What are the risks associated with smoking, alcohol use, and drug use in adolescence? What do adolescents typically view as the risks? According to the most recent national survey of U.S. high school students, by tenth grade, 33 percent of U.S. adolescents have tried smoking, 58 percent drinking, and 37 percent at least had tried one illegal drug (Berk, 2014, p. 302). Most teengaers who experiment with these substances become addicted. Drug use ruins their perceptions and thought process in their mind. Abusing these substances can lead to permanent injury or even death. As teens start to take drugs regularly, it starts to interfere with their everyday lives and responsibilities, losing focus on what they are doing and their goals in life.
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Role Confusion. Usually when a child finds one’s identity, or one’s major personality achievement, which is a crucial step in becoming a productive adult, it involves defining oneself, one’s values, and the direction the child wants to pursue further (Berk, 2014, p. 318). Even though teengaers may go through an identity crises, or a period of a distress while they experiment to find the set values and goals they decide on for themselves, this “soul-searching” allows them to use their findings of characteristics that define them. They will then use these to establish a sense of a mature identity for themselves and are able to have a sense of being their own person and becoming independent. They no longer see their parents as these perfect beings when they were younger. As they idealize their parents, they see them as just people like them who may have differing views (Berk, 2014, p. 329), that’s why they set to obtain autonomy since they are able to make their own decisions and take care of themselves, no longer following parents all the time as they did when they were younger kids. They are able to argue their case with more reasoning and information to back them up, allowing them to feel freedom and nondependent …show more content…
His father, who is an authoritarian parent, suffocates him with his strict and controlling parenting style, and his mother, who is uninvolved, completely is unreliable for her son. Frank, especially in his adolescent years, needs his parents to be involved positively in his life more than ever. He is in the stage of his life where he is trying to find his identity, and if they continue with these inefficient and dangerous parenting styles towards their son, he will have a problem finding himself with no values. Not only does Frank need his parents’ social support, but most importantly, he needs their trust, encouragement, and become not just his parents but his friends who will care and listen to him, his feelings, and his
Role Confusion. Usually when a child finds one’s identity, or one’s major personality achievement, which is a crucial step in becoming a productive adult, it involves defining oneself, one’s values, and the direction the child wants to pursue further (Berk, 2014, p. 318). Even though teengaers may go through an identity crises, or a period of a distress while they experiment to find the set values and goals they decide on for themselves, this “soul-searching” allows them to use their findings of characteristics that define them. They will then use these to establish a sense of a mature identity for themselves and are able to have a sense of being their own person and becoming independent. They no longer see their parents as these perfect beings when they were younger. As they idealize their parents, they see them as just people like them who may have differing views (Berk, 2014, p. 329), that’s why they set to obtain autonomy since they are able to make their own decisions and take care of themselves, no longer following parents all the time as they did when they were younger kids. They are able to argue their case with more reasoning and information to back them up, allowing them to feel freedom and nondependent …show more content…
His father, who is an authoritarian parent, suffocates him with his strict and controlling parenting style, and his mother, who is uninvolved, completely is unreliable for her son. Frank, especially in his adolescent years, needs his parents to be involved positively in his life more than ever. He is in the stage of his life where he is trying to find his identity, and if they continue with these inefficient and dangerous parenting styles towards their son, he will have a problem finding himself with no values. Not only does Frank need his parents’ social support, but most importantly, he needs their trust, encouragement, and become not just his parents but his friends who will care and listen to him, his feelings, and his