Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children: Entering adolescence and becoming a young adult

In March 2014, the fifth wave of Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) was released. For the K cohort (kindergarten cohort) this means that information has been collected and released on children from 4-5 through to 12-13 years of age. That span of time marks an important transition to adolescence. Adolescence is widely considered to begin with the onset of puberty, with early adolescence typically spanning 10 to 14 years of age and late adolescence, 15 to 19 years of age. In the remainder of this article, these age groups will be referred to as young people. This period of development is marked by rapid development physically, cognitively and emotionally, and LSAC is uniquely placed to provide a national perspective on this period of life to inform the development of better policies, programs and services to support young people in a successful transition to young adulthood (20 to 24 years).

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