Sentences with phrase «crisis of adolescence»

Not exact matches

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Our first order of business for parenting and families ought to be to hammer out a gospel context for the transition to adulthood, adolescence and young adulthood, comparable to the one we are developing for the mid-life crisis.

Conversion is a crisis of puberty and adolescence.

For instance, most of the crises in adolescence, particularly in juvenile delinquency, are the result of inner conflicts between ideal behavior and those urges, many of them primitive, which the adolescent seeks to enjoy.

As they grow, children encounter many large and small crises both expected and unexpected: birth itself, weaning, toilet training, separation from parents, illness, accidents, the birth of a brother or sister, bad dreams, starting school, learning to read, making friends, adolescence — these and many other experiences provide the potential for problems of varying intensity.

Stage five, adolescence, is the period of the identity crisis when a youth struggles to gain a firm sense of who he is as a person, separate from his parents.

I suggest that... we are not at the beginning of continually accelerating change, but that we are in the middle of a unique transition crisis, like adolescence, as we make the jump from an undeveloped scientific and technological society to a fully developed one....

That is, very often in the crises that occur at age 30, 40, or later a major issue is the reactivation of a guiding Dream... that goes back to adolescence or the early 20's, and the concern with its failure.»

As a vision of adolescence facing a life - and - death crisis, it's far too tidied, controlled, and sober to come off as relatable.

Provoked by forbidden passions, Lester Burnham (Spacey) decides to make a few changes in his rut of a life, changes that are less midlife crisis than adolescence reborn.

And now comes the apex of adolescence: the identity crisis.

However, this bookish adolescence was shadowed by the war, by his parents» divorce and the absence of his father, and at 15 he experienced a winter of psychological crisis.

For example, the combination of guilt and fear a young woman with anorexia may have experienced on entering adolescence, confused about beginning to emotionally separate from her parents yet (because of her restricted emotional literacy) ill - at ease with her peer group — facing a developmental crisis she had been unable to articulate.

In fact, that is a lot of what adolescence is about; learning the difference between a crisis, which needs an instant, protective response (amygdala) and situations which are not crises that, instead, need a calm and rational response (prefrontal cortex).

(D) Aboriginal children often suffer acutely from an identity crisis in adolescence, especially if brought up in ignorance of or in circumstances which deny or belittle their Aboriginality.