What is the difference between counseling children and adolescents?
It begins with the age groups. Infants (or toddlers) 0 – 5 years old. Children are 6 – 11 years old. We then recognize children as adolescents at 12 – 18 years old (their teen years). Because of the age groups, levels of maturity and understanding are different. There are two main reasons for this. The first one is the fact that as people gorw older, they experience and learn about more things. The second is that a person’s brain continues to change physically and biologically (especially the frontal lobe area). This puts actual restraints while continuing its growth on how the brain processes information and a person responds to the stimulus of the world.
