Discussion practices in teen parents’ film club

Teenagers’ parents experience objective difficulties in communicating with their adolescent children. They are in need for tools that can help to overcome the problems of teen-parent communication by developing the culture of experience in the child-parent relationship. Discussion practices used in a parent film club can be considered a resource that helps parents to discuss their acute problems in a safe environment, as well as to clarify possible solutions to problematic situations in their relationships with teenage children. The authors developed a methodology for club meetings, a film club program, and piloted it in 2020-2022. The following discussion methods are presented in detail in the article: polylogue, non-evaluating interview, amplification of meanings, «hat of questions». Examples of their usage are given. The results of the film club work were collected in a questionnaire. The generalized analysis of the feedback from participants is presented. As a result, we come to the conclusion that a group form of presentation of participants’ observations, emotions and reflections within discussion practices of a youth TV-series creates an effective basis for developing parents’ culture of experience. The condition to achieve this result in a film club is creating a common problem-semantic field of a group for a film, which is possible through suggested discussion practices.

culture of experience, discussion practices, problem-semantic field, child-parent relationships, adolescence, film club, youth series