Parent-adolescent Communication And Adolescents' Healthy Growth

Parent-child communication is the process of transferring information and exchanging feelings in a wide variety of ways of communication between parents and children on the basis of blood ties according to their respective role positioning and attitudes and needs in commonly shared family situations. Parentchild communication, as an interaction between the two parties involved, is one of the internal mechanisms that may exert an influence on both parties. The study of parent-adolescent communication and adolescents' healthy growth is a key part of parent-child relationship studies, and it is made essential in reality by the needs of in proving parent-adolescent relationship and enhancing adolescents' mental health.At present, psychologists at home and abroad are attaching increasingly peat importance to parent-child communication study and have already made some achievements. However, empirical studies are still rare from the perspective of ideological and political education.First, this study aims at a comprehensive exploration of the communication issue between adolescents and their parents with focouses on the type, function, characteristics and the influencing factors of the communication.Secondly, this study will give a further analysis concerning the causes of the problems with parent-child communication in today's society, which can be divided into three categories: society, parents and the adolescents. Thirdly, this study will conduct a theoretical discussion of the influences on adolescents' healthy development of the parent-child communication, from the perspective of self-identification, selfesteem, academic records, peer relation and problem behaviour, thus providing for parents some effective theories about parent-child communication.Finally, as is known. parent-child communication and adolescents healthy growth requires making corresponding training programs, through which adolescents' healthy development can be enhanced. On the basis of such programs, some concrete and feasible methods of parent-child communication may be established so as to achieve the ultimate purpose of promoting adolescents' healthy growth.