Question

What is a adolescent.Nature charaacterstics,needs and prblems?

Answer 1

Adolescence refers to the period of human growth that occurs between childhood and adulthood. Adolescence begins at around age 10 and ends around age 21. Adolescence can be broken into three stages: early adolescence, middle adolescence, and late adolescence. Each stage has its own characteristics.Early adolescence is the first stage and occurs from ages 10 to 14. Puberty usually begins during this stage. Like Henry, people in this stage become aware of their rapidly changing bodies and start to worry about their physical appearance. They might experience shyness, blushing, modesty, and a greater interest in privacy.Relationships are often changing during middle adolescence. There is also worry about sexual attractiveness. Middle adolescents complain about their parents preventing them from becoming independent, and they withdraw from them. They may try to assert their independence by refusing to bathe, not cleaning their rooms, and picking up annoying habits. There is an intense focus on peer groups during middle adolescence, and teens in this stage tend to confide in each other more than they do their parents.By late adolescence, between the ages of 19 and 22, youth will continue to explore their sexuality and to experience different types of sexual encounters. Some youth at this stage will only be interested in casual dating and casual sexual encounters while other youth will limit sexual activity to emotionally intimate, committed, monogamous relationships. As youths' cognitive and emotional maturity has significantly improved over early adolescent stages, youths' sexual decisions become more thoughtful and wise, requiring less need for parental guidance or involvement. However, if youth have enjoyed an open dialogue with their parents, they may continue to turn to their parents for additional guidance regarding complex sexual or romantic issues and concerns.