'Adolescence is the compensation of childhood.' The suppressed emotions of all kinds of positive and negative situations in childhood emerge here. In this process, whether they experience a traumatic event or not, adolescents struggle with every event and try to be victorious. For them, resisting every situation is the biggest step in revealing their individuality. Not supporting their struggle in this individuation process makes the difficult situation even more difficult for individuals who have already experienced the trauma of transition to adulthood.
Adolescence is a difficult period for both adolescents and their families. While the family has difficulty in understanding the adolescent, the adolescent thinks that he/she cannot fully experience the feeling of being understood.
The adolescent has entered a different period physically, sexually, socially and emotionally. Due to the processes experienced in these developmental areas, the adolescent feels different and often has difficulty in defining himself.
A wide variety of trauma-related behaviors can be observed in adolescence. Among them; sleep disorders, nightmares, flashbacks in sleep or daily life, fidgety, restless, sleepy, dull, desire to be alone, crying at every opportunity, excessive attachment to familiar objects, difficulty in coping with change, difference in relationships with parents, excessive being demanding or completely withdrawn, having more negative relationships with siblings, increasing fights, developing obsessive thoughts about traumatic events, worrying about repeating events, caring too much about the needs of others, decrease in school success, decreased/distorted attention, dissatisfaction, excessive attention to minor events There are many differences, such as how to respond. The differences experienced raise some questions in the individual. ‘What is happening to me? What are the changes in my body?' are questions that occupy the mind and cause obsessive thoughts. The individual who has difficulty in seeking answers to these questions expects support. Above all, the adolescent should experience the feeling of being understood and valued. For this reason, parents should be sensitive about their words and behaviors in order to keep these feelings alive. Otherwise, the adolescent will need different environments in order to satisfy these feelings. This stage is tends to move away from family and get closer to friends. The point where the presence of families is most important here is support, understanding and unconditional acceptance. The difficulties experienced in the transition to adulthood have been experienced by everyone and have left an impact on different levels. The diversity of the effects; It depends on factors such as family structure, socio-cultural environment, physiological development variability, adaptability, personality.
These differences allow the adolescent to perceive himself and those around him more clearly when he looks back at the transition to adulthood, his reaction to the lived situations and the gains of the struggle. Seeing her and her losses helps her to complete the process in a healthier way.
If we consider the differences, first of all, the family structure is the situation that affects the individual the most. As human relations are in the family where he was brought up, he tries to establish all the relations that he will establish in the next process in this context. As I mentioned in my previous articles, the mother (the caregiver) is the one who creates our first attachment style. The child establishes a relationship with the same attachment style in subsequent human relationships as he was with the mother. The place of family relationships is therefore very important. Apart from the relationship established only with the child, it is a role model in the relationship established by the parents among themselves, in observing other relationships that the child is not in.
Sociocultural environment is the environment that consists of individuals outside the reared family. This environment is an environment that can quickly absorb the adolescent, can be directed in line with different purposes, possible effects can occur in a positive or negative way, and can observe the bilateral relations that develop differently from the family. Although this environment greatly influences the individual, it will enable him to quickly adapt to a new environment where he can create himself without falling into loneliness, especially during this period when he is away from his family, which he thinks does not understand him.
Physiological development is subjective, just like fingerprints. Nutrition and sleep patterns of the individual and genetic factors are among the factors that most affect this level of development.
The adaptability of the individual to this critical developmental adventure is the best way to show his capacity to fight against difficulties. this m Struggle is very valuable for young adults who are in the stage of revealing their individuality and self-knowledge, as an adventure that requires intense effort and increases their ability to face difficulties such as family, friends and other circles. In order for the development and change experienced during the transition to adulthood not to turn into trauma, and for the effects of this process to touch the life of the individual with the least damage, people should take steps to establish healthier human relations by seeing and confronting their personal cycles with a therapist.
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