Youth (Adolescence) Flashcards
What are some developmental tasks?
- learning to get along with the opposite gender
- accepting your body and keeping it healthy
- becoming more self- sufficient
- making decisions about marriage and family life
- preparing for job or career
- to participate as a responsible person
- becoming socially responsible
What are developmental tasks?
A developmental task is a task that arises at or about a certain period in life, unsuccessful achievement of the task leads to inability to perform tasks associated with the next period or life stage.
PIES (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Social Development)
Growth, maturing, expanding,
What is youth and adolescence?
Youth = the period between childhood and adulthood Adolescence = when a young person develops from a child into an adult
Physical Development
Changes to the body and its systems, changes in size (I.e growth), complexity (I.e increase in complexity of the nervous system) motor skills (eg. Learning to walk)
Intellectual Development
The development of processes in the brain such as thought, knowledge and memory.
Emotional Development
The development of the full range of emotions and the optimal way of dealing with and expressing them.
Social Development
The increasing complexity of behaviour patterns used in relationships
What are biological determinants?
Our body (internal) and its functions, genetics, cancer, diabetes, tissues (skin), organs (heart), systems (endocrine, nervous, digestive) and how they function.
Biological Determinants- hormonal change, genetics, body weight
Hormonal changes- diabetes (insulin), menopause (decrease of oestrogen, increased risk of weak bones (osteoporosis)
Genetics- e.g disease (cystic fibrosis), gender (breast cancer)
Body weight- e.g obesity, underweight (LBW, Low Birth Weight)
Physical Development and its impacts on emotional, intellectual and social development.
All four areas of development are interrelated.
A person’s social skills (SD) can influence the social group in which they associate. This in turn can affect social habits such as food consumption (e.g eating at food courts). Food consumption has a direct impact on (PD) as the foods eaten contribute to the development of the body’s systems such as bones, muscles and organs. An individual’s ability to communicate may assist with expressing emotions adequately (ED). Being a good listener might mean the individual learns from others (ID).
