Life Span Development II School Age and Adolescence

Life Span Development II: School age and Adolescence 3 (2+1)

Lesson 29 : Problems during Adolescence

Classification/ types of Problems of Adolescence

The physical and psychological characteristics of adolescents and the nature of developmental tasks which they are expected to perform often pose certain challenges and problems for adjustment. Basically adolescents face problems related to their home, school and society. They are as follows:

Self Related	Home Related	School Related	Society Related
Body image Pimples Complexion Eating disorders Body changes Moodiness Touchiness Anger Hypersensitivity Rebellious Crushes Infatuation Day dreams	Authoritative parenting Poor rapport with parents Lack of communication Low socio- economic background Non conducive atmosphere Space constraint Comparison with others	Strict teachers Partial treatment Closed school atmosphere Unacceptable classmates Poor marks Too much home work No co-curricular participation Long school hours.	Gender bias Caste related problems Generation gap Orthodox practices Repressive atmosphere Over expectations Lack of friends

The problems listed in table are a few representative common problems which adolescents face. The more serious problems include drug addiction, alchoholism, smoking, truancy, sexual obsessions, etc. They may not appear in everybody. There are variations in the experience of these problems across people.