Clinical Director Outlines How to Talk to Your Teens Effectively.

Gary Regan, a licensed social worker and the clinical director of the Adolescent Partial Hospital Program at Bradley Hospital provides tips for parents on how to have an effective conversation with their adolescents. (WJAR)

(WJAR) — Talking to your adolescents effectively can be a difference-maker.

"Teenagers get so upset when any adult says 'Oh, when I was a teenager.' You lost them for the next fifteen minutes once you make that statement," said Gary Regan, a licensed social worker and the clinical director of the Adolescent Partial Hospital Program at Bradley Hospital.