Case 1: School student Rohan (name changed) used to beat his mother after every clash. When brought to a counsellor, he picked up a stone and aimed at the doctor. After a few sessions, he is almost stable, and is attending school regularly.

Case 2: Life was no bed of roses for 15-year-old Ragini (name changed). The reason: she got along with no one, except her boyfriend. Once, she ran away from home. On being questioned, she cited parental pressure. After five counselling sessions, she is calmer teen.

Jamshedpur, Feb. 2: The manifestation of extreme forms of disobedience in the recent times among adolescents has left experts in the lurch.

With a tremendous increase in cases, where victims are a direct consequence of faulty family environment, parents are being enrolled by counselling centres to help young minds.

“Parents play a major role to improve a child’s behaviour. If we trace the problem, we often find that the elders are some way associated with the problem,” said Atreyee Chandra, clinical psychologist at the Child Guidance Clinic at the Tata Motors Hospital.

The hospital has started a parent-training programme to help vulnerable young minds. While Rohan’s aggression was a direct fallout of his more- aggressive father, Ragini boasted of an orthodox family background where even healthy mixing with boys was considered a taboo.

“Kids tend to model the behaviour of their elders. So the parents have to be careful in setting examples,” said Ashok Patnaik, the head of department of Neuro-Psychiatry at the Tata Motors Hospital.

In the past one month, the counselling wing has enrolled as many as 20 more concerned parents.

Ragini and her mother are slowly discussing each other’s problems after the sessions.

In another incident, a parent-daughter duo suffering from insecurities came to the clinic.

The girl had turned a rebel teen after she found her mother following her everywhere, with a thought that her daughter might be caught in the wrong foot. Ultimately, both had trust issues.

“The mother had to be convinced that her daughter is a grown up individual with her own thoughts. The daughter, too, needed assurance that she could take care of herself,” said a psychiatrist, who dealt with the case.