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definition of adolescent

Adolescence is the period of life between childhood and adulthoodIf we have to temporarily place it at a certain age, adolescence would comprise more or less from 13/14 years to approximately 20 years.

It will be in this moment of life in which the individual understands about his reproductive capacity, evolves his psyche and where he begins to certainly plan and think about his future.

From the physical aspect, the changes that begin to register are several. In women, the first menstruation occurs, the breasts begin to grow, hair develops all over the body, the hips widen and when the reproductive system is "active", the woman begins to be fertile (able to procreate, have children). In men, the changes are different: the penis and testicles develop, the first erections and ejaculations begin to be experienced, the voice becomes thicker, hair appears on different parts of the body, but especially on the chest, the face and pubis.

Between childhood and adolescence, boys and girls who begin to experience these changes but who are not yet adolescents themselves are often referred to as “pubescent”. When most of these changes have already registered, we can say that adolescence has begun. Meanwhile, puberty will be that stage of transition between "child" and "adolescent".

We also said that psychically the human being experiences changes when entering this stage, and especially when it is in transit. It is at this stage where the completion of high school or middle school is recorded, and the question of what to do after basic and compulsory education is something that worries many. Study or work ?, It is usually a recurring question for many adolescents. Of course, the final decision will depend on internal factors (personal expectations, will, future projection, interests, capabilities) as well as external factors (family economic situation, parental influence, family relationship).

Just as when talking about childhood, the period before adolescence, here in ABC definition, we realized the importance of this moment as a consequence of being in which the emotional and intellectual livelihoods of the person were formed, these being key in the future, adolescence also turns out to be key in the sense that this is where it is going to produce a metamorphosis of body and mind that will be decisive when it comes to reaching good adulthood.

Of course that definition of age that I marked above is true but at the same time somewhat capricious, since age can vary from one individual to another based on the fact that each person has an experience and an environment different and unmatched from that of other. That is why many times, we tend to hear someone say about another that they are an eternal adolescent or that they behave as such, even after having passed the calendar age of being one. For example, there are studies that ensure that the age limit for adolescence is 25 years, when the body no longer has the possibility of experiencing any developmental change or continuing its growth.

Adolescence is also characterized by being the moment in life in which the person who goes through it begins to suffer a crisis as a result of that growth, realizes that he is halfway, that is, he is no longer a child and He does not want to be treated as such by his parents for example, but he is not an adult yet, so he still needs the advice and guidance of the elderly to take some important steps.

It is also recurrent that at this time there are some rebellious behaviors as a result of the last thing we were talking about: the parents want to set certain limits because the boy is not an adult yet, and he is reluctant to take them into account. Contact with a world more adult than child, added to body changes, begin to configure a series of attitudes different from those that the "child" had until now, and in that transition crisis between stages, the uncertainty, the excitement of the "New body" and the interaction with subjects that go through the same problems / changes, can lead to these rebellious attitudes that we referred to earlier.

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