Excerpt from Adolescence and Youth: The Process of Maturing The Transition experience that bridges the gap between childhood and adulthood is the subject of never-ending study. The physiological experience of puberty, the psychological experience of attaining maturity, and the sociological experience of adjustment of those in the teen ages is an ever-present challenge to parents and teachers as the generations succeed each other. Still there is not enough understanding of the nature of this critical period in the life cycle of man. In the study of adolescence there has been too much emphasis on the physiological, too little on the social and psychological; too little understanding that experience is more than a function of physical maturation and inherent disposition; too little understanding of the impingement of the social processes on the developing organism; too much emphasis upon adolescence and youth as a state, a period; too little upon it as a dynamic process which leads the growing organism through a molding series of social experiences. A great deal is to be gained from an understanding of the social world in which adolescents and youth function, and in seeing how interaction there affects the transition to adulthood. Teacher training must deal more realistically with experience factors in the development of adolescents and youth. Compared with these, understanding the physical organism and inborn behavior mechanisms is of only incidental importance. A comprehension of the functional social situation is a first step to real understanding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.