Adolescent Years - 2016

1. THE ADOLESCENT
YEARS

2. Adolescence from Latin
adolescere, meaning
"to grow up")

3. Adolescence
divide into two
subdivisions,
early
and late
adolescence.
early
late

4. Early adolescence
extends roughly
from thirteen to
sixteen or
seventeen years.
Late adolescence
covers the
period from then
until eighteen,
the age of legal
maturity.

5. CHARACTERISTICS OF
ADOLESCENCE
 Adolescence is an important Period
- Adolescence is one of the periods when both the
immediate effects and long-term effects are
important.

6. In discussing the physical effects of
adolescence, Tanner said:
“For the majority of young persons, the
years from 12-16 are the most
eventual ones of their lives so far as
their growth and development is
concerned.”

7. Adolescence is a Transitional
Period
- Transition does not mean a break with or a change
from what has gone before but rather a passage from
one stage of development to another.

8. This means that what has happened before
will leave its mark on what happens now and
in the future. Children, when they go from
childhood-adulthood, must “put away
childish things” and they must also learn new
patterns of behavior and attitudes to replace
those they have abandoned.

9. Adolescence is a Period of
Change
- During the early adolescence, when physical changes
are rapid, changes in attitudes and behavior are also
rapid.

10. 5 changes that occur during
adolescence
1.Heightened emotionality, the intensity of
which depends on the rate at which the
physical and psychological changes are
taking place.

11. 2. -The rapid changes that accompany sexual
maturing make young adolescence unsure of
themselves, of their capacities, and of their
interests.
-They have strong feelings of insecurity which
are often intensified by the uncertain treatment
they receive from parents and teachers.

12. 3. Changes in their bodies, their interests,
and in in the roles the social group expects
them to play create new problems. To
young adolescence, these may seem more
numerous and less easily solved than any
they have had to face before. Until they
have solved their problems to their
satisfaction, they will be preoccupied with
them and with themselves.

13. 4. Interests and behavior patterns change,
so do values.
5. Most adolescence are unsure about
changes. While they want and demand
independence, they often dread the
responsibilities that go with independence
and question their ability to cope with these
responsibilities.

14. Adolescence is a Problem Age
-There are two reasons for this.
First, throughout childhood, their problems were
met and solved, in part at least, by parents and
teachers. As a result, many adolescence are
inexperienced in coping with problems alone.

15. Second, because adolescence
want to feel that they are
independent, they demand the
right of coping with their own
problems.

16. ADOLESCENCE IS A TIME OF SEARCH FOR
IDENTITY
In the early years of adolescence,
conformity to the group is still
important to boys and girls. Slowly,
they begin to crave identity and are no
longer satisfied to be like their peers
in every respect, as they were earlier.

17. ADOLESCENCE IS A TIME OF UNREALISM
- They see themselves and others as they
would like them to be rather than as they
are.
- The more unrealistic their aspirations are,
the more angry, hurt, and disappointed they
will be when they feel that others have let
them down or that they have not lived up to
the goals they set for themselves.

18. ADOLESCENCE IS THE THRESHOLD OF
ADULTHOOD
Dressing and acting like adults, they
discover, are not always enough. So they
begin to concentrate on behavior that is
associated with the adults status--- smoking,
drinking, using drugs, and engaging in sex,
for example. They believe that this behavior
will create the image they desire.

19. DEVELOPMENT TASKS OF
ADOLESCENCE
1.Learning to get along with friends of both sexes.
- To learn to look upon girls as women and boys as men;
to become an adult among adults; to learn to work with
others for a common purpose, disregarding personal
feelings; to lead without dominating.

20. 2. Accepting one’s physical body and keeping it healthy.
- To accept one’s body, to keep it healthy through
good nutrition, exercise, disease prevention, and
other health practices.

21. 3. Becoming more self-sufficient.
- To develop affection for parents without
dependence upon them; to develop respects for
older adults without dependence upon them.
4. Making decisions about marriage and
family life.
- To explore attitudes toward family life and having
children; to acquire the knowledge necessary for
home management and if desired, child
education.

