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Toward a Psycholgy of Positive Youth Development

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Toward a Psychology of Positive Youth Development

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The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development

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The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development

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Representações Sociais de Lazer e Tempo Livre de Adolescentes: Dualidades Sem Descompasso

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Representações Sociais de Lazer e Tempo Livre de Adolescentes: Dualidades Sem Descompasso

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As experiências ótimas na vida diária de adolescentes: implicações para um desenvolvimento positivo

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As experiências ótimas na vida diária de adolescentes: implicações para um desenvolvimento positivo

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Who am I Online? Understanding the Meaning of Online Contexts for Identity Development

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Positive and Negative Emotion Regulation in Adolescence: Links to Anxiety and Depression

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Positive and Negative Emotion Regulation in Adolescence: Links to Anxiety and Depression

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Rewiring juvenile justice: the intersection of developmental neuroscience and legal policy

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Investing in adolescents builds strong economies, inclusive communities and vibrant societies.

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Adolescence is the developmental transition to adulthood that includes rapid changes in the brain and body, often at different rates and is a time for healthy exploration of identity and learning independence. It can also be a stressful or challenging for teens because of these rapid changes.

Although every adult has gone through puberty and has personal experience with this transition, it is still important to understand the different types of changes occurring physically and psychologically during adolescence. The following overview covers the major types of development, the related changes, and common challenges that may result.

These TAG Talks address different topics related to adolescent development and learning more about what is most helpful to youth experiencing this transition:

The Power of the Adolescent Brain: This video uses research to shine a light on adolescent brain development and explores what researchers have discovered about adolescent brain development, functioning, and capacity and provides practical suggestions for practitioners and families with adolescents.

The Changing Transition to Adulthood: This video is about the transition to adulthood today, how it has changed over time, what skills and capacities are helpful for youth, and the roles of families, education, and employment in the process.

Adolescent-Centered Healthcare - The Mount Sinai Model: This video is about the growing understanding that adolescents and young adults need healthcare that is geared specifically to their needs and is distinct from services provided to adults or young children.

Adolescent Substance Use, Addiction, and Treatment: This video is about addressing substance use and addiction in adolescents and young adults and the most effective approaches to treating addiction, including opioid addiction.

The Crisis of Connection for Adolescent Boys: This video explores the crisis of connection, its impact on the health and well-being of adolescent boys, and the implications for supporting teens.

Physical Development
During adolescence the body usually experiences a growth spurt, which is a time of very rapid growth in height and weight. Puberty, which also happens during adolescence, is the time period of maturation where sexual organs mature. Rapid changes in the body can be exciting, scary, and/or confusing. Some adolescents may mature early while others experience late maturation, both of which can cause added stress of standing out as different. This can be particularly distressing because adolescence is the peak developmental window for wanting to fit in with peers.
Nutrition and Physical Fitness
The rapid physical development during adolescence requires an increased number of calories for girls and boys. A challenge during this time is making sure that teens are consuming a sufficient balance of appropriate foods. Two extreme nutritional issues during adolescence are obesity and eating disorders, both of which can have negative physical and psychological effects on youth.

The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans recommends that children and adolescents ages six to 17 years do 60 minutes or more of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily. A lack of exercise contributes to adolescent obesity, so learning about physical activity and promoting healthy behaviors is important in helping support healthy adolescent development. Additionally, the availability of fast foods that provide large portions of high-calorie, low-nutritional value food, also contributes to adolescent obesity. Many neighborhoods also have little to no access to healthy food, also known as food deserts.

The most well-known eating disorders are anorexia-nervosa (a dangerous psychological disorder that causes a person to eat very little and often exercise excessively), and bulimia-nervosa (characterized by binge-eating a lot of food and then purging this food through vomiting or laxatives). While adolescent females are more than twice as likely to experience an eating disorder than males, it is becoming a more prevalent issues among adolescent males.

