PSYCHOLOGY – The behavior of adults can contribute to friction with the young person in the process of empowerment.
It is sometimes perceived as an obligatory passage, an ersatz of contemporary initiation rite. It is also often put forward in an attempt to justify the relational difficulties that agitate families. However, the crisis of adolescence is neither a fatality nor a generality. And parents could contribute more to it than they realize. This is suggested by a study conducted in French-speaking Switzerland and published in the scientific journal Swiss Psychology Open. Far from wanting to add to the numerous injunctions to which parents are subjected, the authors hope that their work will be able to help adults to be more critical of the myth of the teenage crisis and to modify the perception they have of their child, in order to get through this period of life in a more serene way.
“There is a lot of research that has been carried out on the period of adolescence since the 1960s and, despite scientific evidence, stereotypes persist – I admit that this annoys me”cowards in the preamble Grégoire…
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