22. 5.Preparing for job or career.
- To develop career/vocational goals and ways
to reach these goals; to be able to make a living.
6. Acquiring a set of values to guide
behavior.
- To develop an outlook toward life based on what is
important.
7. Becoming socially responsible.
- To participate as a responsible person with
friends at home, and in the community, to
develop personal moral values to guide
behavior.

23. PHYSICAL CHANGES DURING
ADOLESCENE
Reporter: Vaneza E. Tuvida BFE II

24. PHYSICAL CHANGES DURING
ADOLESCENES
a. Variations in Physical
Changes
b. Effects of Physical
Changes
c. Concepts about Physical
Changes

25. VARIATIONS IN PHYSICAL CHANGES
•There are individual differences
in physical changes.
• Boys start their growth spurt
later than girls. Their growth
continues longer and they are
usually taller than girls.

26. VARIATIONS IN PHYSICAL CHANGES
•Boys’ muscle grow larger than
girls’ muscle.
•Boys surpass girls in strength
and this superiority increases
with age.

27. AGE OF MATURING
•Late maturing tend to have slightly
broader shoulders and slender.
•Early-maturing tend to be stocky.
•Early-maturing girls weigh more, are
taller, and have greater weight for
their height than do late-maturing
girls.

28. B. EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL
CHANGES
• Older adolescent have time gain to
control of their enlarged bodies.
• They are motivated to use their new
strengths.
• boys – at age fourteen show greater
increase in strengths
•Girls- shows improvements then lag.
•

29. C. CONCEPTS ABOUT PHYSICAL
CHANGES
• body-cathexis/ satisfaction
•Menstruation for girls
• Acne
• Obesity
• clothing
•Physical attractiveness
•Social relationships

30. EMOTIONALITY DURING
ADOLESCENES

31. EMOTIONALITY DURING
ADOLESCENES
•It is thought as a period of “storm and
stress” – a time heightened emotional
tension resulting from the physical
changes that are taking place. Because
they are under the social pressures and
face new conditions for which they
received little if any preparation during
childhood.

32. EMOTIONALITY DURING
ADOLESCENES
•Most of them do experience
emotional instability from time to
time, which is logical consequence of
the necessity of making adjustment
to new patterns of behavior and to
new social expectations.

33. EMOTIONALITY DURING
ADOLESCENES
•Adolescents begin to
think/worry about their future.
•Their emotion are intense,
uncontrolled, and seemingly
irrational, there is an
improvement in emotional
behavior with each passing
years.

34. A. EMOTIONAL PATTERNS IN
ADOLESCENES
•Instead of having temper tantrums,
adolescents express their anger
through sulking, refusing to speak, or
loudly criticizing those who angered
them.
•Part-time job to earn money.

35. B. EMOTIONAL MATURITY
•They do not “blow up”
emotionally when others are
present, but wait for a
convenient time and place to let
off emotional steam in a socially
acceptable manner.

36. B. EMOTIONAL MATURITY
•Individual assesses a situation
critically before responding to it
emotionally instead of reacting to
it unthinkingly, as would a child
or an immature person.

37. B. EMOTIONAL MATURITY
•Emotionally mature adolescents are
stable in their emotional responses and
they do not swing from one emotion or
mood to another.
•The willingness of disclosure.

38. SOCIAL CHANGES DURING
ADOLESCENES

39. A. INCREASED PEER-GROUP
INFLUENCE
•Peer would have a greater influence on
adolescent attitudes, speech, interests,
appearance; and behavior than family has.
•Popular cloth they must wear in order to
be accepted by a group.

40. A. INCREASED PEER-GROUP
INFLUENCE
•Most adolescents want to
become individuals in their own
right and to be recognized.
•Choosing of peer and group
members.

41. B. CHANGES IN SOCIAL
BEHAVIOR
•Disliking a members of opposite sex.
•Able to judge their own peers by
observing.
•Social participation=social competency
•Self-confidence
•Tend to be more “choseey” with their
companions.

