Adapting to the changing needs of adolescents: parenting practices and challenges to sensitive attunement.

•Brain development is associated with changes in adolescents’ motivation and behavior.•Parents must balance safety concerns with support for autonomous decision-making.•Parenting practices include: positive engagement, supervision/guidance and open communication.•Sensitively attuned parenting requires adapting practices to Individual differences.•Sensitive attunement is a putative mechanism for reducing adolescents’ problem behavior.