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Adolescence is a period of major change. Ushered in by the hormonal activity associated with the growth spurt of puberty and by changing environmental expectations, it is a stage of rapid though uneven biological, psychological, and social development. The rate at which individuals progress through adolescence varies widely. Psychological development may lag behind physical development by years. For example, a youth of sixteen may leave home, establish himself on his own, and be fully self-supporting, while a nineteen-year-old student may remain much more dependent economically and emotionally on his family. There does exist within this stage, however, an orderly sequence of physiological and psychological developments through which different adolescents pass in their own time and at their own rate.
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Golombek, H., Wilkes, J., Froese, A.P. (1977). The Developmental Challenges of Adolescence. In: Steinhauer, P.D., Rae-Grant, Q. (eds) Psychological Problems of the Child and His Family. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81464-0_2
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