The phrase "adolescent themes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe topics or issues that are relevant to or characteristic of adolescents, often found in literature, film, or discussions about youth culture.
Example: "The novel explores various adolescent themes, such as identity, peer pressure, and the quest for independence."
Alternatives: "youthful themes" or "teenage themes".
It means to break up into hostile units -- usually a group believing one religion, race or ethnicity is more important than another (there's that adolescent theme again).
In contrast, the Atomic Testing Museum, in the heart of Las Vegas, America's fun capital, is an adolescent theme park of raw power, with sensurround simulations of nuclear detonation and endless videos of our prowess at blowing big holes in the ground, but no acknowledgment of the human cost of the technology being celebrated.
MO is Research Associate at Cambridge University, Department of Psychiatry and the CLAHRC Child and Adolescent Theme.
IMG is Professor, of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge University and CLAHRC Child and Adolescent Theme Lead.
JA is a Reader in Social Work at Anglia Ruskin University on sabbatical to the CLAHRC Child and Adolescent Theme.
We would like to thank Megan Ryan, Research Assistant, CLARHC Child and Adolescent Theme, for her help compiling the table and Elaine Petch, Head of Children's Social Care, Cambridgeshire County Council, for her advice on investigating the mental well-being of looked after children.
Prefiguring passages of Norwegian Wood (like Fitzgerald, Murakami often "strips" his stories for re-use), it looks back at the time of student dissent and incorporates several other favourite themes: adolescent metamorphosis, literature, jazz clubs.
The Shangri Las weren't just leaders of the pack, they stood out from it too, adding a dark undercurrent to the typically adolescent girl group themes of kisses and crushes on songs like I Can Never Go Home Anymore.
Adolescents continued to be recruited to the study (n = 22) until interview data showed saturation of content (i.e. adolescents were repeating themes that had been discussed previously in other interviews).
