Adjustment Among Adolescents in Relation to Values

The majority of the mental disturbances are failures of adjustment by the individual to social living¿an adjustment that is becoming more and more difficult in this era of transition wherein social values and standards are so rapidly changing. Harmonious emotional adjustment has thus become a problem for majority of the population.The child brings to his educational experiences the sum total of his abilities, interests and attitudes. By the school and out of the school experiences he continuously is being moulded into that kind of person that he now is and that eventually he will become. All the agencies that are concerned with the development of the child especially the home and the school must become aware of those phases of the individual behaviour that represent significant factors of his adjustment