--- abstract: |- Adolescence is a period of experimenting, experiencing and expanding. Adolescents need help and guidance in decision-making, problem solving, critical thinking, developing interpersonal skills, self-awareness, empathy, coping with stress and managing emotions. The rebelliousness and dislike for parental intrusion usually keeps parents at bay because teenagers do not relish the idea of help and guidance from parents. However, this may not always be so. Beneath frequent violent outbursts, sudden mood swings and related interpersonal problems of an adolescent, there may be a person crying out for professional help. All adolescents need support and guidance. When parents find it difficult to handle signs of trouble, professional help should be sought at the earliest. Extra care is needed while offering help to adolescents problems because it is not easy for teenagers to accept the fact that they need help. Attempts should be made to understand the adolescent, and to safeguard, protect and guide him/her. The Family Life & Life Skills Education Programme is a good support system for adolescents at the community level. altloc: - http://www.jiacam.org/0101/Jiacam05_2_3.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: M.K.C. given: Nair honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2005-07 date_type: published datestamp: 2005-08-06 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/44/90 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Sharma given: I honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Sagar given: Rajesh honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Srivastava given: Mona honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Johnson given: Beena honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 4490 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/4490/1/Jiacam05_2_3.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: ~ lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:09 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 2 pagerange: 3 pubdom: TRUE publication: Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health publisher: Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 17:00:16 subjects: - jiacam succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: "Family Life & Life Skills Education for Adolescents: Trivandrum Experience\n" type: journalp userid: 5510 volume: 1