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Offer, Daniel – New York University Education Quarterly, 1982
Examines recent empirical evidence to test theories postulated in separate works by G. Stanley Hall and Anna Freud that adolescents must experience psychological turbulence in the transition to adulthood. Concludes that turmoil is no longer a necessary condition of adolescence and that those who do experience it need psychiatric attention.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Emotional Adjustment