to find his place in the world‚ but certain obstacles are preventing him from moving forward. The path to redemption is difficult for him because he doesn’t want to accept the responsibilities of being an adult. The novel shows that through adolescence a person faces many new changes that can be difficult to accept. Holden wants the preserve the innocence that a person has as a child. His cynical views of the world develop through his experience with the corruption of the adolescent world. “Certain
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enormous challenges. For many teens‚ illicit substance use and abuse become part of the landscape of their teenage years. Although most adolescents who use drugs do not progress to become drug abusers‚ or drug addicts in adulthood‚ drug use in adolescence is a very risky proposition. Even small degrees of substance abuse (for example‚ alcohol‚ marijuana‚ and inhalants) can have negative consequences. Typically‚ school and relationships‚ notably family relationships‚ are among the life areas that
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book Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction‚ examines the coming-of-age genre and its place in American culture. He makes a relatively solid case that authors use adolescent characters to enact social change‚ accurately asserting that “adolescence‚ youth‚ [and] innocence...become an idealised fictional category which literary writers can use to give a particular urgency to representations of subjectivity and socialisation that highlight their own social and political anxieties” (Millard 12)
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Adolescent Years Adolescence is the of the most significant changes that occurs for a child when developed from a child into a adult. This can carry them through many changes physically‚ emotionally‚ socially. During puberty boys and girl change in size‚ developing breast‚ growing pubic hair‚ changes in body odor‚ and acne. The adolescence stage usually starts occurring in between the ages of 10 and 19 in which boys and girls hypothalamus and pituitary glands
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Erik Erikson Erik Erikson is possibly the best known of Sigmund Freud’s many followers. He grew up in Europe and spent his young adult life under the direction of Freud. In 1933 when Hitler was in power of Germany‚ Erikson immigrated to the U.S. and began teaching at Harvard University. His clinical work and studies were based on children‚ college students‚ and victims of combat fatigue during WWII‚ civil rights workers‚ and American Indians. It was these studies that led Erikson to
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Copas. "Peer Pressure" and the Group Process: Building Cultures of Concern." Reclaiming Children & Youth 19.1 (2010): 12-16. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 8 Apr. 2011. Vega‚ William A. and Andres G. Gil. Drug Use and Ethnicity in Early Adolescence. Plenum Press. 1998. New York
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Family Lifestyle and the behavior of members within the family have been shown to have a direct affect on a teenager’s behavior everywhere. Any older person‚ especially a family member‚ can influence a child very easily because he always looks up to that family member. If a person in the family is involved in a criminal activity then the children can be turned on by this and become interested in doing the same thing. If the guardian or parent of a teenager does not punish him for doing something
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downstairs and their use of pencils and scissors are more controlled. Around age 7 they start to lose their baby teeth and grow taller and thinner. Girls start to show early signs of puberty around 10-11 and boys are often later than this age. Adolescence 12-19- Physical development during these ages is very different to each child. Boys will start to begin puberty whereas many girls already have periods and breast growth. Heights and strengths are different in both genders. Boys body shapes will
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Understanding child and adolescent development Erik Erikson in 1956 researched and developed Eight stages of development. According to Erikson‚ the socialisation process consists of eight phases – the ‘eight stages of man’‚ his eight stages of man were formulated‚ not through experimental work‚ but through wide-ranging experience in psychotherapy‚ including extensive experience with children and adolescents from low- as well as upper- and middle – social classes. Each stage is regarded by Erikson
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results in cognition becoming distorted. With distorted cognition‚ people begin to simply see things in black and white. This black and white thinking causes for the arguments to further themselves. b. How does the prefrontal cortex shift in adolescence?
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