Getting enough sleep during adolescence is crucial for optimal physical and cognitive development. In general, adolescents need an average of nine hours of sleep every night to feel rested. This is also when adolescents' internal clocks shift making them want to go to bed later and sleep in later in the morning. On top of this, increasing academic and social demands (e.g., constant availability of social media through smart phones) can cause teens to go to bed later and not be able to meet these demands. Combined, this can lead to sleep deprivation, which can result in lower grades, depressive symptoms, and difficulty with mood regulation. The most dangerous consequence is car accidents due to drowsy driving, making driver safety an important youth topic.
Cognitive Development
Adolescence is known for being a time for teens to assert their independence from family and begin to make decisions on their own. This is largely due to developmental changes in the brain that create significant advances in cognitive abilities. What is occurring during this time is large numbers of neurons are growing rapidly and there is an increase in interconnectedness between neurons, which allows for more complex and sophisticated thinking.

What can make things notoriously volatile during adolescence is that different parts of the brain are making these changes at different times. The frontal lobe that controls "executive functions" (i.e., considering long-term consequences, controlling impulses) is one of the last parts of the brain to fully mature, which in some individuals does not occur until well into their 20s. This can cause lapses in judgement, increases in risk-taking behaviors, and mood swings. Figure 1 depicts a neuro imaging scan of brains at different ages and shows how the blue/purple areas (i.e., more fully-mature areas) gradually encompass most of brain, but not until 20 years old.
Figure 1: Neuro imaging scan of brains at different ages Image Source: National Institute of Mental Health; Paul Thompson, Ph.D., UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging Psychosocial Development
Abstract reasoning and adolescent rebellion are typical types of adolescent behavior. Although these behaviors can create challenges for youth, their family, and other adults who work with them, they are a normal part of psychosocial development. This area of development focuses on identity and asking the important question, "Who am I?"

During this time, adolescents have more complex thinking abilities and can start to see how they are different from others and from their family. Issues around self-esteem are common as they begin to differentiate themselves from others while also experiencing physical changes in their body. Self-esteem can be a complex experience as some adolescents may have high self-esteem in their family life but low self-esteem among their peers, or in their academic performance.

This is also a time for adolescents to establish their autonomy while trying different roles to figure out their identity. The quick advances in the brain will also help adolescents to become future-oriented and begin to be able to plan for their future.

Resources

The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth
This report examines the neurobiological and socio-behavioral science of adolescent development and outlines how this knowledge can be applied, both to promote adolescent well-being, resilience, and development, and to rectify structural barriers and inequalities in opportunity, enabling all adolescents to flourish. The report focuses on leveraging the developmental opportunities to harness the promise of adolescence-rather than focusing myopically on containing its risks. In addition to discussing adolescent development and the impact of inequality and injustice, accompanying resources include a communication toolkit, commissioned papers, and a video series in English and Spanish with recommendations for the education, justice, child welfare, and health care systems.

Adolescent Development Explained
This webpage from the Office of Population Affairs examines the major developmental changes that occur in adolescence and provides suggestions on how parents and caring adults can support young people as they navigate through this critical period.

Youth Risk Behavior Survey: Data Summary and Trends Report 2007-2017
This report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) provides data summary and trend information on varying topics, including sexual behavior, high-risk substance use, violence victimization, mental health and suicide, and minority youth.

Bullying and Pediatricians
This fact sheet from StopBullying.gov explains how pediatricians and healthcare providers are important allies to help determine if a child is being bullied. They can alert parents to the signs of bullying and how it may impact a child's health, and can provide resources for intervention, relief, and healing.

Integrated Healthcare
This research summary from StopBullying.gov describes how psychosocial matters, including bullying, can be addressed during adolescent well-care visits, annual school physicals, sports physicals, and acute care.

Physical Activity Guidelines for School-Aged Children and Adolescents
This second edition of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services, provides guidelines for physical activity for school-aged children and adolescents.

National Youth Sports Strategy
This webpage provides details on the National Youth Sports Strategy, which is an essential resource for policymakers and key decision-makers in youth sports. It aims to unite U.S. youth sports culture around a shared vision: that one day, all young people will have the opportunity, motivation, and access to play sports - regardless of their race, ethnicity, sex, ability, or ZIP code.

Eating Disorders
This health topic page from the National Institute of Mental Health provides comprehensive information on eating disorders, including risk factors, types of treatment, and other resources.

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Adolescence is the developmental transition to adulthood that includes rapid changes in the brain and body, often at different rates and is a time for healthy exploration of identity and learning independence. It can also be a stressful or challenging for teens because of these rapid changes.

