This time has been described as a period between stages where the youth is relatively stable. These youth are between the ages of 6 and 12 years old and during this time they begin to move from a family centered orientation to a social orientation through the development of their own psychological and physical existence (Ohrenstein, 1986)
Furthermore, it is important that drugs and alcohol abuse do not take place in the adolescent household as they are particularly impressionable and can easily be swayed into experimenting with illegal substances. Drug prevention is especially difficult with regard to adolescents because teenagers are at an age in which they typically rebel against their parents and thus are not always amenable to counseling and advice (Bahr, Hoffman, Yang, 2005)
Adults often lose sight of the fact that they were once teenagers and negatively portray adolescents as disrespectful of their elders and even dangerous. One event that greatly impacted the media's portrayal of adolescents was the Columbine shooting, which has elevated suspicion of adolescents (Frymer, 2009)
An additional negative portrayal of adolescents is through the veiled (and sometimes explicit) eroticization of them in advertisements and the portrayals of underweight or even anorexic teenagers in popular culture. Portrayals of underweight teenagers promote body dissatisfaction (Harrison, 2006)
One additional issue facing adolescents is teen pregnancy. Many adolescents are presented (particularly by the media) with the impression that reproductive healthcare and contraception are negative (Jaworski, 2009)
There are multiple benefits of the internet, including that it helps adolescents meet more peers than they would be able to without the internet. However, the negative aspects of the internet include that adolescents can become involved in sexual predation, racism, and bullying (Subrahmanyam, Greenfield, 2008)
) and adhering to moral decorum. The media has also been shown to have a crucial, often detrimental effect on shaping adolescents' beliefs and even their brains and biology (Ward, 2005)
Adolescent Development Analyzing Adolescent Relationships with Parents: An Interview-Based Case Study and Assessment Adolescence is a time of great individuation in personality and role identification, both within families and within society at large, and experiences in the family can greatly influence the trajectory of personal and psychological development during this time (Grotevant & Cooper 1986; Grotevant & Cooper 1985). Familial relationships often undergo a major transformation during this period, with more shared influence apparent in parent-child relationships that often leads to greater conflict between parent and child, and especially between mothers and their adolescent children (Allison 2000)
Adolescent Development Analyzing Adolescent Relationships with Parents: An Interview-Based Case Study and Assessment Adolescence is a time of great individuation in personality and role identification, both within families and within society at large, and experiences in the family can greatly influence the trajectory of personal and psychological development during this time (Grotevant & Cooper 1986; Grotevant & Cooper 1985)
Adolescent Development Analyzing Adolescent Relationships with Parents: An Interview-Based Case Study and Assessment Adolescence is a time of great individuation in personality and role identification, both within families and within society at large, and experiences in the family can greatly influence the trajectory of personal and psychological development during this time (Grotevant & Cooper 1986; Grotevant & Cooper 1985)
The divorce of the subject's parents during her early adolescence necessarily had an effect on the relationship she developed with her mother, and the personality development of the subject herself. Research has shown that the impact of a positive parent-adolescent relationship can mitigate the negative impacts of divorce, and lead to many other changes to the parent-adolescent relationship following the divorce, as well (Hines 1997)
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Center for Disease Control, marijuana inhibits tumor-killing activity in the body, raises blood pressure, and increases the smoker's risk of a heart attack four times up to an hour after using the drug. "A study comparing 173 cancer patients and 176 healthy individuals produced strong evidence that smoking marijuana increases the likelihood of developing cancer of the head or neck, and that the more marijuana smoked, the greater the increase" (Volkow, 2005, p
His theory on the micro as well as macro systems that work together in order to allow a given child to develop is a suggestion that all the elements of the developmental process are interrelated closely. A delay in any part of the development as would therefore end up affecting all the areas of development (Papalia et al