42. C. NEW VALUES IN SELECTION
OF FRIENDS
•They choose a peers that the interests and
values is the same as theirs.
•Who can understand and make them
secure.
•In whom they can confide problems and
discuss matters they feel they cannot share
to their parents and teachers.

43. SOME
ADOLESCENT
INTERESTS
Prepared by: Cyndy M. Bajao

44. As adolescence progresses,
many of the interests that were
carried over from childhood
wane are replaced by more
mature interests.

45. RECREATIONAL INTERESTS
As an adolescence progresses,
there is a breaking away from
recreation that require much
expenditure of energy and the
development of a preference for
recreations in which the
adolescent is a passive spectator.

46. RECREATIONAL INTERESTS OF
ADOLESCENTS
Games and Sports
Relaxing
Traveling
Hobbies
Dancing

47. Reading
Movies
Radio and Records
Television
Day Dreaming

48. SOCIAL INTERESTS
Depend partly on what
opportunities adolescents have
to develop such interests and
partly on how popular they are
with members of the peer
group.

49. COMMON
SOCIAL INTERESTS OF
ADOLESCENTS
-Parties - Conversations
-Drinking -Drugs
-Helping Others -World Affairs
-Criticism and Reform

50. PERSONAL INTERESTS
Interests in themselves is
the strongest interest young
adolescents have.

51. INTEREST
IN APPEARANCE
Not only clothes but
personal adornment, grooming,
attractive and sex-appropriate
physical features.

52. INTEREST IN CLOTHES
This interest is heightened
when they reach the end of their
schooling and prepare to enter
the world of work.
They realize that an attractive
appearance facilitates their
getting and holding a job.

53. INTEREST IN
ACHIEVEMENTS
Achievements bring personal
satisfaction as well as social
recognition.

54. INTEREST IN
INDEPENDENCE
This leads to many
clashes with parents and
other adults in authority.

55. INTEREST IN MONEY
Every adolescent sooner
or later discovers that
money is the key to
independence.

56. EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS
Typically, young adolescents
complain about school in general
and about restrictions,
homework, required courses,
food in cafeteria and the way the
school is run.

57. FACTORS INFLUENCING
ADOLESCENT ATTITUDES TOWARD
EDUCATION
Peer attitudes
Parent attitudes
Grades
Attitudes toward teachers, administrators,
etc.
Extracurricular activities
Social acceptance

58. VOCATIONAL INTERESTS
Boys and girls of high
school age begin to think
seriously about their
futures.

59. RELIGIOUS INTERESTS
Contrary to popular opinion,
adolescents of today are
interested in religion and feel
that it plays an important role in
their lives.

60. PATTERN OF CHANGES IN
RELIGIOUS INTERESTS
Period of Religious Awakening
Period of Religious Doubt
Period of Religious
Reconstruction

61. INTEREST IN STATUS SYMBOLS
These are prestige symbols
that tell others that the person
who has them is superior or
has a higher status I the group
than the other group
members.

62. CHANGES IN MORALITY
DURING ADOLESCENCE
Changes in Moral Concepts
-Lack of Guidance in learning how
to generalize specific concepts.
-The adolescent is subjected to at
home and in school.

63. Building a Moral Code
-They now want to build their own
moral codes on the basis of
concepts f right and wrong which
they have changed and modified
to meet their more mature level of
development.

64. Inner Control of Behaviour
-Studies of moral development have
emphasized that the only effective
way people of any age can control
their own behaviour is through the
development of a conscience, an
inner force that makes external
controls unnecessary.

65. SEX INTERESTS AND
SEX BEHAVIOR
DURING ADOLESCENCE
-Because of their growing
interest in sex, adolescent
boys and girls seek more and
more information about it.

66. DEVELOPMENT OF
HETEROSEXUALITY
-Now that they are sexually
mature, both boys and girls
begin to have new attitudes
towards members of the
opposite sex.

67. NEW PATTERNS
OF HETEROSEXUALITY
Telescoping Stages
Greater
Permissiveness

68. COMMON REASONS FOR
DATING DURING
ADOLESCENCE
Recreation
Socialization
Status
Courtship
Mate selection