25岁新的成年分界点?
心理学家新指南中指出,在治疗年轻人时,青春期的划分截止到25岁结束。这是否意味着25岁是成年的新分界点呢?
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New guidance for psychologists will acknowledge that adolescence now effectively runs up until the age of 25 for the purposes of treating young people. So is this the new cut-off划分截止point for adulthood?
"The idea that suddenly at 18 you're an adult just doesn't quite ring true," says child psychologist Laverne Antrobus, who works at“ London's Tavistock Clinic伦敦塔维斯托克诊所.
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“My experience of young people is that they still need quite a considerable 相当大的 amount of support and help beyond that age.""We are becoming much more aware and appreciating development beyond [the age of 18] and I think it's a really good initiative创举," says Antrobus, who believes we often rush through childhood, wanting our youngsters to achieve key milestones very quickly.
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The new guidance is to help ensure that when young people reach the age of 18 they do not fall through the gaps in the health and education system. The change follows developments in our understanding of emotional maturity, hormonal荷尔蒙 development and particularly brain activity.
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"Neuroscience神经科学has made these massive advances where we now don't think that things just stop at a certain age, that actually there's evidence of brain development well into early twenties and that actually the time at which things stop is much later than we first thought," says Antrobus.“
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There are three stages of adolescence - early adolescence from 12-14 years, middle adolescence from 15-17 years and late adolescence from 18 years and over.Neuroscience神经科学has shown that a young person's cognitive development continues into this later stage and that their emotional maturity, self-image and judgment will be affected until the prefrontal cortex of the brain大脑前额皮层has fully developed.
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Alongside brain development, hormonal activity is also continuing well into the early twenties says Antrobus.
“A number of children and young people I encounter 遇到 bet
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