Adolescence is the social and psychological transition period between the childhood and adulthood or it can also be define as the transitional phase of human growth and development where a juvenile individual matures to an adult. This transitional development engrosses the biological such as pubertal, psychological, and social, changes among which the biological changes are the simplest to measure independently. Adolescence is identified to consist of dramatic transformations in the growth and development of the body, together with personnel developments in academic career and psychology. The age of the adolescence is interpreted differently by different culture. According to WHO (THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION), the period of 10 to 19 years whereas in United States adolescence is considered the stage form 13 to 19 which generally regarded as the teenage. The fundamental for studying the adolescence is not the age group but the developmental changes. Adolescence is one of the most important stages in life where an individual enters the more responsive and matured adulthood crossing the childhood stage. Adolescence is also defined as the transition phase of childhood and adulthood and this stage is accompanied by several physiological, sexual, behavioral, emotional and psychological changes. Depressions, anxiety, restlessness and several other obsessions are reasonably observable during adolescence. Some psychologist has expresses significantly as the stage of “stress and storm in an individuals life In the commencement of adolescence, the individual generally complete basic school education and enters the secondary stage like middle or high school.

The physical changes observed in adolescents are regarded as the puberty where the female Adolescent experiences the onset of   menstruation; development of mammary glands and several secondary sexual organs and they turn to the sage of sexual maturity. In case of the male adolescent seminal emission began, several bodily developmental changes like growth of pubic hair, voice changes etc. during this stage the individuals are very curious about the opposite sexes and sexual craze is very highly developed at this stage which may lead to several undesirable social problems. It is therefore essential to educate the adolescents giving the correct guidance and care. Adolescents are furthermore the socially conscious individuals and they can not tolerate any injustice summoned to them thus the cases of juvenile delinquency is highly prone during adolescence. Thus the adolescence stage needs suitable guidance and the role of the matured members of the society mainly the parents and teachers should provide best care and sexual knowledge must be cleared to them.

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