Adolescents are faced with many difficult life decisions which, when coupled with their lack of self-knowledge, cause identity crises. Not secure in themselves, teenagers must make decisions concerning how they will act, with whom they will associate, and what life decisions they will choose. Ultima...

MOVIE REVIEW: REVIVING OPHELIA In the videorecording, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Mary Pipher outlines challenges that today's adolescent girls face. In particular, she emphasizes the way media manipulates popular culture and the negative backlash this has on sh...

Teen violence is very common over the U.S. "Violence is the threat or use of force that injures or intimidates a person or damages property" (Hoffman 1). "The United States of America, perhaps the greatest democracy in the history of the world, is also the most violent industrialize...

A Hated and Loved hero Have you ever met a smart mouthed, bewildered teen with uncanny wisdom that grabbed people in a way that didn't seem right? Here is an introduction to that distressed teen, Holden Caulfied. Being the protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye", Holden has intr...

Peer relationships are considered to be a dominant feature of preadolescence as well as adolescence, but systematically formed networks have rarely been studied. There is a lack of information and research in the area of social networking on the level of adolescents. The issue of belonging is extrem...

RECENT TRENDS IN TEEN BEHAVIOURINTRODUCTIONThere comes a time in one's life when they leave adolescence and enter the teenage years. During the teen years, thoughts about bodies, opposite sex, and sexuality come into mind. Over the decades, there has been a drastic change in teen behaviour. Some of ...