Adolescence

Introduction1

Adolescence1

Discussion2

Adolescence, Society and Media2

Changes3

Physical Development3

Middle Adolescence4

Late Adolescence4

Cognitive Development4

Early Adolescence4

Middle Adolescence5

Late Adolescence5

Emotional Development5

Early Adolescence5

Middle Adolescence6

Late Adolescence6

Adolescence's Impact on Learning and Teaching6

Conclusion7

References9

Understanding Adolescence

Introduction

Adolescence

Adolescence is a transitional phase between childhood and adulthood. It is a common term which resides in teenage time period and puberty. Changes in a person's hormonal pattern complement puberty in early youth and it can also expand beyond the defined teenage time period (Coleman and Hagell, 2007, p.3). There is no confined age group for adolescence as per scientific rationalization. Yet, there are some common changes during development which almost all the teenagers experience in their transition span. A child passes through a number of stages on their way to becoming adults. To many people there are four to five phases of growth during which they learn many significant things. They phases are infancy, early childhood, late childhood and adolescence which prevails from age 13 to 18 most precisely, although there are no certain limitations. You can help yourself understand this difficult phase by looking at its position on the sequence of growth. It is placed right before the last stage of becoming an adult. At this time, adolescents decide on their future options and wonder about starting their own families. Here, factual decision making ability comes into action on almost daily basis. They have to select what to wear and what kind of friend circle they should form around them.

A noticeable gap appears between them and their parents in this phase since they wish to experience every boring and exciting opportunity available or maybe unavailable for them. They start to relate themselves with other adults who can be males or females. They are interested in what other adults are keeping them in the society. What jobs are they doing? How they are doing? In fact, they mostly crave for lonesome time with no intervention from parents. Day dreaming is the common yet important pastime for them. They plan about their future and things they will do when they grow up like travelling around the world, buying sports car and lining on the moon. Adolescence is prone to the possibility of disorientation and innovation. This transitional phase is capable to come up with the quest of independence issues and self-identity. At times, adolescents may experience drugs, alcohol and sexuality. Peers and external facade tend to gain more significance than ever.

Discussion

Adolescence, Society and Media

The society considers people over 18 as adults. There are some exceptions like when a person deliberates behave elderly and vice versa. Parents get to learn a lot of useful things at hospitals where doctors tell them what to feed their babies and how to interpret their actions fro different wants. In the later years, school and teachers facilitate the parents how to interpret their child and establish habits. The most problematic and challenging time is when adolescence begins (Wise, 2011, p.7). Even the teachers and school counsellors encounter problems understanding them. It is a stage of swift physical and emotional changes in the context of stress/ depression ...