Learning Personality Theories: Behavioral Problems of Teenagers学习人格理论:行为上有问题青少年
现在的问题是非常重要的青少年发展自从他们经常面临着一系列问题,可能带来的负面影响,它甚至还可以谈论人格障碍的青少年。另一方面,他们也面临严重的问题社会化。在这种情况下,值得分析波顿举行的关于行为问题在十几岁的L.E.影响青少年的人格和社会环境。
首先,应该说作者坚持认为青少年和风险是同义词的概念。她估计风险是人生中自然的一部份,而一个少年的他们都必须通过它。此外,L.E.波顿表明现在有更多的机会青少年冒险比以往任何时候都多。它解释了影响的变化发生在现代社会中,它听起来很逻辑并劝服。人类技术已经犯了这样的一个重大的进展和现代生活充满了不同的复杂的机器,生活的节奏如此之快,知识的匮乏或注意可能会导致悲惨的结果。
这当然是青少年所遭受的痛苦是最大的以来,一方面,他们想要独立于他们的父母和其他成年人,他们想让别人当作成人,另一方面,他们还是孩子,需要父母的支持和指导在许多问题。不幸的是,他们,以及他们的许多父母,没有意识到后者的事实。由于青少年、被留在自己,有一些问题,如药物或酒精成瘾,离家出走,因为它是在案件的一个十三岁的吉儿,他只是thrill-seeking。
同时作者试图解释这一趋势的青少年冒险不仅社会关系和他们的同龄人交往,但基本上由外圆与父母的关系在一个家庭。
Nowadays the problem of the development of teenagers is very important since often they face a number of problems which may have to negative consequences that it is even possible to speak about personality disorders of adolescents. On the other hand, they also face serious problems with socialization. In such a situation, it is worthy to analyze the research held by Ponton L.E. concerning behavior problems in teenagers and their effects on personality and social surrounding of teenagers.
First of all, it should be said that the author insists on the idea that teenagers and risk are synonymous notions. She estimates that risk is a natural part of life of any teenager and willing or not they have to pass through it. Moreover, L.E. Ponton indicates that nowadays teenagers have much more opportunities of taking risk than ever before. It is explained by the impact of the changes that take place in the contemporary society and it sounds quite logical and persuading. Human technologies have made such a significant progress and modern life is full of different sophisticated machines, the rhythm of the life is so rapid that the lack of knowledge or attention may lead to tragic results.
Naturally, it is teens who suffer the most since, on one hand, they want to be independent from their parents and other adult people they want other people treat them as grown ups, on the other hand, they are still children and need parents support and guidance in many questions. Unfortunately, they, as well as many of their parents, do not realize the latter fact. As the result teenagers, being left on their own, got some problems, like drug or alcoholic addiction, run away from home as it was in the case of a 13 year old Jill, who was simply thrill-seeking.
At the same time the author attempts to explain the trend of teenagers to risk taking not only social relations with their peers and people of outer circle but basically by relations with their parents within a family.
It should be pointed out that, unlike many other specialists working in the same field as L.E. Ponton does, she has a different view on risk taking. She rejects a traditional idea that risk taking is primarily an angry power struggle with parents, i.e. a so-called teenage rebellion against their parents’ power. So, L.E. Ponton defines risk taking as “a potentially positive testing process” (Ponton 1997:134) whereby challenge and risk are the primary tools the teenagers use in order to find out who they are and to determine who they will become.
Furthermore, the author of “The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do” researches teenagers representing different social classes and environments. Among the cases she analyzes in her work it is possible to find the case of Jill that have already been mentioned, Hannah, who is a privileged daughter of suburbia who suffer from anorexia, or Joe, who is a high school student with a serious drinking problems. Such approach to the research obviously provides the author with an essential variety of data that provides quite an objective view on problems teenagers face in their life.
On analyzing these cases, a reader comes to realize that Ponton’s basic idea that “must confront and experience challenge and risk along the pass of self-discovery”. Consequently, judging from this statement it is possible to conclude that risk and challenge are really essential parts of the life of a teenager since they help him/her to understand her own nature, or self and probably in such a way they help find his/her own place in life and society.
It is particularly important for teenagers because according to the author for teenagers, the powerful allure of the adult world is equaled only by the fear of failing to find a place in it. It means that teenagers through risk taking and challenges get accustomed to the adult way of life and it helps them not to be lost in this newly discovered world.
It is obvious that a child transformation during the adolescence is extremely difficult and full of different problems but L.E. Ponton underlines that a child’s transformation into an adult may be eased if the help of parents is wisely suggested and used. Actually, she suggests a bit unusual and to a certain extent risky strategy of relations between parents and their adolescent children. She agrees that parents can ease the transition of teenagers into adulthood by promoting “healthy risk-taking” that is a kind of risk taking which presuppose that dangerous options would be avoided./
In fact this idea is quite arguable point because it is extremely hard, if possible at all, to fulfill. At least it presuppose a high level of parents education and knowledge about children and teens psychology along with a good knowledge of their own children that may be a problem in the modern world while the author estimates that it is necessary to educate parents and persuade them that such a risk taking should not be avoided or ignored but on the contrary widely discussed, especially with teenagers. So, one of the primary task of parents is to stop fear risk taking and start to understand its nature and lead their children through its windy path.
Thus, L.E. Ponton believes that in such a way teenagers transformation into adults would be safer and the risk taking would be romanticized, naturally on the condition of their parents guidance and support, as well as other adults who they communicate with. According to the author all this will lead to right risks teenagers face in their life.
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