Storm And Stress Approach: A Psychological Analysis

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Taking historical views in conjunction with researches, the nucleus of the Storm and Stress approach is the idea that adolescence is a more difficult period of life than others for adolescents and people around them. The 3 domains of this approach were identified by Arnett (1999) as developmental stages marked by difficulty especially at risk-taking, emotional trouble, and parent-child conflicts. This essay focuses on how two theorists, Hall (1905) and his theory of recapitulation, Erikson ()and Problem Behaviour theory (PBT) Jessor (1998) focus on the idea of Storm and Stress as suggested by Hall. First of all, these theories identify differently the length of adolescence. Hall proposes it lasts through the early twenties when Ericson - 12-18 …show more content…

In adolescence conflicts increase, especially with parents and adolescents show tendency for rebellion and resisting adult authority. Hall explained conflicts with parents due to human evolutionary history and the search for independence when self-feelings getting increased and all degrees of egoism and forms of self-affirmation occur. Erikson pointed that during this period adolescents trying to establish personal identity through researching oneself and with rapid social changes in society they rely more on their peers to have a feeling of belonging which can bring conflict of interests of what they expect from their parents and vice versa. PBT considers that the core features of adolescence is impulsivity, risk taking, struggle with finding personal identity, errors of thinking caused be peer culture and rebellion towards authority including parents is coupled with the disturbance in psychological adjustment including clash with norms and expectations. According to contemporary research family life involves constant management of tension between adults and adolescents and regarding household conflicts the frequency of most conflict issues include cleaning up bedroom (42.2%), taking care of things (33.9%), and grades in school …show more content…

Deep down it is frightening for adolescents so they are testing themselves to see how much they can handle on their own.
PBT view adolescence as a high risk period where problem behaviours are related and that any single problem behaviour, such as illicit drug abuse, gang involvement, or criminal activities, must be viewed within the complex system of both adaptive and problem behaviour, personality, and perceived environment http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/50440_ch_1.pdf Contemporary researches suggest that unlike conflict with parents or mood disruption, rates of risk behaviour higher in late adolescence. Report presenting national-level data from the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) for admission of illegal drugs claims that during 2000-2010 mails represented 68-70% of TEDS admissions age 12 and over when the proportion of admission aged 18-29 years 28-35% and 12-17 years stable at

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