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Teenagers – Understanding the teenage brain: Making sense of their emotions and behaviours

Juggling the stressful demands of work and family can harm employee and family wellbeing, having a negative impact on work productivity. Work and Family Support Programs resource employees to thrive and nurture a family-friendly workplace culture.
  • 1 Hour
  • Seminar (Specialised)
  • Working Parents
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Description

Parents and carers can experience challenging behaviours at all stages of their children’s development – however, generally none are as difficult to navigate as the teen years. Working parents raising one or more pre-teens or teenagers often experience argumentative, volatile and sometimes even downright disrespectful behaviour.

According to brain researchers, this volatility is a normal part of adolescence, however, when working parents and carers don’t have the understanding, tools and strategies to help their children navigate this period successfully – it can be stressful and have a negative spillover effect in the workplace.

Resourcing employees with caring responsibilities to navigate the teen years more confidently will help them to succeed at home so they can be more focussed and productive at work. Workplace programs that support working parents and their families to thrive, nurture a family-friendly workplace culture.

Designed for working parents and carers raising children aged pre-teen and teenager.

Structure

Flexible learning with:

  • Interactive Webinar.
  • Webinar Recording.
  • Tip Sheet.

Each session supports employees to develop their knowledge and skills with:

  • A live 1-hour interactive webinar with step-by-step strategies.
  • Opportunity to ask questions with a family wellbeing expert.
  • Engaging with interactive elements including polls and reflective activities.

After the webinar participants and their family have access to:

  • Webinar recording (for 4 weeks or the duration of 6 or 12-month webinar series).
  • Downloadable Tip Sheet with links to further resources.

Each individual session can be part of a 6 or 12-month webinar series. Providing working parents with ongoing programs throughout the year, empowers employees to develop and embed sustainable wellbeing practices.

Learn more about our 12 and 6-month programs at the links below:

Learn more about WWP 12-month program

Learn more about WWP 6-month program

The Win Win Parenting Program is developed by family wellbeing expert, Dr Rosina McAlpine, and offered in partnership with TELUS Health.

Availability

All of our learning programs are delivered in English. Local languages may be available for an additional fee.

Objectives

The step-by-step practical strategies in this session help busy working parents and carers to better understand:

  • The physiological changes in the teenage brain.
  • Teens’ challenging behaviours and emotional outbursts.
  • Strategies for navigating the pre-teen and teen years successfully including how to:
    • have a positive relationship with their teen
    • keep them safe
    • nurture more peace at home and
    • have a better understanding of their child as they progress through adolescence into adulthood

By attending this session, parents and carers raising teenage children will have a better understanding of the many changes that occur during the teen years, practical strategies to navigate the teen years successfully and how to continue to nurture a positive relationship with their child.

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