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18 ble, but culturally determined; she found that difficulties in the transition from childhood to adulthood varied from one culture to another. The Ger-man-born American psychologist Erik Erikson saw development as a psy-chosocial process going on throughout life. All three insights are valuable in their own way, but each adolescent shares a unique task: to develop from a dependent to an independent person who relates to others in a humane and well-socialized fashion. Common disorder in Adolescence Acne, eruptive skin disease. Acne in adolescence results primarily from hormonal changes taking place in the body; the hormones stimulate sebum production. Anorexia Nervosa, in medicine, a condition characterized by intense fear of gaining weight or becoming obese, as well as a distorted body image, leading to an excessive weight loss from restricting food intake and excessive exercise. Bulimia, an eating disorder in which persistent overconcern with body weight and shape leads to repeated episodes of binging (consuming large amounts of food in a short time) associated with induced vomiting, use of laxatives, fasting and/or excessive exercise to control weight. Bulimia usual-ly develops during adolescence (most commonly among females) as a result of various psychological pressures, the most obvious one being the social emphasis on the desirability of slimness. Text 4. THE PARENT-TEEN RELATIONSHIP: LIFE THROUGH A TEENAGER‟S EYES ―Enjoy them now, they‘ll soon be teenagers!‖ Warnings like this from friends and relatives, together with media images of adolescents as irrespon-sible, rebellious troublemakers, can lead parents to expect trouble as their children enter puberty. It is a rare parent who does not approach a child's adolescence without some misgivings. But family life does not have to be a battleground during the teenage years. P...