WORKING WITH ADOLESCENTS: PRACTICE TIPS AND …

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DEFINING ADOLESCENCE Adolescence is the transition period from childhood to adulthood, including physical and psychological changes beginning around puberty and extending to age 25.7 While the World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledges that age is a convenient way to define adolescence, it is just one characteristic.

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