TUNING INTO TEENS TRAINING

Tuning into Teens is a six session program generally conducted over six weeks.
The program is designed to support parents to help and teach their teenage children to control, understand and express their emotions in healthy and positive ways.

TINT helps parents to recognise, understand and respond to their teens emotions, which in turn helps their teens manage their own emotions.

Tuning into Teens offers a range of approaches and strategies grounded in the idea of emotional intelligence.

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THE COURSE

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is about using your emotions to guide you through the world. It is about being able to use your own knowledge of emotions to make decisions, to manage anger and conflict and to calm yourself down.  High EQ helps you to build your relationships, to know what is happening in social situations, and assists you to manage social interactions.

 Research has shown that teenagers with high emotional intelligence:

  • are more aware, assertive and strong in situations of peer pressure

  • are more easily able to make friends and resolve problems with others

  • cope better when times are tough

  • have fewer mental health and substance abuse difficulties

  • are able to develop more positive and stable relationships as they grow older

  • are more determined in succeeding in all aspects of their life.

The program aims to teach parents about how they, as parents, can help their teenage children develop good emotional skills.For example:

awareness of what emotions their teen is experiencing

to view their teen’s emotions as opportunity to connect with them and guide them

helping their teen identify and describe what they are feeling

learn to listen to their teen’s problems without judgement

strengthen their and their teen’s skills problem solving and learning to cope with boundaries and limitations

Parents and carers of pre-adolescences and teenagers.

Tuning into Teens involves watching video material, group discussions, role plays and home activities, where parents try out different ways of responding to their teenager’s emotions. Parents are encouraged to share experiences and ideas within the group.If comfortable, the co-facilitators may use these as examples to explain and teach the skills of emotion coaching.