The Psychological World of the Teen-Ager [antikvár]

PrefaceWho are the youth of today? How do adolescents react to theeveryday events of their lives? What are the future goals of a high-school student? It is taken for granted that in as large and diversea country as the United States, youth will not be represented by asingle or even a number of patterns of development. There will bedifferent types of adolescents whose paths through the high-schoolyears, though multidetermined, will take many different forms. Itis crucial that we become aware of all types of teen-agers, andrealize that there are many routes from childhood to adulthood.We have chosen to work with a group of adolescents because ofour interest in the psychology of the teen-ager. It is in high schoolthat the student begins to separate from his parents and develophis own identity. The high-school years have always been knownfor their influence on the molding of the future personality of thehuman being. It is during these years that the adolescent acquiresvalues of his own and begins the long process of finding himself.Psychiatrists, as well as other social and behavioral scientists,have concentrated on studying the extremes. Individuals showinghigh degrees of pathology, disturbance, and deviancy have been