ABSTRACT
The last chapter summarized the dialectical challenges of group leadership and identified four sets of related skills that group leaders needed to navigate group leadership successfully. This chapter summarizes the three major developmental challenges or passages of adolescence, the “rapids in the river,” the dialectical tensions, that teens must successfully navigate in order to gain a safe passage through this crucially important period of their lives. It also addresses both the possibilities and the potential pitfalls of these developmental passages as well as showing how this understanding of the crucial dialectical tensions of adolescence informed the author’s work with them, the curriculum they developed, and the goals they have for this curriculum.
