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a term not wildly used before 19th century
a long period of preparation for adulthood, in which young people remain economically reliant on their parents and spend most of their time in school or at leisure activities. |
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| adolescents spent their days working with their parents and other adults close to home, now they spend their days in schools or with their peers, now we force kids to go to high school so they don't take jobs away from adults |
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| Eriksons identity versus identity diffusion |
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| resolving this crises is the chief psychosocial task of adolescence |
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| a time out during adolescence from responsibilities and obligations that might restrict the young person's pursuit of self-discovery, they experiment with roles and personalities. |
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| the point in the identity development process that characterizes an adolescent at a given time (work, ideology and relationships) |
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identity achievement
moratorim
identity diffusion
identity foreclosure |
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IA established a coherent sense of identity
M- in the midst of a period of crisis and experimentation
ID does not have firm commitments and is not currently trying to make them
IF the individual has made commitments iwhout a period of crises |
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| Jean Phinney ethnicity possibilities |
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1. assimilation, adopting the majority cultures norms while rejecting their own
2. marginality living within the majority culture but feeling estranged and outcast
3. separation associating only with members of one's own culture and rejecting the majority
4. biculturalism, maintaing ties to both |
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| peak time between boys and their parents is 13-14 and girls 12-13 |
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| a small tightly knit group of between 2 and 12 friends generally of the same sex and age |
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| girls who begin dating prior to 15 |
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| less imaginative, less socially mature, less happy with who they are, more depressed and more superficial |
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| the earlier it begins, the more likely he or she is to become a chronic offender, before adolescents are often psychologically troubled, most are poor and come from divorced homes. disorganized families with neglectful parents who have mistreated their children and failed to instill them with proper standards of behavior |
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| two main risk factors for adolescence limited offending are |
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| poor parenting and affiliation with antisocial peers |
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a psychological disturbance characterized by low self esteem, decreased motivation, sadness and difficulty finding pleasure in formerly enjoyable activities, loss of appetite difficulty in sleeping and loss of energy.
25% of people will encounter depressive state once in their life, mexican american teens are especially susceptible |
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| diathesis stress model of depression |
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| which says people are more likely to become depressed with they internalize, an exposure to a stressful event or condition and the interaction between a preexisting condition |
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| refers to the hormonal activity in the brain and nervous system |
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more likely from divorced homes
high conflict and low cohesion, unpopular, have poor peer relations, twice as many females in adolescence experience depression |
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