What factors can contribute to maintaining a positive family climate during adolescence? How can we interpret the behaviors of teenagers? How can we stay connected with our children, in order to have the opportunity to define their autonomy and at the same time guide them in the safe exploration of themselves, the world, and relationships? Within the pages of this book, a wide range of issues concerning teenagers and their families is examined. Accurate information is provided about what constitutes expected and unexpected events during adolescence.

Proposals and ideas for managing difficulties and challenges are also provided, along with the criteria that should guide a family in seeking help from a mental health specialist. The overall approach to adolescent issues focuses on how we ask questions. The right questions provide us with the interpretive framework for understanding the behaviors of teenagers and - in this case - the right questions concern not the teenager as an individual, but the relationships in which they grow up. So this book is a book about care. The care of the teenager, the care of the family, and the care of the relationship between them.