What are the threats to the well-being of adolescents? How can these threats be addressed by the family and other support systems available to the adolescent? Give appropriate examples from your cultural context. Psychologically, adolescence is the age when the individual integrates into adult society, the age where the child no longer feels below the level of his elders but equal, at least in terms of rights. Integration into adult society involves many emotional aspects, more or less linked to puberty. Early adolescence is generally referred to as “teens,” sometimes even “terrible teens.” Although older adolescents are, strictly speaking, "teenagers" until the age of twenty, the adolescent label has become popularly associated with the behavioral characteristics of younger adolescents and is rarely applied to older adolescents. aged. Instead, they are usually referred to as "young men" and "young women" - or even "youths" - indicating that society recognizes a maturity of behavior not found in the early years of life. 'adolescence. Although all periods of life are important, some are more important than others because of their immediate effects on attitudes and behaviors, while others are significant because of their long-term effects. Adolescence is one of the periods when both immediate effects and long-term effects are important. Some periods are important for their physical effects and others for their psychological effects. Adolescence is important for both. There may also be possible threats that may endanger the well-being of adolescents: • Peer pressure: Peers influence the adolescent's personality pattern in two ways: First, adolescents' self-conceptions are the reflection of ...... middle of paper. ....ts, the parent-adolescent relationship generally becomes more relaxed and the home a more pleasant place to live. Let's talk about relationships with siblings, grandparents and other family members. During early adolescence, these relationships with siblings, grandparents, and other family members are also conflicted. Older teens are now accepting of their siblings, whereas they often viewed nuisances when they were younger, in a calmer, more philosophical way. Because few adults separate early adolescence and late adolescence in their minds, they tend to remember all of adolescence in their minds, they tend to remember all of adolescence as of a generally unhappy age. Furthermore, the publicity given to teenage suicides in recent years, particularly among college students, has tended to reinforce the belief that it is an unfortunate time of life...