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Scared Adolescence: Suggestions for working with Adolescents’ Religious and Spiritual Identity
Clara E. Moorer
Cheyney University
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Abstract
The paper will attempt to captivate and motivate the mind of psychologist working with teen between the ages of 12-17 who struggle to understand how to break through regions and spiritual barriers that may prevent them from adequately severing them to their best advantage.

Sacred Adolescence: Practical Suggestions for Psychologist Working With Adolescents’ Religious and Spiritual Identify When examining sacred Adolescence it’s important to realize the significant of religious and spiritual identity. “Psychologists’ limited knowledge, and awareness and skills interference to the process of adolescents’ spiritual/ religious/nonreligious identity may result in their neglect of spiritual/ religious issues in psychotherapy.” (Danielle Magaldi- Dopman, 2010) Like most of us teen need to feel safe and understood in order to open and allow therapy to be a useful tool in growth, development and overcoming a particular issue that they may be facing. When providing psychotherapy for a teen one must examine the following; religious practices and belief of not only the parent of tat teen but how deeply involved that teen may be in that particular belief. How that teen identifies with him or herself spiritually, and does this identity benefit them as person. It is also important to realize the immaturity of the brain of an adolescent. The brain doesn’t reach its full growth maturity until the age of 25. “At the same time, the prefrontal cortex communicates more fully and effectively with other parts of the brain, including those that are particularly associated with emotion and impulses, so that all areas of the brain can be better involved in planning and problem-solving.” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014) Because of these challenges teen may find it difficult if not impossible to say the lease to seek the help they so desperately need. “ For adolescent clients in particular, psychologist would want to be competent to work on issues that are related to identity development, as this is the primary development task of adolescence” (Danielle Magaldi- Dopman, 2010) Teens struggle with many different type of stressors every day. A wide range of things can cause these issues. Such as It can be nothing but understandable that teens find themselves much more susceptible to stress stimuli than their adult counterparts and often find themselves feeling overwhelmed and emotionally unstable. Due to their limited capacity for self regulation and feel regular subsepatbility to peer pressure, adolescents are at the most risk when they navigate and experiment with social media.(AAP) With the sudden upraise and constant push to media frenzy we as a people of the modern age as a whole have found social media to be a necessary luxury to stay connected to friends, family, co-workers and current events. Everything can be found said and publicized in any social media site available. So where at one time bullying and peer pressure was limited to the hallways of local high schools, now they have entered our homes without warning or invite like thieves in the night. But its not your grandmothers peals they are after, it’s the self-esteem and self respect of our unsuspecting teenagers.
Social media is the newest form of attack against us and has emerged new term “cyber bullying”. Cyber bullying can be defined as deliberately using digital media to communicate false, embarrassing, or hostile information about another person (AAP). Cyber bullying and harassment (used interchangeably) call both bench marks for “facebook depression” – depression brought on when preteens and teen spend a great deal of time on social media sites, such as facebook, then begin to exhibit classic symptoms of depression. Acceptance by and contact with peers is a essential element of adolescent life. When an adolescent feels a discord in this relationship with their peers and their spiritual identity no doubt is affected negatively as they are less likely to focus on their spiritual identity as a whole and are more likely to draw closer to psychotically destructive behavior. This requirement