Coping with adolescence.

Abstract

Adolescence is a period of the life course involving extensive change. For some young people these changes stimulate further growth. This chapter present a model for understanding stress and its effects on adolescence. It focuses on normative developmental stresses and responses to them play a major role in adolescence and constitute. Emerging ideas about developmental psychopathology are essential to conceptualizations of stress and coping in adolescence. Developmental transitions include the entry into school in childhood, the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the transition from middle to older adulthood, typically linked with retirement. The developmental transition from childhood to adolescence, often called early adolescence, may be characterized by tremendous change. The research just described focuses at the individual level of analysis— the protective or coping aspects of individual adolescents. It would be a mistake, however, to focus solely at this level.