Adolescents' problems: Current state of study

The paper provides a review of opinions on adolescence as a developmental stage, the data about occurence, stability and structure of adolescents psychological problems as well as ways of their identification. As the review has shown it, adolescence is fraught with many educational, personal, social and behavioral problems. Their conceptualization depends on the ways of data gathering and (theoretical or practical) orientation of authors. The evidence about the occurence of psychological problems gathered mainly in the recent years on European samples is so rich that maladjustation may be seen as a ''normal'' phenomenon in adolescents life.