Fixing or preventing adolescence robs young people of the opportunity to be young, to experience their new-found powers of abstraction and intellectual capacity. What parents can do is work toward coping and gaining insight and regenerating themselves for the years ahead. It's difficult to be a care-giver for the adolescent syndrome. Teens may appear as accessible as a gas-station restroom. Check out the theory with teens you know.
Adolescence requires a mutual understanding of symptomatology.
These days, caregivers talk about how the caregiver and the one receiving care need to work interdependently. Using a medical model, the doctor and the patient need each other as active players in the recovery process. So should this new model in medicine serve as a metaphor for parenting an adolescent. This is a notion foreign to most modern parents. In our desire to protect our children from the harsh realities of life, we shield them from an essential coping mechanism, the ability to come to terms with failure.