Multi-Problem Adolescents: An Increasing Problem

  Being a teenager can be difficult. Indeed, in this period of life, there are substantial changes that determine how they’ll turn out in adulthood. In fact, being a teen implies cutting some of the ties that bind them to childhood and building new ones. However, teens can often perceive life as stormy, dramatic, and unstable. This occurs because, in Western culture, unlike in others, there are no rites, rituals, or practices that indicate to the adolescent that they’ve ceased to be a child and become a fully-fledged adult (Madruga, 2019). “Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything…