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I believe one thing that was left out of the Brooks-Gunn and Reiter piece is a discussion on how puberty effect LGBT teens. The largest group affected by teenage suicide is LGBT teens. While research pertaining to whether or not there is a genetic component to being gay is still in its infancy as well as very controversial, a mention of it would have aided to the article. If not that then at least don’t make an assumption that after girls go through puberty they start noticing the opposite gender, which was somewhere mentioned in the text.

Other than that I think that just like others have mentioned it’s hard to integrate this into a method. A teacher can be understanding and patient with students in this stage of life but most of the article pertained to the specific stage which a teacher is not going to know. While it is important for researchers to understand the stages of puberty; the important thing for teachers to understand is more of the broad field observations that those discussed at the end of the article.