Care of The Adolescent Flashcards
Is the period between 13 and 18 to 20 years, a time that serves as a transition between childhood and adulthood
ADOLESCENCE
3 Periods of Adolescence:
- Early Period– 13 to 14 years
- Middle Period– 15 to 16 years
- Late Period– 17 to 20 years
The major milestones of development in the adolescent period are the
onset of puberty and the cessation of the body growth.
Most girls are 1 to 2 inches taller than boys coming into adolescence but generally stop growing within ___ years from menarche.
3
Girls grow ____ inches in height and gain _______ pounds.
2 to 8; 15 to 55
Boys grow about _________ inches in height and gain ______ pounds during adolescence
4 to 12; 15 to 65
Growth stops with the closure of the epiphyseal lines of long bones. This occurs at about _________ years of age in females and about _________ years of age in males.
16 to 17 ; 18 to 20
Adolescents gain their second molars at about ___ years of age and the third molar (wisdom teeth) between _____________ years old.
13; 18 to 21
Third molars may erupt as early as ________ years of age
14 to 15
is the stage at which the individual first become capable of sexual reproduction
Puberty
A girl has entered puberty when she begins to
menstruate
A boy enters puberty when he begins to
produce spermatozoa
Puberty occurs between ages
11 and 14 years
The developmental task in early and middle adolescence is to form a sense of ___________ or decide who they are and what kind of person they will be.
identity
In late adolescence, the task is to form a sense of ___________ or form close relationship with persons of the opposite as with as the same sex.
intimacy
4 main areas to make gains to achieve a sense of identity
- Accepting their change body image
- Establishing a value system or what kind of persons they want to be
- Making career decisions
- Becoming emancipated from their parents
If young people do not achieve a sense of identity, they develop a sense of ________________ or can have little idea what kind of persons they are. This can lead to their having difficulty functioning effectively as adults.
role confusion
Changes in Adolescence that challenges self-esteem:
A. Changes in one’s body and physiologic functioning
B. Changes in feelings and emotional focus
C. Changes in social relationships (including relationships with both family and friends)
D. Changes in family and school expectations
The ability to form intimate relationship is strongly correlated with the sense of
trust
is feeling for another or a developed sense of intimacy in its finest form
empathy
involves this deeper level of relationships or developing a sense of compassion
or concern for people of both sexes
intimacy
Both male and female ___ years old tend to be loud and boisterous, particularly when pure of the opposite sex whose attention they would like to attract are nearby.
13 q
Many __ years old face being in love
13
____________-year-olds are often quieter and more introspective than they were the year before. They are becoming used to their changing bodies, have more confidence in themselves, and feel more self-esteem.
Fourteen
Most __ years old face being in love five or six times a year.
15
Adolescents reach a point of cognitive development termed _____________________. It begins at age _____________ years and grows on dept over the adolescent years.
FORMAL OPERATIONAL THOUGHT; 12 or 13
Piaget’s Formal Operational Stage
Metacognition
Hypothetical-Deductive reasoning
Propotional reasoning
Probabilistic reasoning
Our ability to think bout our own thought processes
Metacognition
Thoughts evolve into the ability to ponder hypothetical situations
Hypothetical-Deductive reasoning
The ability to compare a range of numbers and ratios
Proportional Thinking
The ability to use probabilities to predict likely outcomes
Probabilistic Thinking
The nutrients that are most apt to be deficient in both male and female adolescent diets are _________________________________.
iron, calcium, and zinc
for iron-deficiency anemia
Iron
for rapid skeletal growth
Calcium
necessary for sexual maturation and final body growth
Zinc
Is a self-limiting inflammatory disease that involves the sebaceous glands that empty into hair shafts mainly of the face and shoulders
Acne
The peak age for the cession (acne) to occur in girls is ________ years, for boys _______ years
14-17; 16-19
The goal of therapy for acne is threefold:
)a) decrease sebum formation, (b) prevent comedones, and (c) control bacterial proliferation
It refers to repetitive, intrusive and unwanted actions directed at an individual to gain the individuals attention or evoke fear.
stalking
It refers to the demeaning or humiliating rituals that prospective members have to undergo to join sororities, fraternities or adolescents gangs
hazing
Refers to the use of chemicals to improve a mental state or induce euphoria
substance abuse
Is deliberately self-injury with the intend to end one life
Attempted Suicide
Defined as an adolescents between the ages of 10 and 17 years who has been absent from home at least overnight without permissions of a parent or guardian
Runaways
