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years of age. The adolescent experiences not only physical growth and change but also
emotional, psychological, social, and mental change and growth. During this period,
adolescents are expected to become capable of adult behavior and response.” (Medical
structure of personality, behavioral patterns, habits and life goals. Along with inner
changes the person goes through the period of puberty or sexual development. These
changes do not always go smoothly and children have to pass through the crises before
they become grown-ups. Very often specialists talk about the crisis of adolescence.
face in the process of growing up are complicated by problems with their parents,
friends and at school. So, deviant behavior of adolescents can be cased by family
behavior, long depressions and some other symptoms are the signs that indicate that
alarm signals of adolescence crises. During the adolescence period the cases of risk
behavior manifestation are the most frequent. Risk behavior involves such behaviors as
Since the problem is identified it’s necessary to find the ways to resolve it. There are
several ways to treat adolescent behavioral disorders. First of all there are group-based
methods, where youngsters try to work out their problems in the company of people
who have familiar problems. Group-based options include survival camps, boot camps.
All the treatment process is assisted by professional medical workers, social workers,
psychiatrists, etc. These programs have a lot of advantages and are very useful in
treating disorders but there is one essential disadvantage. Despite all the effort they
show comparatively poor success. This can be explained by the fact that social
programs affect only one part of the life of adolescents – social life. At the same time
major parts of the problem, which influence the behavior of adolescents are rooted in
their families. So, treatment programs, which include not only adolescents but also the
member of their families, show better results. So, family-based programs make the
disorders. Working with the parents is an affective method to deal with the problems
caused by abnormal adolescent behavior. Unfortunately, very often parents not only
don’t give necessary help to their children but also create additional problems. “Social
behavior, primarily through monitoring behavior on the part of parents. Parents who
spend more time supervising their children have children who engage in fewer risky
The quality of relations between mothers and daughters influences the age girls start
sexual intercourse (McNeely et al 2002). Statistic shows that the more active part
parents take in growing up their children the less is probability of behavioral problems
during the adolescence period. “The relationship between parent and child affects
between a child’s perceptions of parent(s) knowledge about the goings on in his or her
life and engagement in risk activities like smoking marijuana and stealing. And
regardless of sex, adolescents are less likely to engage in risk behaviors, in this case
alcohol consumption, if they have a positive relationship with their parent(s)” (Overturf,
14). Despite parents have an extremely important influence on the life of adolescents,
there are other aspects of life of teenagers which lay aside from family control. Social
surrounding, educational institutions and the place of work, same as friends, also have
to treating behavioral disorders is applied on several levels and seizes most aspects of
adolescents’ life. In multisystemic programs the treatment involves the work with the
employers. Family relations are still regarded as dominant force, which shapes out the
adolescent’s view of the world and major attention is paid to this aspect of teenagers’
life. The combination of different kinds of treatment shows the best results in dealing