Dr John Coleman OBE
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.
Books
Building on the success of The Nature of Adolescence, this book addresses the unprecedented changes affecting young people’s lives, including the social media explosion, AI emergence, pandemic impacts, and growing climate emergency awareness.
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?
This book offers a fascinating introduction to teenage brain development, and shows how this knowledge has changed the way we understand young people.
Useful articles
The STAGE framework: a new approach for parents of teenagers
“Yes, I get quite moody, quite a lot of the time. Like with parents and stuff, they say just do something, and I’d take it a bit too far, and like just storm out of the room, slamming doors.”15...
“From child to adult, the adolescent period represents one of the greats psychological transitions we experience.”
Dr John Coleman