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f. Imitation
Adolescents want recognition from different
people. They try to present their every aspect in
different manner. They want to draw attention
from other people. For this, they change their
dress-up, hair style, speaking and walking style,
eating habits, etc. During adolescence, they are
highly impressed by some famous personalities
like sports person, players, singers, musicians,
actors, actresses, etc. They try to imitate several Fig: 14
activities and behaviours of those personalities.
As a result, they get involved into various bad activities like smoking, drinking alcohol,
taking drugs and so on. Sometimes, imitation leads towards accidents and other health
problems as well.

g. Early marriage
Early marriage is very common in our context. Most of the parents want to get their
children married as soon as possible. So, the adolescent girls become pregnant in the
young age and they are deprived of several social, economic and educational activities.
Moreover, early marriage causes several health complication for mother as well as
child. Due to young age, the pregnancy becomes complicated. There is high chance of
miscarriage, abnormal growth of foetus, increase of blood pressure and sugar level,
excessive bleeding, etc. Moreover, they are not mature enough to nurture the children
properly and bear the family responsibilities well. These all create a lot of mental stress
among adolescent.

Management of problems of adolescence
It is normal and natural that adolescents have physical, mental, emotional and social
changes during adolescence. Adolescents may have several problems related to all those
changes. Hence, it is very important to address the problems of adolescents for their
overall development and bright future. We can adopt the following measures for the
management of problems of adolescents.

a. Counselling and guidance
Adolescence is the age of problems. The adolescents
have several problems as matter of various
changes. They have problems of friends, study,
love affairs, infatuation, physiological changes
and so on. They are not capable enough to solve
all those problems by themselves neither they can
express their problems with seniors or others. As a
result, they have lot more stress and tension. There
is change in their behaviours, distraction from Fig: 15
studies, weak academic performance, increase of anger and some other psychological
changes. Very often they tend to adopt unhealthy measures and impractical actions to
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