Books and Articles
I have written widely about all aspects of adolescence. Here is a small sample of my writing.
All About Adolescence: Understanding Development in Today’s World
Building on the success of The Nature of Adolescence, this book addresses the unprecedented changes affecting young people’s lives.
The Psychology of the Teenage Brain
Why do teenagers stay up late and struggle to get up in the morning? Do teenagers really take more risks? What is happening with teenagers’ hormones?
The Teacher and the Teenage Brain
This book offers a fascinating introduction to teenage brain development, and shows how this knowledge has changed the way we understand young people.
Why Won’t My Teenager Talk To Me?
Building on the success of The Nature of Adolescence, this book addresses the unprecedented changes affecting young people’s lives.
The Nature of Adolescence
While drawing on the North American literature on adolescence, it highlights European perspectives and also provides unique coverage of the topic by summarising and reviewing what is known about adolescence from a British viewpoint.
Parents and Digital Technology
This book is an indispensable guide for parents who may feel they are struggling to keep up, addressing the issues that young people and their families face in the world of modern technology.
Articles
Working with parents of teenagers
This article was written for the Parenting UK Newsletter in 2013. Introduction Support for parents of teenagers can play a critical role in helping families cope with difficult situations, and ensuring that problems first identified in the adolescent years do not...
Social media and teenagers, a practical approach
Is social media damaging the mental health of young people? It’s important to look behind the headlines. There is no doubt that today social media is seen by adults as representing a major threat to young people. There is much debate in the press and in public about...
Adolescence
This chapter appeared as Chapter 2.3 in “The Blackwell Companion to Social Work: 4th Edition” by Martin Davies, published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2013. What is adolescence? Lifespan theory as an aid to understanding adolescence Social change The importance of the family...
John Coleman
John Coleman is a psychologist with a long-standing interest in adolescence. He has had many different roles in his career, including running a therapeutic community for troubled teenagers, acting as Director of a research centre, advising Government as a civil servant, and holding various academic posts. Most recently he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Education, University of Oxford (2006-2015). His interests include parenting, the digital world, the teenage brain and young people’s health. He has written a number of books on the teenage years, and has an international reputation for his work on adolescence. In 2001 he was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for his work on youth.