The author, Mary Pipher wrote the book Reviving Ophelia in order to share the emotional and physical experiences that girls have during adolescence. The first factor that this book reveals through her clients’ experiences is that adolescence is one of the most difficult times for development. Secondly, this transition is experienced very differently for boys and girls. Finally, the book stresses how gender roles, socialization, media, and peer relations all affect the mental health of adolescent girls. Although Dr. Pipher’s clients represent a wide variety of girls ranging from ages twelve to eighteen, they all experience the singular event of puberty. Thus, it seems that puberty becomes the trigger point for cultural pressure, gender roles,
