Parents of teenagers: here are the 3 main reasons why you should turn to a psychologist

Consulting a psychologist with your teenager when you feel that the flow is no longer flowing or that there are unsolvable problems can be a first step to renew the dialogue. Florence Brami is a psychologist from the Paris region and receives parents and children in difficulty in her office on a daily basis. She also shares her advice on Instagram with her account @dr_florencebrami. She returns for us to the problems that push parents to ask for help.

School orientation

Among the first subjects that generate the most anxiety is academic orientation, the famous Sup course. “ I receive more and more young people and parents who suffer from stress and anxiety related to orientation, explains the specialist. They feel completely lost and don’t know, despite all their efforts, if they will be able to get what they want.”

Risky behaviors of adolescents

The second reason for the consultation is risky behaviors Parents are concerned about their adolescents’ behaviors that are dangerous to them. There are all the eating disorders that develop enormously in girls. They start around age 13 and don’t resolve until they are taken into care. “ As soon as we are at a physiological development of the little girl and this body, she no longer controls it and it no longer corresponds so much to what she sees and what she would like, the first thing they can do to control something is to limit their diet”, underlines the psychologist. A phenomenon exacerbated by social networks and influencers who give completely unfounded, even dangerous, advice for losing weight. We can also mention all the scarifications and attacks of the body that generally go hand in hand with a form of depression or depression.

Social concerns

Generally, in this case, it is teenagers who ask to see someone because they have problems with their friends. They feel they have decreased self-esteem. “The adolescent evolves with his friendships, discovers his personality with his friends, sometimes he needs to talk about it and parents are not the best people to talk to », warns Firenze Brami. It is common for the psychologist to often discover problematic relationships with parents in the background. In social relationships we also find teenagers who consult each other because they are heartbroken, their parents are upset, they don't know how to help them.

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