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self f identity, the development of abilities and potentials, the acquirement of
skills and knowledge for coping with the addt world, the re-evaluation of values
learnt during childhood and the exploration of meaning in life under the influence
of various environmental factors. When care is not taken to ensure a successful
transition during youth, all the untoward effects of lack of self identity, lack of
self esteem, immoral standards, and inability to cope with adult life results! This
in turn leads to the development. of the socially destructive behaviour of juvenile
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delinquency drug abuse prostitution and the less immediately obvious self
destructive mental illness in later adult life.
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The future lies in the prevention of maladaption during this critical
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transitional period of human development. Other than giving support to the findings
of the Report I have the following additional recommendations.
There exist deteriorating moral standards among our young! A study of the moral
attitudes of our youth should therefore be addressed and Moral Education strengthened
within the family and the schools.
A study should be made into the risk factors giving rise to problems of youth
such that early identification & intensive counselling could offset the need for
prosecution and rehabilitation.
The normal standards of physical and mental development of adolescents in Hong
Kong are lacking. The Paediatric Department of the Chinese University should be
given support in their failed attempts to apply for a research grant to study the
same. Furthermore, with the increasing hospital admissions of adolescents into
children's wards, adolescent medicine should be developed as a specialty under
Paediatrics.
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