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Adolescence - Coming of age: the emerging science of adolescence

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Adolescence - Coming of age: the emerging science of adolescence

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EARLY 10-15 years

MIDDLE 14-17 years

LATE 16-19 years

Growth of body

Secondary sexual characteristics advance

Growth slows down

Has reached approximately 95% of adult growth

Growth of brain (Prefrontal cortex)

Cognition (ability to get knowledge through different ways of thinking)

Thinking can be more abstract (theoretical) but goes back to concrete thinking under stress

Better understands results of own actions

Very self-absorbed

Most thinking is now abstract

Plans for the future

Understands how choices and decisions now have an affect on the future

Psychological and social

Creates their body image

Thinks a lot about impractical or impossible dreams

Feels very powerful

Experiments with sex, drugs, friends, risks

Plans and follows long term goals

Usually comfortable with own body image

Understands right from wrong (morally and ethically)

Family

Argues with people in authority

Moving from a child-parent/guardian relationship to a more equal adult-adult relationship

Peer group

Important for their development

Intense friendships with same sex

Contact with opposite sex in groups

Source: Participants manual: IMAI one-day or orientation on adolescents living with HIV (World Health Organization, 2010).

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There are nearly 1.2 billion adolescents (10-19 years old) worldwide. In some countries, adolescents make up as much as a quarter of the population and the number of adolescents is expected to rise through 2050, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where close to 90% of 10- to 19-year-olds live.

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Anorexia e Bulimia, um risco na adolescência

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Anorexia e Bulimia, um risco na adolescência

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Anorexia e Bulimia, um risco na adolescência

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A anorexia ou doença de distúrbio alimentar afeta cada vez mais adolescentes. Quais os sintomas e como os pais podem ajudar.

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Autoestima baixa na adolescência: por que o problema deve ser tratado como uma prioridade?

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Sociedade Brasileira de Inteligência Emocional

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Blog: Autoestima baixa na adolescência: por que o problema deve ser tratado com uma prioridade? | Sociedade Brasileira de Inteligência Emocional

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Você tem um filho(a) adolescente e está percebendo que a sua autoestima está baixa? Clique aqui e veja como ajudá-lo a cuidar de suas emoções.

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Neurociência: entenda como funciona o cérebro do adolescente

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Neurociência: entenda como funciona o cérebro do adolescente

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Vulnerabilidade, ajustes, emoções intensas, reatividade, hipersensibilidade emocional, busca incessante por novas emoções, comportamento impulsivo e procura contínua por uma identidade - essas são algumas experiências que compõem a vida de um adolescente. Mas afinal, o que gera toda essa sucessão de ondas emocionais?

Acreditava-se, até algumas décadas atrás, que o desenvolvimento do cérebro era concluído no fim da infância. No entanto, sabe-se hoje, que o processo de desenvolvimento do cérebro humano vai até os 25 anos aproximadamente.

Afinal, como funciona o cérebro do adolescente?

Desta forma, o período da adolescência é de extrema importância na reorganização neural e nas mudanças que afetam drasticamente a formação de nossa identidade. Mas que partes do cérebro estão envolvidas nas mudanças enfrentadas na adolescência? Duas áreas merecem um estudo mais detalhado: o sistema límbico e o córtex pré-frontal.

O sistema límbico é a estrutura mais importante para a memória (hipocampo) e está próximo à amígdala, uma estrutura que ajuda a produzir emoções. Essa relação anatômica garante que as experiências carregadas de emoção sejam mais facilmente lembradas que os eventos neutros.

Já o córtex pré-frontal, última camada do cérebro a amadurecer, é a área responsável pelo pensamento crítico, tomada de decisão, autocontrole, planejamento, atenção, organização, controle de emoção, de riscos e impulsos, automonitorização, empatia e resolução de problemas.

Na adolescência, como o córtex pré-frontal ainda está em desenvolvimento, os jovens fazem uso da amígdala para tomar decisões e resolver problemas. Vale lembrar que a amígdala está associada a emoções, impulsos, agressividade e comportamento instintivo.

Para completar esse caleidoscópio de emoções, o cérebro adolescente contém níveis mais baixos de serotonina e dopamina, neurotransmissores que proporcionam a sensação de prazer e bem-estar. Isso pode gerar o aumento da agressão, juntamente com níveis mais altos de testosterona, contribuindo para explosões de raiva e comportamento impulsivo. Os lobos frontais do cérebro, por sua vez, não estão totalmente desenvolvidos nesses anos, o que limita a função cerebral na resolução de problemas, na regulação emocional e no foco.

