What is the Adolescence age?
According to the WHO, Adolescents are defined as the age group of 10 to 19 years old.
What does peer mean?
One who belongs to the same societal group especially based on age, grade, or status.
Mentions physiological changes in puberty in both males and females
Tanner's five stages:
-Tanner stage 1 describes what’s happening to your child before any physical signs of puberty appear
-Stage 2 marks the beginning of physical development. Hormones begin to send signals throughout the body
-Physical changes are becoming more obvious for both males and females in stage 3. Along with a growth spurt in height, your teen’s hormones are hard at work, furthering development from the previous stage.
-Puberty is in full swing during stage 4. Both males and females are noticing many changes.
-Stage 5 begins the culmination of your teen’s development. In this final phase, your teen will eventually reach full physical maturation, including their final adult height.
What is "peer pressure"?
Peer pressure is when you are influenced by other people (your peers) to act in a certain way.
Mentions psychological changes in puberty in both males and females
The storm-and-stress views and examines 3 key aspects of this view: conflict with parents, mood disruptions, and risky behavior.
A modern approach to the psychosocial changes of these phases explained that the most important psychological and psychosocial changes in puberty and early adolescence are the emergence of abstract thinking, the growing ability to absorb the perspectives or viewpoints of others, the development of personal and sexual identity, the establishment of a system of values, increasing autonomy from family and more personal independence, the greater importance of peer relationships of sometimes subcultural quality, and the emergence of skills and coping strategies to overcome problems and crises
How to maintain our mental health?
"شجرة الدعم الذاتى"