 Hello everyone, I am Sira Satish Kumar, Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry in Manipal Hospital, Spangler. Stress in children, stress in teens and stress in adults are altogether different. What makes a children stressful is mostly the academics, how the parents expect their child to be good in everything, good in sports, good in academics and everything. How the teachers expect their children to be good in every subject, how father want the child to be good in everything. So child is stressed because of the peer pressure. When parent starts comparing the child with the neighbour's kid, with the other school children, child is under pressure. The child is under pressure to perform better, to excel and the child is not able to do it. The child is under pressure. Teen is in pressure in altogether different ways. Now when a child passes out of the school, goes into the college, the adolescent goes through a lot of differences because when a adolescent of the age 14 to 18 goes out of the home to a college, he will be seeing kids, they follow different patterns of lifestyle. Now the adolescent wants to adapt that lifestyle, that is when the differences in the person starts. Now again, there is a lot of pressure to perform well, to excel, to get into a job, to get into a better school after completion of the degree is what the teen falls into the stress. Now there is another aspect which is altogether not given importance which is interpersonal relationship. Most adolescents after the age of 14 and 15 look for emotional dependency, emotional security. So they look for their partners in the form of boyfriend and girlfriend. So that is when the person gets into a lot of stress, when the things are not happening between them. They get into substance abuse and they are not able to cope up with the academics, not able to cope up with the family lifestyles.