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    Adolescence involves rapid physical growth and sexual development brought on by changes in hormone secretion. It is a period of transitioning from childhood to adulthood that involves adjusting to a changing body and new social demands. While historically viewed as a time of "storm and stress", modern research shows adolescence to be a more gradual process of maturity that varies between individuals and cultures. Physical changes of puberty can bring pride or confusion depending on cultural and family influences during this challenging period of development.

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    Adolescence: Adolescence: Physical Growth, Sex and Social Development

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    ADOLESCENCE

    Adolescence: Physical Growth, Sex and


    Social Development
    Introduction

    • Adolescence -historically considered a period of rapid


    growth, changing moods and rebelliousness.
    • The founder of American Psychology G. Stanley Hall
    described adolescence as a period of “Storm and Stress”
    • The role of the parents to be that of restraining and
    control.
    • The more recent psychologists like Erikson state that the
    extent of adolescents disturbed state of mind and body
    and parental conflict has been exaggerated.
    • Adolescence is likely to be a challenging and some times
    difficult period in the young persons struggle towards
    maturity.
    Introduction
    • Adolescence is a period of accelerated growth after the first year of one’s life
    which is also a period of rapid growth.
    • The physical growth is fastest in the first year of one’s life when child is
    likely to triple his birth weight, grow several inches in height and gain
    control of his body to great extent.
    • The earlier psychologists viewed this period as being much shorter and
    more dramatic than what researchers have discovered in more recent past.
    • The earlier psychologists identified onset of adolescence from accelerated
    physical growth with increase in hormonal secretion as well as development
    of internal sex organs of both female and male
    • The general belief about adolescents being very temperamental, moody and
    hard to understand is also being substituted by a more understandable
    period of youth getting adjusted to emerging drives and urges due to change
    in their body chemistry and the new social demands placed on them by the
    family and society. However, the adolescents do not undergo any radical
    change in their personality as was believed earlier.
    Introduction

    • There are wide differences in the different


    cultures and in various socio-economic classes
    within the same culture about the age at which a
    youth becomes an adult.
    • Similarly the age of adulthood differs for boys
    and girls. The problems confronting a poor
    tenant’s daughter in a remote village are very
    different than the daughter of an affluent loving
    family of suburb of big city.
    Physical Development in Adolescence

    • Adolescence begins in biology and ends in culture.


    • Maturity of adolescence
    ▫ Role of parents-mature suggestions
    ▫ Consultation with peers
    • Puberty
    ▫ The culture may facilitate or hinder the young persons
    adjustment to the physical and physiological changes
    of puberty.
    ▫ It may influence whether these changes become a
    source of pride or of anxiety and confusion.
    Hormonal Factors in Development

    • Adolescent Growth
    • Skeletal Growth
    • Sexual Development
    Psychological Aspects of Adolescent
    Growth and Development
    • There are many factors, which play a role at this
    stage in forming the personality of adolescent.
    ▫ Parental Support
    ▫ Peers influence
    ▫ Role of significant others

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