Teenage Stress Stress can be a problem for anybody at any age, but teens face specific kinds of stress. This term paper discusses those stresses. Stress is a part of all our lives. Before this paper goes into detail listing the causes of teenage stress, it is first important to discuss what exactly stress is. Once the term “stress” is discussed, the causes of teenage stress will then be focused on. According to a high school psychology textbook, stress is "a particular pattern of disturbing psychological reactions that occur when an environment event threatens important motives and taxes one's ability to cope." In plain English, stress i