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Moratorium and Work in Adolescence

Ryan Stroud

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English

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Didache
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Before starting my first season of football, my mother and I went to a nearby sporting goods store to pick up some “essential” equipment. As we purchased forearm, elbow, rib, and neck pads, I wondered how all that gear would fit on my scrawny teenage frame. My first practice proved my doubts to be well founded; I could barely move. The very pads designed to protect me had actually become a barrier impeding my giftedness. This paper argues for the obsolescence of the traditional form of psychosocial moratorium into an inhibiting “padding” for youth. This obsolescence, however, also calls the church to redeem the concept of moratorium as a practice. Beginning with a historical perspective, this writing will trace the shifting contexts in which the traditional moratorium has emerged and eventually obsolesced. Following the contextual focus, a perspective that holistically engages the particularity of young people will be constructed by utilizing recent findings in career development theory and cognitive neuroscience. These two perspectives converge in foregrounding Erik Erikson’s own emphasis on exploration and pointing to a re-imagined moratorium as a time of “practicing” adulthood—not delaying the responsibilities of adulthood.

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Publish Year: 2011

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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

KeywordsPsychosocial Moratorium, practicing adulthood, Working Youth, Adolescent, Erik Erickson, Theories of Career Development, Theories of Career Development

Periodical TitleDidache

Periodical Year2011

Periodical Volume Number10

Periodical Issue Number02

Periodical ISSN1536-0156

Peer Reviewed?Yes

Place of PublicationKansas City, Missouri

EditorDean Blevins

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