Adolescence
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Adolescence (Latin adolescentia, from adolescere, to grow up) is the period of psychological, social, and physical transition between childhood and adulthood (gender-specific, manhood or womanhood).
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- Adolescent medicine
- Ephebophilia - a sexual preference in which an adult is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted to mid to late adolescents
- Fear of youth
- Juvenile Delinquency
- Medical School
- Pedophilia (or paedophilia) - a psychiatric disorder in adults or late adolescents for whom prepubescent children are the primary or exclusive sexual object of their libido.
- Rite of passage
- Sex education
- Student voice
- Suitable age and discretion
- Teen Dating Violence
- Teen drama - (List of teen dramas)
- Teen film - (List of teen films)
- Teen idol
- Teen magazine
- Teen pop
- Timeline of children's rights in the United Kingdom
- Timeline of children's rights in the United States
- Youth
- Youth culture
- Youth voice
- Young worker safety and health
Human development and psychology
- Developmental psychology
- Educational psychology
- Erikson's stages of psychosocial development particularly stages 5 & 6
- Human development
- Kohlberg's stages of moral development particularly stage 3
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Literature
- Tennessee Williams - a description of the emotional impact of puberty and adolescence is to be found in The Resemblance Between a Violin and a Coffin
- Jon Savage - a (pre)history of the development of the teenager is to be found in Teenage (Chatto and Windus, 2007)
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