• Phase
  • Biological Upheaval: onslaught of puberty motional Change
• Psychological Profile
  • Physical body embarrassing.
  • Rebellious to home and parents.
  • Selfworth defined through competition.
  • “Rational-Technical level:” Know all the answers.
  • Perplexed emotionally.
• Faith Profile
  • Moving from childish things orientation to personal self orientation. Faith development has to do with helping the individual form .a healthy self image. Faith, as in-personal conviction, is not yet internalized. “Formal teaching of religion very difficult.”

• Phase
  • Age of Negativism
• Psychological Profile
  • Perennial boredom.
  • Hobbies often dropped.
  • Hostile towards close relations.
  • Fluctuating attitudes and moods; unpredictable.

• Phase
  • Romantic State
• Psychological Profile
  • Discovery of non-tangible values: truth, beauty, love, justice, etc.
  • Align themselves with such ideals and often use them to react against the establishment, adults and organizations alike.
  • Introspective, reflective and often self-righteous.
• Faith Profile
  • The possibility of a persona] faith experience.
  • A recognition of the individualism of others.
  • Often times formal religion is rejected, too structured.
  • Important to understand and be patient.

• Phase
  • Late Adolescence - Integration
• Psychological Profile
  • The relationship between ideals and the establishment are con-fronhed.
  • Ideals are applied to life situations: job, marriage, etc.
• Faith Profile
  • Religious maturation can address the dilema of formal religion and personal faith.
  • Religion and faith no longer just “black and white,” but gray too.
  • A willingness to accept the frailties of institutional religion.

(An adaptation of the work of Dr. Bernard Boelen by Tom Zanzip.)

• Boys:
  • Begin to discover they are unique
  • Realize they can have values of their own
  • Tend to become more involved Abound in energy
  • Experience depths and heights in their efforts to accomplish their goals
  • React quickly to opposite views
  • Need Support

• Girls:
  • Begin to discover they are unique
  • Realize they can have values of their own
  • Tend to become more involved Abound in energy
  • Experience depths and heights in their efforts to accomplish their goals
  • React quickly to opposite views
  • Need Support
  • Physically more developed
  • More sensitive
  • Greater interest in friendship and personal relationships

• Preoccupied with their own self image
• Feel the loss of the stability and security of childhood
• Appear self-confident 'though often deeply troubled interiorly
• Experience great self doubt in decision making
• Have a tendency toward apathy and moodiness Are easily bored, not willing to stick to task
• Internal disorder reflected in external appearances
• Receptive to topics dealing with self identity, practical morality, proper love of self and others. The world and life is viewed as a personal problem to be solved.

• Feel more secure in terms of own personality, continue to test it
• Begin to ask “Who am I?” and “What is life about?” in a more philosophical way rather than a personal way
• Are more intellectually curious and critical
• Ask broader questions of who we are, destiny of human race
• Experience a time of romanticism, idealis~, a search for absolutes
• Begin to ask authentic religious questions Time to test out, to experiment, to challenge and to criticize
• Are psychologically a revolutionary, tolerate no imperfection

• Have a more clear though tentative self image
• Are entering the peak period of their life in terms of energy, stamina and coordination
• Are at the threshold of adulthood.
• Basic question becomes: “What should I do with this self, with these talents and these physical capacities I possess?”
• Concerned about personal future
• Find cultural influences complicate life, tends to postpone the maturing process
• Have capacity and natural inclination to begin tomake important decisions about their adult life
• Experience anxiousness and frustration-role of student, dependent
• Pulled toward the future and the anxiousness concerning it. This may not be noticeable on the surface