He often uses the word crisis regardless of the context. He is difficult to understand: he may just offer the latest model cell phone to his teenager, and then make it disappear, simply because the latter uses it.
Most of the time troubles are just a phase and disappear without treatment. When the contrary is true, however, the parents shouldnt hesitate to ask for help from a specialist.
- This is not the umpteenth book about adolescence - the author takes a different perspective: rather than treating the teenager in crisis as a strange beast, she focuses on the odd animal that is the parent of a teenager.
Psychologist and author, Virginie Dumont is currently head teacher in a prevention association.