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The Psychology of the Adolescent

"A discussion of the problems of adolescence should be useful for various reasons. In the first place, it may be helpful to adolescents themselves. The intelligent youth who is actually in the midst of the adjustments here considered may profit from the definite, impersonal formulation of the persistent problems of youth everywhere. For the guardians of youth, especially for parents and teachers, such a book should be of use. To have been an adolescent years ago is not necessarily, or even probably, to remember what an adolescent is like. Parents and teachers need to keep before themselves the persistent, universal problems of adolescence, in order that they may preserve an adequate sense of the reality and seriousness of those problems. Above all, in order to have an impersonal guide to the revision of their own habits of acting toward the changing child, parents and teachers require a verbal formulation of the chief facts about those ambiguous years of life, when the girl or boy is neither child nor adult, but a mixture of both. It is the idea of the author that most service of all may be rendered by such verbal formulation to those parents whose children are still in infancy or early childhood. Likewise, it may well be that it is the teacher of the young child who should most thoughtfully consider the adolescent. It should be understood that much of our lore about adolescence rests at present upon the mere opinions of professional observers. The volume here presented is offered as a formulation of the universal problems of the adolescent, as they appear at present, under conditions of contemporary life"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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