Teen Stress
TEEENAGAE STRESS & DEPRESSSION
An Overview of Teenage Stress and Depression: Causes and Effects
The number and rate of teenagers or adolescents that deal with clinical levels of stress and/or depression are exceedingly high. Studies have shown that self-efficacy and perceived stress can be related to depression and can come from a range of sources in the modern age. This analysis will provide an overview of stress and depression during adolescent development and consider some of the causes and consequences that these demographics will have to bear by living with this issue. This issue is important because it largely goes unnoticed in the demographic and is often believed to just be a stage in development. However, research indicates that the issue could be far more severe and cause more damage to the individuals than previously believed.
Literature Review
Depression during adolescence has been shown to be highly prevalent and associated with life stressors. Studies found that depressed children were more likely to have had significant stresses in the previous year prior to depression compared to non-depressed children It has been estimated that between 25% and 30% of U.S. students suffer from adverse effects of examination stress. Furthermore, it is assumed that 10 million school students underachieve because of anxiety-related performance impairments (Ghofranipour, Saffari, Mahmoudi, & Montazeri, 2013). This represents an enormous population of children that are being weighed down by the effects of anxiety and depression. Thus the extent of the issue has tangible ramifications for all of society.
Some argue that the problems related to stress and depression among the teenage group are developmental. One author argues that it is at least partially due to a natural process and argues that storm and stress is a vestigial developmental framework, and proposes a more comprehensive approach to understanding adolescent- typical changes based on six premises: (1) The biological changes of adolescence are inevitable and ubiquitous;...
Adolescents with poor problem-solving skills are at greater risk of suicide, according to an article in the Journal of Clinical Psychology (Grover, et al., 2009). The authors concentrate on the problem of "chronic stress" in adolescents, saying it involves "deprivation or disadvantage" that is ongoing and those dynamics create a "continuous stream of threats and challenges" for the adolescent. The therapy in this research? Counselors, therapists, parents and teachers all
Stress is an unavoidable fact of life, yet, what precisely is stress? It is essentially one of those things that we all have but that we all have difficulty defining and explaining. The one unarguable fact is that we all have it in our lives and, without it, our lives would be much different. If fact, the only way that one's life can be entirely stress free is upon death.
This large number was selected to ensure that the power of statistical tests used in the study is of sufficient power to draw valid conclusions. It is expected that given the sensitive nature of the subject, there will be large numbers of selected participants who will decide not to participate, will drop out, or whose parents will not sign the consent form. All participants selected will be taken from
Added stress can cause the already violent tendency of the child to harm someone accidently or can cause future emotional and psychological damage to the child. Some children can develop anti-social tendencies leading to criminal behavior and some just withdraw from society as a whole. The genital stage is the final stage of development and the individual is involved in the creation and enhancement of their life. The attraction to
In addition, factors that cause stress such as divorce or death increase the likelihood that a teenager will have aggressive tendencies (Peterson and Sheldon 2006). Additionally maternal depression, substance abuse or maternal anxiety can all lead to aggressive behaviors in teenagers (Peterson and Sheldon 2006). According to Peterson and Sheldon (2006) teenage aggression can also be linked to neuropsychiatric disorders. In fact the authors asserts that "Persistent aggressive behavior is a
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