Adolescence Changes

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ABSTRACT: Adolescence is a period of stress and storm, the complications and competitions in modern life has made it difficult for adolescent girls to adjust to life situations with hormonal imbalances playing silent role. Every year they experience new friendships, changing friendship, broken relationships, detachments and attachments, parents attitude, new teachers, change in style and fashion, likes and dislikes, entertainment etc ... All these changes expect a new coping which they might or might not be able to live with. In these situations they get stressed and will require proper guidance, Counselling and support. Unlike adults they do not have a proper and repetitive schedule. Life changes every day for them. Even parents expectations …show more content…

It is characterized by rapid physical, biological and hormonal changes resulting in psychosocial, behavioural and sexual maturation between the ages of 10-19 years in an individual. World health Organisation (1997) defined adolescence as being between the ages of 10-19years. Adolescence if often described as a phase of life that begins in biology and ends in society (Sharma 1996). It means that physical and biological changes are universal and take place due to maturation but the psychosocial and behavioural manifestation are determined by the meaning given to these changes within a cultural system. The experience of adolescents during teen years would vary considerably according to the cultural and social values of the network of social identities they grow in. Adolescent girls are prone to experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions, insecurities, self-doubts and academic stress as they navigate their high school years. At this stage adolescent girls go through life stress and academic stress and cope to it with great …show more content…

The study and survey point out some of the stressful events young people experience, describe how young people deal with stress, and indicate the risk factors for young people most vulnerable to stress, depression and self destructive behaviour. Adults need to be familiar with the family, biological and personality factors that predispose a young person to depression. They can learn to recognize the kinds of psychological, behavioural and social events that most often signal trouble. Awareness of the way these risk factors "pile up" helps any adult living and working with adolescents to be sensitive when stress and depression are

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