenagers.
Take time to actively listen
Set clear rules about behaviour
When rules are broken, follow up calmly and firmly
Encourage self-reflection
Children – even teenagers – do as you do, so try to be a positive role model for your child.
Choose your battles
Your child is an individual, and she needs to know that she’s valued and accepted for who she is
Let go of the wheel sometimes
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Tackle problems in a positive way
Praise and encouragement are powerful motivators
Plan ahead for tricky conversations
Keep ‘topping up’ your relationship
Share your feelings
Learn to live with mistakes
Look for ways to stay connected
Keep promises
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Respect your child’s need for privacy
Encourage a sense of belonging
Teenagers will be teenagers
Look for the funny side of things
Adolescent behaviour problems
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Questions
1. According to you how should be the relation between the parents and the children?
2. Should children treat their parents as friends?
3. What is the difference between generation earlier and the generation now?
4. Should parents be frank and open minded with their children?
5. How is your relation with your children / your parents?