This document discusses various problems faced by teenagers including bullying, social exclusion, peer pressure, drugs and alcohol use, eating disorders, and parental divorce or adoption. It provides details on the types and effects of different issues such as social exclusion blocking individuals from opportunities, bullying including verbal and physical abuse, and peer pressure to conform. The document also examines causes like family or academic problems and consequences such as health issues, depression, and changes in appetite or sleep from drugs and alcohol use.

1. Teen Problems

2. Introduction
• It’s not easy being a teenager in today’s world. From
depression and eating disorders to bullying and cutting, teens
deal with a wide range of issues as they grow and develop.

3. Teen problems
• Bullying;
• Social Exclusion;
• Conflict Resolution;
• Panic Disorder;
• Anxiety;
• Depression;
• Peer Pressure;
• Drugs and alcohol consume;
• Eating Disorders;
• Body Image;
• Parents Divorce;
• Adoption.

4. Social Exclusion
• Social exclusion is social disadvantage and relegation to the
fringe of society. It’s a process in which individuals or entire
communities of people are systematically blocked from
various rights, opportunities and resources that are normally
available to members of a different group, and which are
fundamental to social integration within that particular
group .
• The Alienation resulting from social exclusion is often
connected to a person's social class, educational status,
childhood relationships, living standards, or personal choices
in fashion.
• Such forms of discrimination apply to people with a
disability, minorities, drug users, "seniors" or young people.
Anyone who appears to deviate in any way from the
"perceived norm" of a population may thereby become subject
to coarse or subtle forms of social exclusion.

5. Bullying
• Bullying is repeated verbal, physical, social or psychological
aggressive behaviour by a person or group directed towards a
less powerful person or group that is intended to cause harm,
distress or fear. Bullying is divided into four basic types of
abuse – emotional, verbal, physical, and cyber. It typically
involves subtle methods of coercion, such as intimidation.
• Bullying examples:
• Slapping, hitting, pinching, punching, kicking;
• Extortion;
• Name-calling;
• Racist or homophobic comments.

6. Effects of Bullying
• The victims often struggle with acceptance after suffering at
the hands of a bully. The victim may experience:
• Fear and withdrawal from normal activities where they may
encounter the bully;
• Anxiety and depression;
• Stress;
• Poor self-esteem;
• Headaches, stomach ailments and other physical problem.

7. Peer Pressure
• Peer pressure is influence that a peer group, observers or
individual exerts that encourages others to change their
attitudes, values, or behaviors to conform to group norms.
Social groups affected include membership groups, in which
individuals are "formally" members (such as political parties
and trade unions), or social cliques in which membership is
not clearly defined. A person affected by peer pressure may
or may not want to belong to these groups.

8. Drugs and Alcohol consume
• There are many things that can make a teen start doing drugs
or drinking alcohol. Maybe they are having problems at
home or in school, or a friend was doing it, maybe they think
that doing it will make them “cool” but they don’t know that
they’re only harming themselves, they are the ones who are
going to suffer from that in the future, sure alcohol, cigarettes
and drugs might sound fun for teens but they only bring lots
of problems and dangers, for them and for the people around
them.
• These days teens aren’t well informed about all the trouble of
intoxication, they only care about what they feel in those
moments, regardless the consequences.

9. Types of Drugs and Alcohol
• Beer;
• Whiskey;
• Vodka;
• Tequila;
• Wine;
• Gin;
• Liquor;
• Rum;
• Cocaine;
• Marijuana/cannabis;
• Ecstasy;
• Heroin;
• Meth;
• LSD;
• Crack;

10. Causes
• Family Problems;
• Peer pressure;
• Health problems;
• Money;
• Physical, emotional, and lifestyle changes;
• Developmental transitions (increasing independence);
• Academic failure.

11. Consequences
• Appetite changes;
• Weight loss;
• Eczema;
• Headaches;
• Sleep disturbance;
• Vomits;
• Coma;
• Depression;
• Anxiety/Stress;
• Health problems.

12. Parents divorce
• Depending on what happens in your family, you might have
to adjust to many changes. These could include things like
moving, changing schools, spending time with both parents
separately, and perhaps dealing with parents' unpleasant
feelings about one another.
• Your parents may go to court to determine custody
arrangements. You could end up living with one parent most
of the time and visiting the other, or your parents may split
their time with you evenly. At the beginning, it means you
might have to be flexible and might have more hassles to deal
with for a while.
• Some teens have to travel between parents, and that can
create challenges both socially and practically. Over time you
can figure out a new routine that works for all of you. Often,
it takes a while for custody arrangements to be finalized. This
can give people time to adapt to these big changes and let
families figure out what works best.
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13. Adoption
• It is important as adoptees learn about and deal with their
stories, that adults help them with the difficult information.
Sometimes a parent was abusive or neglectful or addicted or
even died. Sometimes a parent had a mental illness or was in
prison. Sometimes adopted children don't or can't find out the
information because it is unobtainable. Many children want
to know what their birth parents looked like. Many want to
know if their birth mother and birth father cared about one
another or were they an accident?
• It is vital that adoptive parents share this important
information with their adopted teens or else they risk having
the teen find out anyway and feeling angry, betrayed and
imagining even worse scenarios than the truth. By the time a
child is an adolescent they should know all of the pieces
around their adoption that can be shared.

14. Credits
• Ana Lúcia Dionísio nº3;
• Ana Luísa Teixeira nº4;
• Sofia Ferreira nº22;
• Class: 9º2ª.