Growth & Development

What should you expect as your child grows? I will learn how to understand and deal with child's body and mind changes from young children to young people

Adolescence is a period of rapid growth and development. The release of hormones causes physical growth that we can easily observe. But what I can not imagine is that the growth and development of adolescent brains is correspondingly accelerated. Recent studies using MRI have generated many typical behaviors related to puberty, especially risk taking behavior (Steinberg, 2007). To understand adolescent brain development provides young people with important information as young people respond to this difficult developmental period.

Adolescence is a developmental stage from childhood to adulthood. It is not just physical development and sexual maturity (puberty and biological development). In puberty, a dramatic and important change (intellectual development or cognitive development) in the brain's thought process, and a change in the way teens think about themselves and other people (psychosocial development or social / Emotional development). The age at beginning and end of puberty - and the rate at which the process progresses - varies from person to person and is still considered normal. For example, the adolescence of a girl starts at 8 years old, enters the menstrual period at the age of 10, and the other girl is 14 years old and begins breast development at the age of 11 until menstruation begins.