# Toward Emotional Maturity

Narrated by a female voice, this film recalls incidents experienced by an 18-year-old woman that lead her to decide to avoid what for her is premature sexual activity with a young man. A high-school philosophy teacher demonstrates emotional responses by opening two wooden boxes, the first with a snake and the second with two puppies. From the index card in the can: "Dramatized incidents depict the emotional growth of an 18-year-old girl as she faces a decision that involves her feelings for her parents and a boy whom she likes very much. The girl reviews episodes from her early life in which love, fear, and hate were not always controlled, and is then able to make a decision. 1. Adolescence. 2. Emotions." "Correlated with the book 'Psychology for Living' by Herbert Sorenson and Marguerite Malm." From the Psychology For Living series.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1955
- By: McGraw-Hill, Knickerbocker Productions, Inc.
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/200460_Toward_Emotional_Maturity)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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