Young People
Challenges for adolescents
- Accepting changes in body
- Adjustment to changes in sexuality
- Changes in relationships
- Becoming emotionally independent
- Achieving a useful social role
- Achieving economic independence
- Choosing values and morals by which to live
- Choosing a lifestyle & finding a place to belong
- Independent Decision making and problem solving
Factors which can make adolescence difficult:
- Changes from childhood to adulthood
- Hormonal: sexual and aggressive feelings
- Decreasing trust in adults and authority
- Pressure to be like friends
- Questioning identity; who am I?
- Loss: death, divorce of parents etc
- Feeling of being different
- Experimentation & risk taking
- Unemployment & poor education
- Conflict with parents
- Feeling lonely
- Homelessness (DV, CSA, child abuse or neglect etc)
- Physical illness