Adolescence - Psychology

We all know how difficult it is to cope with a child in adolescence. Both boys and girls are simply uncontrollable, do not react to remarks and are extremely offended by any reasons. Although mom and dad are experiencing a difficult period at this time, it should be understood that it is the most difficult moment for the child himself, because he can not control his emotions and some actions. In this article, we will tell you which features are inherent in adolescence in terms of psychology.

The crisis of adolescence in psychology

Each child, as he grows up, faces a variety of physical and personal changes. Starting from about 11 years old, boys and girls have a lot of psychological complexes, which lead to the development of a severe crisis.

The reason for such complexes lies in the uneven maturation in different directions. Boys and girls during this period are extremely unstable emotionally, and any careless and wrong actions on the part of parents, friends or just strangers can lead to the development of severe depression.

From the point of view of psychology, the most significant difficulties that a child must overcome in adolescence are the following:

• Extraordinary sensitivity to how other people evaluate a teenager's appearance;
• extreme arrogance, conviction that you can cope absolutely with any task without outside help;
• sharp and categorical judgments against surrounding people;
• all kinds of "extremes" - patience and attentiveness along with callousness and indifference, incredible shyness combined with insolence and cheekiness and so on;
• complete denial of the authority of parents and other adult people;
• creation of idols and deification of unfamiliar personalities, for example, "stars" of show business.

Differences in the psychology of adolescence in boys and girls

From the point of view of age psychology, the younger and older adolescence for children of both sexes is equally difficult. However, there are certain differences that you should pay attention to when talking to your child, for example:

• boys listen more attentively to the instructions of the elders than the girls. If the young men in most cases begin to follow older children, the girls are sure only in their own right;
• girls are more sensitive to changes in their appearance and negative evaluation of others;
• boys in adolescence often display unique abilities, which they are trying their best to demonstrate to others. Girls, on the contrary, lose such abilities, if at an early age they had a place to be.

Despite the fact that most parents during the puberty period of their offspring are simply lost and do not know how to behave, one should remain calm in all situations and try not to put pressure on the child. Remember that your son or daughter is much harder than you, because he will have an incredibly difficult and long period that you just need to survive.

As a rule, at the age of 16-17 the crisis begins to decline, and most of the difficulties recede. Have patience, and after a while you will notice that it's much easier to communicate with your grown-up scion.