Development during Adolescence

Adolescence is the phase of transition of a child into an adult. Just before adulthood, adolescents or teenagers become perplexing creatures for their parents. It seems that there is no right way to understand them, respond to them and approach them and everything we do seems to go wrong. Here we will discuss stages of development in adolescence broadly that may help us to understand the complex nature of teens. However, there are teenagers who like to act older than their age but that depends on the individual with his or her unique personality, interests, likes and dislikes.

Teenage or adolescence generally extends from 12 to 19 years of age and can be broadly categorized into three stages:

1. Early Adolescence (12 to 14 years),
2. Middle Adolescence (14 to 17 years),
3. Late Adolescence (17 to 19 years).