Adolescents face challenges in finding their identity as they try different roles. They experience confusion over who they should be. The main tasks of adolescence include dealing with conflicts with parents, peers becoming more important, and mood changes. Adolescents are influenced both by their parents and peers, though studies show they cannot be influenced by both. Risky behaviors like smoking increase as friends' influence grows during adolescence. Around 39% of adolescents suffer from low self-esteem, which tends to drop during ages 9-13 and again from 18-23. When life becomes difficult, some adolescents make wrong choices that make them feel guilty.

1. The Challenges of
Adolescence !

2. What is the main task for
adolescents ?

3. Finding their
identity

4. So they try different roles
in life

8. Who should I be
now ?

9. Confused

10. Which leads
to even more
confusion

11. They face three main
problems !

12. Conflicts with parents

13. Peer become more important

14. Why do we even exist !
Mood changes

15. Risky Behavior

16. Smoking

17. While influencing, the
adolescents are influenced
by their parents or by their
friends. As the studies
showed they cannot be
influenced by both.

18. Who influences Adolescents more
Parents, or peers?

19. Best friend smoker

20. As adolescents
mature,
the effect of friends’
smoking shows a
tendency to increase

22. As a result it was found out that its very important to reduce
smoking is from the parents smokers to stop smoking and
have more conversation with their children

23. Adolescent and Self-esteem

24. 39% suffer from low self esteem

25. First stage is between
ages 9-13

26. The second drop is
between ages
18-23

27. When life gets harder..
and they cannot handle it

28. They make a wrong choice

29. They feel guilty that they
already messed up in life

31. And they spend more time on penance than
on recovery

32. ● Online text book.
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