Teenagers

Hampshire Healthy Families is here to help signpost you to trusted resources and websites to help with supporting your teenager.

Teenager’s brains work differently to adult brains. Developing independence and freedom is one of the central parts of being a teenager. Your teenager may be more focused on living for today, having fun, testing boundaries and exploring their identity than they are following rules.

To find out more about the teenage brain please follow the link to see how neuroscience helps us understand teenagers.

Back to School Secondary Leaflet

The past few months have been very different from any other time we’ve known. For everyone, there have been different circumstances to get used to, and the situation is still changing. For most secondary school pupils, there’s been a long period of home schooling. Returning to school after the summer holidays might feel like quite a big deal or it might be something you’re excited to get back to. However you feel about returning to school, this booklet is designed to give you hints, tips and activities to try so that you move back into school life feeling confident and calm.

These fun activities are focused around the key areas of

• Routine
• Relationships
• Feelings
• Managing Change

They will be most accessible for young people aged between 11 - 14 years and can be used at home, school or other settings.