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ADOLESCENT TURMOIL: FACT OR FICTION? *
Author(s) -
Rutter Michael,
Graham Philip,
Chadwick O. F. D.,
Yule W.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1976.tb00372.x
Subject(s) - psychology , context (archaeology) , depression (economics) , psychiatry , alienation , feeling , population , developmental psychology , epidemiology , social environment , demography , medicine , social psychology , history , sociology , social science , archaeology , political science , law , economics , macroeconomics
Summary The concept of adolescent turmoil is considered in the context of findings from a total population epidemiological study of Isle of Wight 14–15‐yr‐olds. It is concluded that parent child alienation is not a common feature unless the adolescents are already showing psychiatric problems. Inner turmoil, however, as represented by feelings of misery and self‐depreciation is quite frequent. Psychiatric, conditions are only slightly commoner during adolescence than in middle childhood but the pattern of disorders changes in terms of an increase in depression and school refusal. Many adolescent psychiatric problems arise in early childhood but conditions arising for the first time during adolescence differ in important respect from those with an earlier onset.