The Child in Your Care
A series of ten programmes on child development, linked with the in-service study course prepared for residential staff by the Central Training Council for Child Care.
9: Adolescence and Early Adult Life
This period poses special problems and difficulties in relationships which need to be resolved if the adolescent is to develop Into a mature and responsible adult.
A child psychiatrist with a special interest in adolescence looks at the needs of young people approaching adulthood, and at some of the particular difficulties which can arise in the residential setting.
Introduced by DR. PENELOPE LEACH
Produced by Dennis Simmons