How to Help Teens Deal With Social Pressure

  Managing social pressure can be quite a challenge, especially in adolescence. It might be due to that friend who’s the first in the group to start drinking. Or, the one who judges on appearance. Whatever the case may be, at this extremely sensitive stage for the construction of identity, the teen can experience tremendous pressure. Adolescence is the stage when opinions and moral values establish themselves and the need for permanence increases. As a result, teens attempt to impose their views on others, while trying to also find like-minded groups. Unsurprisingly, this can turn into chaos. How can they…