Teenagers are young boys and girls in the age group of 13 to 19. It is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development occurring between puberty and adulthood. The period of adolescence is most closely associated with the teenage years although its physical, psychological and social expressions can begin earlier and end later.
During adolescence, changes occur in cognitive ability, relativistic thinking, wisdom, identity development, self-concept, social relationship, romance and sexuality. Thus, it is the most important period of life when rapid and sudden changes in physical, psychological and physiological developments occur in the body.
The purpose of this book is to apprise the readers with all the changes—internal as well as external—taking place in adolescents, both males and females. Many types of problems associated with growth, from puberty to adulthood, have been discussed. A number of diseases, particularly those relating to the sexual organs and reproductive systems of boys and girls, like genital herpes, genital warts, gonorrhoea, syphilis and trichomonioasis have been discussed. Methods of treatment thereof have also been suggested.
Adolescence is also the age during which boys and girls face certain mental and emotional conflicts. In some cases there may be negative mental attitudes leading to illness, anxiety, depression, anger, panic, stress, etc. The book studies these situations, provides useful tips on emotional health and suggests ways and means to develop among the teens, the ability to handle these conditions in a proper way.
Addiction to alcohol, tobacco and general drug abuse is common among teenagers these days. The book explains the harmful effects thereof on various organs and systems of the body and suggests the methods of avoiding addiction, etc.
The book is a complete guide on better health for teenagers and will prove highly beneficial for the parents of adolescent children. Various aspects relating to the physical, emotional and physiological development of teenagers have been explained in a simple language and lucid manner for easy comprehension by the readers.
Parvesh Handa is a renowned ISO 9001:2008 certified cosmetologist. She is a regular columnist on health, beauty, body, fashion, yoga and naturopathy in many national newspapers and leading magazines. She was editor of a lifestyle magazine published from New Delhi for several years and has worked with one of the leading cosmetics manufacturing companies as a senior consultant. She has to her credit the first book on herbal beauty published in India in 1982. Her name has been certified in Limca Book of Records in 2009 for her achievement of authoring books on beauty and body.
Ms. Handa is an internationally known figure in the field of indigenous cosmetics made with herbs and roots. She has authored about 40 books on various women subjects—beauty, culture, fashion and modeling, women’s health, slimming, naturopathy and yoga, including two encyclopedias on beauty and health.
A qualified journalist and a yoga teacher, Parvesh Handa has been associated with leading national dailies for years as news and feature correspondent. She has authored six books on yoga—the first book was published in 1983 by a reputed publishing house. She is presently running her own cosmetic manufacturing unit.
