Adolescent Psychology - The African Perspective

Abstract

This documents states - the general purpose of Adolescent psychology: the African perspective to provide comprehensive overview of selected facets of Adolescent Psychology as a field of study.

Very few theories are exclusively concerned with the period of adolescence – even though most see adolescence as the pivotal period in the developmental progression.

The document asks the controversial question whether adolescence exists or is just a Eurocentric invention.

Second the Afro – conceptualization of Adolescence is debated in various schools of thought and the applicability of the various theories to Afro – Education.

The document presents perspectives that span the whole continuum of Psychology in Africa but with a cosmopolitan touch and is valuable to University students in the behavioural Science – both Psychological and Physiology as well as Education.