Advice-Guide to Teen’s Parents: Therapists’ Suggestions to Improve the Bond

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.