Making Sense of....Teenage Psychology

What's it about?

What's really going on inside a young persons' head? This session offers an opportunity to explore their mind and behaviour, by putting their lives in context, looking at established theories and examining some of the latest neuroscientific research.

Learning Outcomes

* To place the concept of teenagers in an historical and cultural context
* To learn key theories concerning a person’s social, emotional and cognitive development
* To learn key theories concerning teenagers and their identity and self esteem
* To relate the theories to student’s own experience of adolescents
* To consider theories as a tool for identifying strategies for supporting teenagers through difficult transitions