Since my short film is almost like a coming-of-age film, I would like to research the common effects that maturity has on teenagers in terms of stress and growth.
According to BJ Casey, a professor of psychology at Yale who directs a "Fundamentals of the Adolescent Brain Lab", the shift from childhood to adulthood is never linear. Often times, people have adult models as they grow and mature into an adult, which makes them automatically have an expectation to become that adult. The time period between puberty and a person's mid-20s is when the brain grows and changes by thinning the gray matter in the cerebral cortex while white matter connects the brain increases.
There are large sums of research that explain how much of a change that maturity changes a person, but I specifically want to research high schoolers and the way that they think about certain things. So, discovering yourself as a teen is incredibly important, because of the amount of engagement and motivation that it generates. It can also allow for a better readiness for the future.
As a teenager myself, I believe that maturing is a vast skill, whether it's personality or even just your status and role in the world. I know this because of psychology. In psychology, which studies the brain and development of humans, there are tests to help determine maturity. There are multiple personality tests out there, giving students a guide to understanding who they are as people. These personality tests come in handy for psychologists, so I will be using personality tests on my cast members to help retain my whole goal of my short film- to represent mental health.
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