- Understand and express more complex emotional experiences
- Form friendships with both sexes that are mutually close and supportive
- Establish key aspects of identity
- Meet the demands of increasingly mature roles and responsibilities
- Renegotiate relationships with adults in parenting roles
- Adjust to sexually maturing bodies and feelings
- Develop and apply abstract thinking skills
- Develop and apply a more complex level of perspective taking
- Develop and apply new coping skills in decision making, problem solving, and conflict resolution
- Identify meaningful moral standards, values, and belief systems
excerpt from presentation, "Stepping Into The Fray: Common Sense Strategies
for Parenting Teens, for the Center for Hope and Healing - January, 2012
courtesy of Dr. Tammy Finch, SKILLSENSE - skillsense.org
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