This monograph was written to help teachers, counselors, and parents who live and work with adolescents. It explains the psychological tasks of adolescence, separation from parents, and identity formation. Guidelines are provided for adolescent and parental development in several areas. An overview of regressive adaptation focuses on expressions…

Part 1 of this dissertation contains an introductory chapter entitled, "The Children Shout Fight Fight," in which the written analytical process named Scriptotherapy is discussed. In Chapter 1, "Early Adolescence an Ongoing Process," early adolescent growth and development, the process of moral development, temperament types…