The goal during puberty is to encourage safe forms of interaction that allow adolescents to test autonomy and make good assessments about their selected external events and how they make them feel internally.

“And yet, really the goal is during puberty to encourage as many safe forms of interaction that allow children, teens, really and adolescents, I keep calling them children, but what I mean are children going through puberty, that allow them to test this thing of autonomy so that they can start to make good assessments about their exteroceptive events that they are selecting and how those make them feel internally.”