human development and life transitions
concepts
Parents and their children relate, or interact, on a number of different levels: as playmates, as teacher and student, as healer and patient, as disciplinarian and offender. Interactions between parents and their children that are characterized by warmth, consistency, reciprocity, supportiveness, and openness have consistently been shown to be related to a range of positive outcomes. [Source: Encyclopedia of Counseling; Parent-Adolescent Relations]
parent-adolescent relations