Adolescent sexuality

The social view on adolescent sexuality varies across cultures, societies, communities, and families. It is a controversial topic because some individuals perceive sexuality as an important development of a teenager’s gender and identity, while others are opposed to the sexual interaction of adolescence. In the book Not Under My Roof, Amy Schalet demonstrates that in the Netherlands, society provides information and support about sexuality to teenagers. The normalization of sexual behavior in the Netherlands has allowed teenagers to develop a greater control over their sexual desires. In contrast, America’s perspective of adolescent sexuality makes the experience unenjoyable to young adults. The affiliation of sexual behavior with reciprocal…

Emphasizing the word enjoyable, adolescents loves to live their life to the fullest through socializing with other people, hanging out more with their barkadas, being rebellious in nature and disobeying parents just to achieve an enjoyable state of life. An adolescent has a great deal to think about. This is the time of seeing other people in an objective way, of weighing oneself against others. Popularity in the school, how one looks compared to the others of the same age - all these can cause…

1. The major physical development changes for adolescence are puberty, the brain, and adolescent sexuality. Puberty changes relate with sexual maturation, height, weight, and hormonal changes. The brain changes in a bottom-up, top-down sequence with sensory, appetitive, sexual, sensation-seeking, and higher-level brain linkages. Adolescent sexuality changes relate with developing a sexual identity and sexual behaviors. 3. Maturing early or late can be a good or bad thing. Maturing early can be…

poor decisions regarding young men/women is nothing more than excusing bad behavior” (Kasey Ferris). Commonly, parents have big concerns about their teenage kids interacting with other teens alike and opposite sex, especially at their age, around 16 years of age average. This cuts both ways to one family with son and another with daughter, and the other way around. However, stereotypically, parents threatening or being judgmental another family’s son or daughter is not a good approach towards…

Identify the types of cultural attitudes towards adolescent sexuality and summarize cross- national variations in rates of sexual behavior in emerging adulthood. While homophobia remains a continual societal problem for many LGBT youth. The United States has changed its general perspective regarding this population. Many individuals have been given the cultural opportunity to experience the transmission of LGBT positive influence within American culture. Additionally, there are also laws which…

The article that I chose is called “Adolescent sexuality and the media”. It is based on how sexual content in the media have affected group of individuals. However, after reading the article I do agree with psychologists that sexual content on the media have affected numerous individuals. Psychologists have come with several researches to provide evidence. Media has impacted many people’s lives. I wasn’t skeptical about initially hearing the findings. Modern media is just like the…

The average adolescent is exposed to alcohol by their teenage years, which is typically by their 18’s and 20’s close to the legal drinking age limit which is 21 so not much effect is done to their development at the time. The adolescent who is exposed to alcohol at a young age starting at 13 is more likely to start drinking alcohol because they’re so exposed to it they think its okay. If their parents or friends drink then just like anything else, the adolescent will want to participate with…

1. Indicate causes of risky adolescent behavior (i.e. drug use, sexual behaviors, criminal activity) and discuss whether these operate independently or whether they interact. The prefrontal cortex is not fully evolved and it enables planning, emotional regulation and impulse control. However the limbic system has developed and it regulates intense fear and originates excitement (Berger, 2010). This means adolescents are ruled by their emotions, as the cognitive areas of the brain are still under…

generation adolescents when it comes to assimilation and depression in the United States. Leonardo, defines the first generation to be those who weren’t born in the United States, second generation to those that are citizens but have at least one parents that’s foreigner, and the third generation are those whose both parents and they themselves are citizens. Leonardo, uses the different generations to determine if there is a relationship between stress, intergenerational networks and support…

Unipolar depressive disorder in children and adolescents is a problem across the world that has become very common, but is often not recognized correctly (Thapar, Collishaw, Pine, & Thapar, 2012). Depression in adolescents is associated with a substantial risk of suicide, is the second leading cause of death in this age group and at least half of those who attempted suicide have described symptoms associated with depressive disorders at the time of death (Hawthorn, 2009). Depression in…