ADOLESCENT AND PSYCHIATRIC NURSING

Adolescence is the time of transitional age when person is not yet adult but is no longer child, through Psychiatric nurses their focus toward adulthood considering social, emotional and physical aspects of their adjustment in their family, school and peer groups and the developmental stage where they are develop defenses or stimulate anew adaptive ways of coping or lead to regression and maladaptive coping responses that this will result in regression, may occur if the needs of an individual are not meet during their childhood and this is the time wherein close supervision of their behavioral, guidance and advises are present especially in the peer group, studies that ambition will be meet cause this is the time wherein they link to their peer group and their emotions are strongly attached to their peer group. Although in the stage of adolescence according to Erickson theory that implies Identity Verses role confusion where there is a positive and negative behavior.

THEORITICAL VIEWS OF ADOLESCENCE

Biological, Psychoanalytical, Psychosocial, Cognitive, Moral, Cultural, Multi-dimensional Theories, these are the theories wherein adolescence is not properly guided, some will develop bad habit if not properly assessed or advice is not present.

MALADAPTIVE RESPONSES

In appropriate sexual activity, teen pregnancy, depression and suicide, self injury, violence, these are the responses of the adolescence wherein they can handle problems or something that they think. They can't handle by their own, so some of them undergo in this responses that they think it is the solution but not, it will lead them in dangerous situation.