Socio_emotional problems during the period of adolescence: 1. Drug abuse
2. Juvenile deliquency
3. Dropping out of school
4. Unplanned pregnancies
A. Causes of af drug abuse
*Peer pressure
*Frustration,anxiety,tension
*Parental influence
B.causes of Juvenile deliquency
* Conflicts in the family
*Rejection by the father specially may result in deliquent tendencies.
*Youngesters sometimes indulge in deliquent acts because antisocial behaviour is very much part of their background.
C.causes of school drop outs:
*Continual failures
*Peer group influence
*Poor teacher_student and student_Student relationships.
D.causes of :Unplanned pregnancies
*Poor educational status
*Lack of access to health services and health education.
Single in marital status
*Sexual violence
*Poor economic status
HOW CAN DEAL WITHÂ THE PROBLEMS OF ADOLESCENTS DURING THEIR PERIOD
1.Drug abuse:
_ Parents and significant others should set good models.
_ Combine efforts by both parents and the school should be made to prevent and counsel adolescents identified.
2. Juvenile delinquency:
_ Both the school and the home should create an atmosphere that will strengthen the resistance of children to the pressures of delinquency.
_ Establish good child_parent and teacher- child relationships.
3.School drop outs:
_ As a teacher we can :
incucate positive attitudes in student to wards achievement and the school in general.
_Accept learning conent to the needs and abilities of individual groups of learniners.