The teenage years are one of the most challenging phases for both teens and their careers. Teenagerss usually start to face a lot of new pressures and can sometimes react in not so healthy ways when they encounter a problem. They may need counselling to cope with these problems and take the right approach to solving them. Some struggles are a normal part of growing up, like experimenting new ideas, dealing with peer groups, and going through changes in identity, interests, and moods, they usually characterise by no middle term ground.
When faced with a problem, teenagers usually go to the extreme thinking and start to automatically think that this is the worst problem ever. How can you deal with such type of thinking? Do you think it will always be this way? Can you think of a time when it was not bad? These questions will help bring the young person into the ‘middle’ and help them to see all sides to make a decision.
When counselling teenagers it’s important that they feel that they can assert their own feelings and ideas about a circumstance or situation. Counselling helps them to be more assertive in a positive way will help them work through the issues that they’re going through. Functional communication, verbal or not, allows the young person to express their own beliefs and their own needs and they need to be able to do that without being judged.