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Adolescence: Exploring the Transition to Adulthood

Delve into the theories and challenges of adolescence as we examine Anna Freud's statements and compare them to the experiences of today's teens. Explore the physical, social, and personal changes that mark this stage of development, including puberty, self-consciousness, and the formation of identity. Discover the importance of peer groups and the influence of parents on adolescents. Gain insight into the development of gender roles and navigate the complexities of social responsibility. Prepare for the future by acquiring the necessary skills and values for a successful adulthood.

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Adolescence: Exploring the Transition to Adulthood

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  1. Chapter 4 Adolescence

  2. Adolescence Read outloud exploring psychology… Do Anna Freud’s statements written over 50 years ago describe teens today?

  3. What is adolescence? The transition from childhood to adulthood

  4. What marks the admission into adulthood? Rites of passage ceremonies or rituals that mark admission into adulthood

  5. Theories of adolescence Stanley Hall Margret Meade….

  6. Do Hall and Mead agree? • Hall = storm and stress • Meade = continuous process childhood/adolescence/adulthood

  7. What 3 task must adolescence master • Accepting your physical make up and developing gender roles • Developing relationships with peers • Developing emotional independence from parents and other adults • Developing $ independence • Deciding/preparing for a career

  8. 6. Develop cognitive (THINKING) skills and tools necessary for social success 7. Understanding and achieving socially responsible behavior 8. Prepare for marriage and family 9. Acquiring values that are harmonious and appropriate…for what????

  9. What marks the end of childhood? PUBERTY SELF CONSCIOUSNESS???

  10. Physical Changes Growth spurts at different rates Changes in height and weight Development of private parts and hair Muscle mass increases vs fatty tissue Voice changes Menarche/super menarche

  11. Sexual Development 1. What is your belief about “friends with benefits” 2. Development of attitudes towards sex Yes / NO / Abstinence 3. What are your role expectations???? Double standard?? What’s good for the goose is good for the gander!!!!! 4. What are your FEARS…..

  12. Personal Development 4:2 How does an adolescence thinking differ from a child? More abstract thinking and reasoning

  13. PIAGET’S FORMAL OPERATION STAGE What is RATIONALIZATION…UGH! Elkind on PG 103..comments?

  14. ERIKSONS IDENTITY CRISIS IS THERE SUCH A THING?

  15. Erikson’s Theory of the Identity Crisis WHO AM I??

  16. Resolving the crisis.. What do you need to develop to resolve the “crisis”? confidence, trust, feeling of competence?

  17. Marcia View of Identity Crisis

  18. Social Learning Theory /Bandura • Bandura feels adolescence is one part of a continuous process of development that emphasis interaction

  19. One of the principal developments of adolescents is to become independent of their families • In becoming independent, the role of peers becomes important • Adolescents need and use each other to define who they are!

  20. Social Development 4:3

  21. In an effort to answer “Who am I” adolescents form cliques • Cliques - small, exclusive groups of people within a larger group • What cliques can you identify?

  22. Groups help adolescents • achieve self-confidence • develop a sense of independence • clarify values • experiment with new roles

  23. Drawback to cliques • fear of dislike can lead to conformity • conformity - acting according to some specific authority • group pressure

  24. Both peer groups and parents have influence • peer groups set standards on fashion, music, and school related issues • parents have greater influence in areas of marriage, religion, and education plans

  25. Adolescence can present some temporary psychological difficulties • illusion of invulnerability • depression and suicide • eating disorders

  26. GENDER ROLES 4:4 Do you have a gender schema ? If so, what is it?

  27. Gender differences.. • Are gender difference real or learned? • Is one more superior? • Nature and nurture influence gender.. Roles are a changing…

  28. Ponder Why is identity significant to the adolescent. During adolescence, the individual struggles to arrive at an integrated sense of self or identity. According to Erik Erikson, this occurs during a period known as the identity crisis. Other psychologists argue that this period need not be marked by crisis.

  29. What conflicts do adolescents face? • acquiring a masculine or feminine gender role, • developing appropriate relations with peers • becoming emotionally independent, • deciding on a vocation, • achieving socially responsible behavior, • acquiring values that are harmonious and appropriate.

  30. Problems adolescents develop as a result of abstract thinking and immaturity. • finding fault with authority figures, • argumentativeness, • indecisiveness, • apparent hypocrisy in living up to their ideals, • self-consciousness, • invulnerability.

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