Abstract
All societies recognize the importance of adolescent passage into adulthood and have institutionalized social processes by which this objective is attained. This is born out of the necessity of each society to prepare and induct the adolescent into the adult world in order to provide for its continuity and relative stability and for the perpetuation of cultural values. All adolescents living in different periods of time invariably have experienced the crisis of change. Today it appears more intense and ominous as many adolescents in our culture are hard put to traverse this decisive phase of life. The reasons appear to be the phenomenal increase in the adolescent population,' the turbulent social changes created by spectacular technological advances and sociopolitical action, and the poorly structured, unstable induction system necessary to provide the transition of the adolescent into the adult society. Adolescence, a period of striking physical and psychological transformation, always has been characterized by unrest, by physical and
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