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Content: For the adolescent, this period is a
dramatic challenge, one requiring adjustment to changes in the self, in the family, and in
the peer group. In contemporary society, adolescents experience institutional changes as
well. Among young adolescents, there is a change in school setting, typically involving a
transition from elementary school to either junior high school or middle school; and in
late adolescence there is a transition from high school to the worlds of work, university,
or childrearing. Understandably, then, for both adolescents and their parents, adolescence is a time
of excitement and of anxiety; of happiness and of troubles; of discovery and of
bewilderment; and of breaks with the past and yet of links with the future. Adolescence
can be, then, a confusing time--for the adolescent experiencing this phase of life; for the
parents who are nurturing the adolescent during his or her progression through this
period;