For parents of teens: Supporting parents with Understanding your teenager's brain

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For parents of teens: Supporting parents with Understanding your teenager’s brain

Helping parents to nurture wellbeing in their teenager with our dedicated parental pathway.

Adolescence is a time of enormous change; emotionally, socially and neurologically. During the teenage years, the brain undergoes a major period of development. This affects everything from decision-making and emotional regulation to communication and behaviour.

Two teenage sisters decorating a cake with their mother.

What’s behind the behaviour

Understanding your teenager’s brain was designed to do just that for parents, introducing them to ideas and techniques for nurturing wellbeing, backed up by Togetherness experts and other parents’ experiences. The pathway explains some of the major changes children experience as they go through their teenage years, and helps parents to understand their emotional wellbeing, as well as their changing emotional support needs.

So far, we’ve helped more than 25,000 parents to better understand their teenagers through the online course. Parents who have completed the pathway have shared that they are now better equipped to support their teenager’s emotional wellbeing, they feel supported and less alone, and have gained confidence in their relationships.