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    Adolescents experience stress in similar ways to adults through feelings of excitement, fear, anxiety, sadness, and anger. Their behavior may change in response to stress, such as withdrawing from others, lashing out, or seeking comfort. The five most common stressors for teens are issues at school due to differences in learning styles, high or unrealistic expectations from parents, too many after school activities scheduled by parents leaving no free time, stress being transferred from parents to teens, and issues with peers regarding pressure, friend problems, and fitting in. Additional stressors can include a lack of life skills, negative thinking patterns, a family history of depression or substance abuse, and trauma, medical issues, grief or loss.

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    Common Stressors and Challenges of Being Adolescent

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    Adolescents experience stress in similar ways to adults through feelings of excitement, fear, anxiety, sadness, and anger. Their behavior may change in response to stress, such as withdrawing from others, lashing out, or seeking comfort. The five most common stressors for teens are issues at school due to differences in learning styles, high or unrealistic expectations from parents, too many after school activities scheduled by parents leaving no free time, stress being transferred from parents to teens, and issues with peers regarding pressure, friend problems, and fitting in. Additional stressors can include a lack of life skills, negative thinking patterns, a family history of depression or substance abuse, and trauma, medical issues, grief or loss.

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    Adolescents experience stress in similar ways to adults through feelings of excitement, fear, anxiety, sadness, and anger. Their behavior may change in response to stress, such as withdrawing from others, lashing out, or seeking comfort. The five most common stressors for teens are issues at school due to differences in learning styles, high or unrealistic expectations from parents, too many after school activities scheduled by parents leaving no free time, stress being transferred from parents to teens, and issues with peers regarding pressure, friend problems, and fitting in. Additional stressors can include a lack of life skills, negative thinking patterns, a family history of depression or substance abuse, and trauma, medical issues, grief or loss.

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    Common Stressors and Challenges of Being Adolescent

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    Adolescents experience stress in similar ways to adults through feelings of excitement, fear, anxiety, sadness, and anger. Their behavior may change in response to stress, such as withdrawing from others, lashing out, or seeking comfort. The five most common stressors for teens are issues at school due to differences in learning styles, high or unrealistic expectations from parents, too many after school activities scheduled by parents leaving no free time, stress being transferred from parents to teens, and issues with peers regarding pressure, friend problems, and fitting in. Additional stressors can include a lack of life skills, negative thinking patterns, a family history of depression or substance abuse, and trauma, medical issues, grief or loss.

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    Common stressors and challenges of being Adolescent

    Adolescents react to stress in much the same ways adults do. Common reactions are
    excitement, fear, anxiety, sadness, and anger. The behavior of an adolescent who is
    stressed may change, but each adolescent reacts in a different way. Some adolescents
    withdraw from others, some lash out at others, and some actively seek the comfort of
    others.

    Five common stressors for teens include:

    1. School: People have different learning styles, interests, and strengths. Unfortunately,


    school is a standard structure that doesn’t take these differences into consideration.
    When the school doesn’t embrace the teens’ strengths, values or creativity they tend to
    be more stressed out.

    2. Parents: Parents and home environment can also add to teen stress.


    a. High expectations are a big stress and challenge for young people. Out of love,
    parents want teens to succeed in everything. While this idea is nice, it’s really an
    unrealistic expectation.
    b. After school activities are important but become a stressor if parents expect their
    teens to be involved in too many (even if it’s of their choosing). It’s important for teens to
    have some free, unscheduled time each week where they can do whatever they want.
    During this time she has the opportunity to relax as well as learn she deserves to have
    some free time. It’s a good habit to develop.
    c. Stressed parents can transfer their stress on to their teens. If you are frequently
    stressed, it’s reflected in how you treat your teen. Your unpredictable behavior may
    leave her worried and anxious since she doesn’t know what to expect next. Likewise, if
    you are emotionally unavailable for her, she may feel neglected and worthless. These
    feelings increase stress levels as she tries to get your attention, only to fail each time.
    3. Peer group: Peer pressure, not getting along with friends, and worrying about fitting
    in causes stress. The peer group is an important part of a teen’s life. If she senses the
    peer group is unreliable or disrespectful, it will increase her stress levels as she feels
    pressured to impress her social group.

    4. Lack of life skills: Skills such as organization and time management are important
    stress preventers. Likewise, an absence of these valuable skills can make life more
    hectic and chaotic. Teen’s habits are normally a reflection of how things are done in the
    household. As such, it’s unrealistic for parents to expect teens to do better than them.
    Any other expectations are only a stress producer.

    5. Personal thoughts: What kind of thinking does your teen engage in? It’s not too
    tough to find out. Pay attention to your teen’s actions and words as they’re a reflection
    of what’s going on inside her head. Instead of criticizing her, provide her with an
    alternative way of thinking.

    A family history of depression, substance use and / or suicide also increases a child’s
    risk for depression and suicide. Identified teen stressors include:

     Family stressors

     Peer / social stressors

     Self-esteem and sexual stressors

     Trauma / violence stressors

     Psychiatric stressors

     Medical illness

     Substance abuse 

     Grief / loss

     Depression / teen suicide

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