Communicating With Adolescents

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the tendency of adolescents to engage in high-risk behaviors and explores the solution of improving the quality of parent-adolescent communication. The paper reveals that adolescents are likely to do away with high-risk behaviors if there is healthy family communication and a perceived sense of confidence from their parents about making decisions on their own. The paper explains how interpersonal communication is used to accomplish four main functions.

Outline:
Parent-Adolescent Relationships
Using Interpersonal Communication to Parent-Adolescent Relationships

From the Paper:

"Adolescence is the period where a child goes through profound biological, psychological, and social development changes (Kaplan and Sadock 42). They fight for their independence by pushing the boundaries of parent-imposed limitations. They form social cliques and classify themselves with groups they feel they are most affiliated to. The need for social acceptance, compounded by their natural impulsiveness, presence of clinical depression and self-esteem issues, may put them at risk to make wrong choices."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Adolescent High Risk Behaviors. 12 June 2008. Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin Madison. 16 July 2008. < http://www.pediatrics.wisc.edu/education/clerkship/readings/AdolescentHighRiskBehavior.pdf >
• Borchers, Tim 1999 Interpersonal communication. Allyn and Bacon. 15 July 2008 < http://www.abacon.com/commstudies/interpersonal/inpatterns.html >
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• Jolly, Kim, Weiss, Josie A., and Liehr, Patricia. "Understanding adolescent voice as a guide for nursing practice and research." Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing 30.1 (2007): 3-13.

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