Chapter 8.Early and Mid-Adolescence
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Adolescence, divided here into early (ages 11–14 years), middle (ages 14–17), and late (ages 17–21, to be discussed in the following chapter), encompasses a phase of remarkable transformation, both internal and external. As the body undergoes the events of puberty and subsequent development to sexual maturity, the individual’s mind grapples with the meanings of these changes and undergoes its own remodeling. This is a time of exquisite self-consciousness, as well as a new capacity for self-reflection, urgent interest in novel experience leading to risky and impulsive behaviors, and major reworking of relationships with family, peer group, and intimate friends. From the vantage point of the stable, well-regulated late latency child, puberty and adolescence appear to be a wild adventure certain to produce a person as yet unknown with a life as yet unimaginable. It is a much anticipated, exciting, but also fearful time of life.
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