adolescence BEHAVIORAL TRANSITION
Adolescence to Adulthood
Adolescence is the period of transformation and teens undergo several physical and intellectual developments. This period can be confusing and frustrating and for this reason there are many possibilities of unexpected behaviors may occur. It is often an extreme form of common typical behaviors causing more severe, long-term consequences including damaging important relationships, getting into physical or emotional harm.
Apart from noticeable physiological and behavioral changes teenagers experience, confusion can still prevail regarding subject selection because they are navigating Erikson’s stage of identity versus role confusion. During this behavioral & intellectual transformational period, neurobiological changes in faculties of mind is not fully known, as a result uncertainty is compounded by the fact that adolescents are still developing formal operational thought and metacognition, meaning they can stimulate hypothetical futures and understand complex possibilities but often lack the life experience to accurately assess their own abilities or long-term interests.
RGB Analyzes by making the genetic report as gap analyzes instrument by measuring the shift in Faculties of Mind and fluid / crystalized intelligence formation, to provide natural flow in professional task performance apart from genetic behavioral approach connecting to personal and social environment.
Teen / Adolescence Behaviors
- Spending more time with friends and less time with family
- Spending more time in their own room alone
- Trying out different personal styles, different hobbies or shifting interests
- Sudden change in peer group or opposite gender attraction
- Extra focus on how they look and others look
- Overeating or restricting food or over conscious about self-appearance
- Developing more independence from parents and developing secretiveness
- Not wanting to share what’s going on in their lives
- Rejecting things, they once enjoyed or cared about childhood
- Displaying Mood swings or arguing over silly matters
- Often try to run away from home or refusing to school skipping classes
- Displaying of temper outbursts that become violent
- Being moody, anxious or withdrawn beyond what seems normal or seem sad
- Self-harming or talking about suicide
Cognitive Development in Adolescence
Cognitive development in adolescence marks critical transition from concrete thinking to formal operational thinking, enabling teens to engage in abstract reasoning, hypothetical problem-solving and metacognition. This period is vulnerable to the inability to effectively coordinate emotional and cognitive processes increases the risk for onset of depression, anxiety, conduct disorders and externalizing behavior problems. This is also over shadowed by social sensitivity, and peer influences leading to increased conformity, driven by a desire for peer acceptance and novelty, emotional volatility, reckless driving, and the potential for risky group behaviors often without understanding the consequences.
Behaviors during child and adolescent period are overwhelming. These behavior patterns are not necessarily indicative of poor behavior & cognitive skills but rather reflect a critical developmental window where brain is reorganizing to integrate emotion & cognition. Plasticity is not inherently classified as disorders though carries risks, but a process of brain’s high plasticity offering significant potential for growth, learning & development. It is thus crucial to streamline the behavior for a better personality.
Parental Belief
Family is the first environment where behavioral and intellectual maturity development happens. Children copy some of the external environment stimulations (Nurture) in terms of belief system, values, norms constructed by each parent, built upon by each generation within various cultural contexts. The copying preference of such external stimulations can be affected due to adolescent-rearing beliefs, when getting contradicted with Perceptual Distortions, predominant Episodic Memory, conformity issues, cognitive-affective syndrome and other unknown or existing behavioral issues.
Parental or family belief and perceptions in emotional, social and behavioral attitudes can augment child’s perceptual dissonance that may translate into perceptual distortions during adolescence timeline of the child.
RGB Analyzes therefore assesses the Genetic Perceptual and emotional traits of the child possibility for better results with parental Genetic Behavior assessment and it can be compared for understanding and required modification through Training and Development.
Adolescence Maturity
Parents expect their children to display maturity as soon as they reach adolescence. During this transitional period some behaviors carry forward from the learned patterns including unmet needs, communication difficulties, sensory overload or from social isolation. In some cases, children display later stage learning disabilities, emotion related challenges or reactions to an environment that restricts choice or that causes distress.
During this period parents may observe
- Drastic mood swings
- Persistent sadness or depressive state of mind
- Difficulty in managing daily responsibilities
- Withdrawal from activities or friends
Behavioral Transition
Most children carry forward the behavior that existed during childhood to adulthood due to process of "neurons wire together fire together" the Hebbian effect. These patterns are shaped by maternal psychological distress as the primary cause probably, never had a chance to train and modify, triggering a cascade of physiological changes that alter fetal brain structure and function. These changes are factors in genetics often mediated by epigenetic modification such as DNA methylation and histone changes, which alter gene expression patterns related to stress regulation and neural development.
