{"id":19416,"date":"2017-10-10T04:11:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T04:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/?p=19416\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:38:58","slug":"decoding-teenage-mind-gulf-news-feat-child-psychologist-selma-yanik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/decoding-teenage-mind-gulf-news-feat-child-psychologist-selma-yanik\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoding the Teenage Mind &#8211; Gulf News feat Child Psychotherapist Selma Yanik"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The teenage body is a cocktail of hormones. Are parents and teachers paying attention?<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t poke the bear. Especially when the bear is your teenage son or daughter, who is experiencing not just awkward physical changes to their body, but a raging cocktail of hormones, issues with their self-esteem, moods, attention span, impulse control, and a full-blown identity crisis.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a lot to handle for someone whose frontal lobe \u2013 the decision-making part of the brain that controls impulses and thinks through the consequences of actions \u2013 is still developing.&#8221; [&#8230;]\n<p>&#8221; Selma Yanik, a child and youth psychotherapist at German Neuroscience Centre in Dubai, said: \u201cMany families move every single year, due to financial reasons, and struggle to find an affordable and good quality school, according to the curriculum preferred. Developing and maintaining friendships during the process of personality shaping are a big struggle, especially for teens.\u201d [&#8230;]\n<p>The full original article was published in <a href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gulf News<\/a> on October 9th 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teenage body is a cocktail of hormones. Are parents and teachers paying attention? &#8220;Don\u2019t poke the bear. Especially when the bear is your teenage son or daughter, who is experiencing not just awkward physical changes to their body, but a raging cocktail of hormones, issues with their self-esteem, moods, attention span, impulse control, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25080,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19416\/revisions\/25080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}