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A- Physical (somatic) maturity:

Body size reaches the adult proportions
Inability to attain normal value → psychological disturbance (inferior or withdraw)

Mental maturity:

**** ability to solve difficult mental tasks.
Intellectual abilities reach their peak with relative lack of experience
++ knowledge, experience & judgment
Interest in exploring & manipulation
Self-perception, ideas and values.
Unrealistic hopes & ambitious life with +*+ day-dreams & sex fantasies
Role of parents & school:
Prepare the adolescent for hormonal changes.
Parents should be more available, but not very close or direct advise all time.
Parents should not use him to fulfill their own failed ambitions.
School should provide intellectually stimulating environment
Appropriate chances to cultrate his actual abilities (no over or under-stimulation)

Emotional and social maturity:

Growth of conscience (inner code) - tolerance & responsibility
Emotional out-bursts are common, but he soon learns to change the emotional energy in creative & constructive directions.
Independent mode of living away from parents, negativism - sign of insecurity.
Interpersonal relations with others swing from excessive belonging to withdrawal
Love of a member of the opposite sex.
Severe intimated relations & romantic crushes (threatened relation).
Sensitive Relations with adults, he perceived their mal estimated attitude. Misjudgment is due to disturbed relations with parents
Sensitive shy adolescents need special handling.
Adults with a special philosophy → conflicts with cultural & social traditions. So, harmony is needed, not to force common models or over-dose of freedom.
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B- refer to pages 65-65 in Dr.Effat’s notes