{"id":403,"date":"2016-09-06T18:46:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/?page_id=403"},"modified":"2016-10-24T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:32:05","slug":"identity-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/mental-health-education\/issues\/identity-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Identity development in teens is a critical developmental task. Adolescents\u00a0with a strong, clear sense of identity are more likely to achieve their goals and they report higher satisfaction with their lives than teens without a clear identity. However, developing a healthy identity is not easy. Teens may experience emotional problems and other challenges that disrupt the identity formation process. And, during their quest for an identity, they may become moody, distant, or rebellious.<\/p>\n<h2>3 Important Facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Teens often have an increased need to be accepted. Because of this, they may have trouble forming a clear sense of self if their ethnic, gender, sexual, or cultural identity is different from their peers.<\/li>\n<li>Teens tend to think in black and white. This is a result of normal brain development. It can, however, make some teens highly reactive and sensitive.<\/li>\n<li>Healthy recreational activities can help teens with identity formation. These activities can positively impact a teen&#8217;s sense of self-efficacy, social competence and self-esteem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity development in teens is a critical developmental task. Adolescents\u00a0with a strong, clear sense of identity are more likely to achieve their goals and they report higher satisfaction with their lives than teens without a clear identity. However, developing a healthy identity is not easy. Teens may experience emotional problems and other challenges that disrupt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484,"parent":41,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-issue.tpl.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/403\/revisions\/1938"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}