Os estudos de neurociência nos ajudam a responder algumas perguntas que fazemos ao lidarmos com adolescentes. Listamos algumas dessas indagações:

Por que a organização não é uma prioridade para a maioria dos adolescentes?

O fato é que a organização exige um alto nível de controle cognitivo e a maneira como o cérebro adolescente está conectado, tendo pouco acesso aos lobos frontais, dificulta o processo de planejamento. Levado pelas emoções, via sistema límbico, o adolescente busca novas aventuras, não tendo foco na organização.

Por que os adolescentes não se desgrudam dos seus celulares, nem mesmo na hora das refeições ou durante as aulas?

O cérebro adolescente está constantemente buscando estímulos e por ainda não terem pleno acesso ao córtex pré-frontal, não conseguem enviar para si mesmos as mensagens de "chega por hoje", "preciso me concentrar", "preciso prestar mais atenção à aula". Sendo assim, ainda precisam da ajuda de pessoas mais experientes para lhes mostrar comportamentos que sejam mais produtivos.

Por que muitas vezes nos sentimos cada vez mais distantes dos adolescentes? Por que eles não falam conosco adequadamente?

A adolescência é uma era de autodescoberta e busca por novidades, então, é natural que eles comecem a cortar laços. Como funciona o cérebro do adolescente?, você pode se perguntar. Bem, os adolescentes precisam se tornar independentes, mas vivemos em um mundo muito complexo, e nenhuma outra geração na história teve tanta exposição aos inputs que surgem quando estão online. Desta forma, nós, pais e professores precisamos estar vigilantes e permanecer conectados a eles.

Que problemas mentais são manifestados na adolescência?

Transtorno de ansiedade e depressão são comuns nessa fase. O transtorno bipolar e a esquizofrenia geralmente surgem no final da adolescência e início dos 20 anos, visto que precisamos dos lobos frontais para manifestar tais distúrbios.

Adolescentes que se isolam socialmente, ganham ou perdem muito peso e param de cuidar de si mesmos, precisam de uma atenção especial da família e da escola. Ironicamente, nesta idade, se eles têm uma doença mental emergente, nem todos os seus pares estão equipados para serem compreensivos como os adultos, já que muitos não têm empatia, sintoma mais associado ao córtex pré-frontal.

Muitas pessoas pensam que a capacidade para o desempenho acadêmico é definida desde muito cedo, porém isso pode mudar de forma dramática durante a adolescência. Sendo assim, a forma como se trabalha na escola, colocando o aluno no centro do processo de aprendizagem, e o quanto de atenção se recebe nesse período fazem uma grande diferença na resposta do adolescente frente ao desempenho acadêmico.

A maneira como o adolescente vê o mundo é consequência de um cérebro que está em plena transformação, que segue um cronograma. Tais mudanças os levam a ter mais autoconsciência, a estarem dispostos a correr mais riscos e assumir comportamentos motivados pelos colegas.

Um ponto importante que pais e professores precisam considerar é que o comportamento do adolescente não é simplesmente o resultado de decisões ou atitudes, é o produto de uma fase de mudanças neurais intensas e inevitáveis. Justamente isso justifica um pouco como funciona o cérebro do adolescente, cabendo, portanto, estarmos cientes desse processo e auxiliar os adolescentes a atravessar essa onda de emoções de forma saudável e construtiva.

Andreia Fernandes

Mestre em Educação (UCP), especialista em Neurociência (UFRJ) e graduada em Comunicação Social (UFRJ), Andreia é Coordenadora Acadêmica no Edify Education.

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Vulnerabilidade, ajustes, emoções intensas, reatividade, hipersensibilidade emocional, busca incessante por novas emoções, comportamento impulsivo e procura contínua por uma identidade - essas são algumas experiências que compõem a vida de um adolescente. Mas afinal, o que gera toda essa sucessão de ondas emocionais?

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Early psychopathological signs in bulimia nervosa. A retrospective comparison of the period of puberty in bulimic and control girls

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Early psychopathological signs in bulimia nervosa. A retrospective comparison of the period of puberty in bulimic and control girls

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Development of the self-concept during adolescence

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Development of the self-concept during adolescence

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