Discussion 1 reply 200 words: A teenage is a young adult between the age of 13–19 years old

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Discussion 1 reply 200 words: A teenage is a young adult between the age of 13–19 years old. At this age the teenager’s body is growing, going through a lot of changes, hormonal changes, and sometimes they may become anxious. Anxiety disorder is when someone worries excessively most often occurs daily for 6 months or more over common everyday interactions, work or their health (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2018). At this age the teenager needs a good support system, not just their family but their community. A community is group of people that lives in the same area/place, they care about each other and they feel that they belong together (Children's Bureau, 2019). Teenagers may have the fear of not belonging and this may cause them anxiety but if they have peers in the community, it will give them a sense of belonging so it can lessen their anxiety. Benefits of a community for teenagers’ emotional support, builds confidence, practical support, conflict resolution and helps with preventing selfishness (Children's Bureau, 2019). As a teenager they tend to lack confidence, self-esteem, a healthy community is a good place for the teen to get support by participating in activities with other teens and community leaders to be able to guide them to make good decisions, assist with conflicts by helping them resolve it properly. If the teenager is left alone and does not talk about their anxiety it can interfere with their growing emotionally, mentally and the anxiety can consume them. In health care we need to cognitive of how much anxiety is already present in teenagers, there is so much pressure out there and if they do not have a health family and community support available their anxiety can worsen. Nurses can work in the community by setting up support groups for teenager with anxiety to teach them coping skills, ways to manage their anxiety and also to assess if they need in-depth professional help, such as psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, or therapist. If the teenage present needing this help, then the nurse can assist with facilitating them access to it. Education is very important in helping teenagers but it does not have to be formal, it can be informal and this will the help so it won’t intimidated them especially if they have anxiety already. Having activities in the community of helping others in need, or the elderly with yard work will promote teens to work with different ages and doing this physical activity will promote the teen to sleep better and this too will decrease anxiety. When the teenagers are in these support groups the nurse can assess them and how they are managing their anxiety and if they may require more help such as a social worker, psychiatrist or psychologist then the can assist the teenager with setting up further care.