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The most important factor we need to concern ourselves with when working with teens is our ability to establish trust. Failure to establish trust between ourselves and a teen places a limit right away on how influential or helpful we can be. We want to ask all the questions buzzing around in our brain, or voice all of the concerns we may have, but doing these things without trust in place first will ultimately jeopardize our ability to make the connection we want to both now and later on.

For the most part, there is a principled way we can do this. The first step is in our approach.  We should not start a conversation by assuming negative intent, we should always assume positive intent,...