Supporting Your Adolescent: Tips For Parents

Adolescence is a time for young people to define their place in the family, peer groups, and the larger community. During this stage of their lives, youth struggle with the transition from childhood to adulthood. During childhood, they depended mainly on their parents for economic and emotional support and direction. In adulthood, though, they will be expected to achieve independence and make choices about school, work and personal relationships that will affect every aspect of their future.

This brochure gives parents the underpinning they need to help their adolescent children transition to independence. Parents will learn about healthy adolescent development and how to find the resources that can help them if a child gets off track.

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