I really enjoy working with adolescents and discussing issues of health with them. It’s strange though, because I always get this weird mix of intrigue and utter freight just before speaking with them. As I said in the beginning, adolescence is a time period that fascinates me because it is so often the most difficult time in a young person’s life. I recall personally feeling as though no one understood me. So now it is my mission in life to work to understand adolescents (or at least to make them feel like someone does), so that I can help them successfully, and healthily transition into adulthood.
Yet, it is amazing how different this experience can be as an outsider (non-adolescent). I feel that this course has helped me gain a ton of information about the ecological context of adolescent life that will aid me as a public health professional to adapt to their varying worlds. I hope to work with adolescents’ in the future in ways that can positively impact them throughout each of the interwoven levels of the ecological context.
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