Understanding your brain (for teenagers only!)
- Preteen to Teenager
- English
- Modules
- Voiceover
-Course Modules
1.1 What is this course about?
1.2 What changes have you noticed?
1.3 Every cloud has a silver lining
2.1 How do we know about the teenage brain?
2.2 The main changes
2.3 The prefrontal cortex
2.4 The amygdala
3.1 The amygdala and reading faces
3.2 Knowing what you are feeling
3.3 The experiment
3.4 About the results
3.5 What could this mean?
3.6 What can parents do to help?
3.7 What can you do to help?
3.8 Some more ideas
4.1 Risk and brain development
4.2 Risks: positives and negatives
4.3 The accelerator and the brake
4.4 So who has to be the brake?
5.1 Risk and friends
5.2 An experiment
5.3 The results
5.4 More results
5.5 How does the brain affect risk taking?
5.6 Teenagers and gangs
5.7 How can we help our brain?
6.1 You and your friends
6.2 Research
6.3 An experiment
6.4 Teenagers' reactions
6.5 Why does this happen?
6.6 What can help?
7.1 You and your sleep
7.2 Change in your sleep pattern
7.3 Why do you need your sleep?
7.4 The growth hormone and the sleep hormone
7.5 Changing to an adult pattern
7.6 What can help?
7.7 Sleep and emotions
8.1 The positives
8.2 Eventually...
8.3 And finally...
9.1 Congratulations and feedback questionnaire
9.2 Acknowledgements and certificate
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About this course
Your teenage brain will go through a cycle of rapid growth during puberty. Sometimes, these changes can cause confusion, but they can also bring about many positives for young people. This course is a great place to start if you want to learn about how your brain starts to function differently as you grow into an adult.
Understanding your brain – for teenagers is for all teenagers who wish to understand their own development during puberty. The resources are tailored so that whatever your age, you can use the ideas and techniques to help better understand how to look after yourself during these changes.
Understanding your brain – for teenagers has been developed by a team of Clinical Psychologists, Child Psychotherapists, and Child and Family Practitioners. Everything you will follow and learn in the course has been informed by experience and is designed to be practical to help you in your everyday interactions. You’ll also learn about how the teenage brain functions compared to an adult, the brain’s involvement in developing relationships and how the brain impacts teenage sleep patterns.
The course follows 9 Modules, each taking around 20 minutes and broken up into manageable chunks called Units.
The first few Modules cover some ways of thinking and concepts that will help shape the approaches and ideas around the later sections, so this means it needs to be followed in order, one Module at a time. You don’t need to do it all in one go, and our advice is to take breaks and spread out your learning.
Understanding your brain – for teenagers is designed for all teenagers in any situation, but you might find perhaps you begin to feel you would benefit from more personalised or specialist support, so there are some additional resources signposted throughout to guide you.
We know that there are many different families, with different backgrounds, shapes and sizes. We have tried to consider some of the different needs of families in this course, but it hasn’t been possible to account for all backgrounds. If your personal situation isn’t reflected, we still hope that you find something helpful in the main ideas about developing close, connected relationships between parents and children and welcome your feedback to improve its relevance.