Capitalizing on formal thought in counseling adolescents on conflicts with parents.
Parent-adolescent conflicts are frequently sufficiently severe to require third-party intervention. Because the adolescent is more likely to be in a setting where counsel is more easily available, the helping person can make use of insight and emotional maturity that is concomitant with the adolescent's acquisition of formal thought.
D000293:Adolescent; D003071:Cognition; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011340:Problem Solving; D013850:Thinking