PD 4 Flashcards
A developmental task “arises at a certain period in our life, the successful achievement of which leads to happiness and success with later tasks; while failure leads to unhappiness, social disapproval, and difficulty with later tasks”
Developmental Tasks in Middle and Late Adolescence
Developmental Tasks in Middle and Late Adolescence
1 Adjust to sexually maturing bodies and feelings
- Develop and apply abstract thinking skills
- Develop and apply new perspective on human relationships
- Develop and apply new coping skills in areas such as decision making, problem
solving, and conflict resolution
- Identify meaningful moral standards, values, and belief systems
- Understand and convey more complex emotional experiences
- Form friendships that are mutually close and supportive
- Establish key aspects of identity
- Meet the demands of increasingly mature roles and responsibilities
- Renegotiate relationships with adults in parenting roles
Adolescents look less like children and more like physically and sexually mature adults.
Learn to manage sexual feelings and engage in healthy sexual behavior
Adjust to sexually maturing bodies and feelings
You also experienced sudden increase in your ability to think.
You are now capable to think critically and logically.
• Able to visualize their world in a new level of awareness.
Develop and apply abstract thinking skills
• You start to look at relationships in different perspectives which can help you learn how to resolve conflicts in relationships.
• Learning to “put yourself into another person’s shoes”
Develop and apply new perspective on human relationships
You acquire new thinking capabilities, employing more developed strategies ? for decision making, problem solving, and even conflict resolution
Develop and apply new coping skills in areas such as decision making, problem solving, and conflict resolution
You develop more complex understanding of morality. You tend to understand and adopt a more integrated set of values
Identify meaningful moral standards, values, and belief systems
You tend to understand more about the emotions and feelings of other people and able to give considerations about emotions being felt by others.
Understand and convey more complex emotional experiences
As adolescents, you are given the freedom to choose your circle of friends. You now start to develop peer relationships and build connections in each other’s life.
Form friendships that are mutually close and supportive
You need to understand what it really means to be male or female. You need to pass the crisis between identity and role confusion.
“What do I plan to be when I grow up
Establish key aspects of identity
It is important for you to acquire skills and knowledge that will provide you with meaningful careers as you move to adulthood.
Meet the demands of increasingly mature roles and responsibilities
Adolescents start to gain autonomy from parents. You need to communicate with your parents with regard to your need for a degree of independence as you mature
Renegotiate relationships with adults in parenting roles
Adolescents as early as possible should be taught the value of respect and responsibility
Respect and Responsibility
Successful people know and care about what’s going on in their community and around the world.
Community Involvement
Adolescents must make an effort to make their lives successful
Armed for Success
The effects this multitasking has on still- forming brains can be positive and negative
through balance.
Multi-tasking Teens
Friendship and interpersonal relationship skills
Romantic and intimate relationship skills
Financial skills
Academic and work skills
Specific skills needed away from home
Adolescents should know how to carry on a conversation with a person of any age, be good judges of character, speak up, stand up for a friend, keep a secret (or refuse to keep a secret), ignore bad behavior, confront someone who is out of line, really listen, admit fault and apologize, talk out a conflict with a friend (or roommate), say I love you, and hug.
Friendship and interpersonal relationship skills
Adolescents’ dating can help them learn how to distinguish between love and infatuation, ask someone to dance, navigate romantic feelingsI break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, cope with rejection, say no, and control the urge to advance physical relationships too quickly
Romantic and intimate relationship skills
Adolescents’ dating can help them learn how to distinguish between love and infatuation, ask someone to dance, navigate romantic feelingsI break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, cope with rejection, say no, and control the urge to advance physical relationships too quickly
Romantic and intimate relationship skills
Before leaving home, adolescents need to practice budgeting, managing money, balancing a checkbook, saving for emergencies, maintaining bank accounts, and paying bills
Financial skills
Basic responsibility, how to be punctual, how to stay on task, and how to pay attention to details are examples of these skills. Volunteering or working part time can build these skills further
Academic and work skills
Basic cooking skills, auto maintenance like learning when a car should be serviced and how to change a tire, washing and folding laundry, cleaning skills for a dorm room or apartment, and handling small household emergencies like a clogged toilet
Domestic and maintenance skills
Adolescents should be equipped to ask for help, say no, be assertive, retreat to a quiet place to re-group, talk or write about difficult problems, and to plug into a faith community for support
Self-care skills
Every adolescent needs to have healthcare knowledge to be capable of giving a medical | history, filling a prescription at a pharmacy, or knowing how to self-diagnose simple illnesses, use a thermometer, and take over-the-counter medications
Medical care skills
These include the ability to identify emotions, self- soothe, exhibit self-control of inner emotional states, wait patiently, solve problems, delay gratification, tolerate uncomfortable feelings, maintain control of behavior, and learn how to walk away from a fight and how to exit an out-of-control social situation like a gathering of friends.
Emotional and psychological skills
