Adolescence- Between Childhood

and Adulthood
OBJECTIVES

• Classify various developmental tasks

according to developmental stage

• evaluate one's development in comparison

with persons of the same age/group

• list ways on how to become a resposible

adolescent prepared for adult life
Do You Still
Remember Your
13th Birthday?
• At this age, is the start of having a
physical changes in our body.

• This is also a beginning of adolescent

stage of the human development.

• As adolescents develop physically, they

also develop cognatively,
psychologically, socially and spiritually
These are the Adolescence that may
be classified as follows:
(Corpus, et. al,. 2010)

• Early Adolescence - ages around 10 to 13

• Middle Adolescence - ages 14 to 16
• Late Adolescence - ages 17 to 20
Feist and Rosenburg (2012)
• Early adolescence is 11 or 12 years old.

• Late adolescence is about 18 years old.

• In America, this ise the age on how they

define young adulthood.
Erickson's Eight Stages
of Personality
Development
 CONFLICT OR
INFLUENTIAL FAVORABLE UNFAVORABLE
STAGE FIGURE
CRISIS TO BE
RESULTS RESULTS
RESOLVED

TRUST VS. BEING ABLE TO MISTRUSTING

INFANCY PARENTS
MISTRUST TRUST OTHERS OTHERS

FAILURE WILL
DEVELOPS SELF
AUTONOMY RESULT IN
EARLY CONTROL AND
PARENTS VS. SHAME FEELINGS OF
CHILDHOOD ABILITY TO
AND DOUBT SHAME AND
COOPERATE
DOUBT

LATE PESSIMISM
DEVELOPS
CHIDHOOD PARENTS AND INITIATIVE AND FEAR OF BEING
SENSE OF
TEACHERS GUILT WRONGLY
(PRE-SCHOOL) PURPOSE
JUDGED
LEARNS HOW LOSS OF HOPE
PARENTS AND INDUSTRY VS. TO DEVELOP, AND DEVELOPS
SCHOOL AGE
TEACHERS INFERIORITY CREATE AND FEELING OF
MANIPULATE INFERIORITY
 FEELING OF
TEACHERS AND IDENTITY VS. PLANS TO CONFUSION
ADOLESCENCE SIGNIFICANT ROLE ACTUALIZE AND ANTI-
OTHERS CONFUSION ONES ABILITIES SOCIAL
BEHAVIOR

DEVELOPS IMPERSONAL
YOUNG INTIMACY VS.
FRIENDS STRONG OR WEAK
ADULTHOOD ISOLATION
RELATIONSHIP RELATIONSHIPS

CREATES OR
GENERATIVITY NURTURES SHALLOW
ADULTHOOD COMMUNITY VS. THINGS THAT INVOLVEMENT
STAGNATION WILL OUTLAST IN THE WORLD
THEM

ACCEPTANCE OF MAY RESULT IN

INTEGRITY VS. WORTH AND REGRET,
MATURITY COMMUNITY
DESPAIR UNIQUENESS BITTERNESSS
OF OWNS LIFE OR DESPAIR
The Eight stages of development
defines:
• A stage of human development with a crisis or a
conflict.

• The stages are borderless and flowing, not

stictly fixed and definite.

• An adoescent who is experiencing identity

issues may also be experiencing intimacy issues
or maybe struggling with inferiority depending on
how they were able to resolve each stage crisis.
 Adolescence:
Identity vs. Role
Confusion
 Identity is the concept of an individual about
himself and is often reffered to as “self-
identity” molded though various interactive
experiences around himself.

It is also a belief of what an individual thinks

about himself.
Role Confusion

• Role confusion is a negations of self

identity, in a sense that there is confusion
over one's self-concept or the absence or
lack of such a concept.

• It affects Relationship with others because

there is no clear definition of what he is
and how he relates to others.
CHANGES DURING ADOLESCENCE
• Adolescence physiological transitioning is very
pronounced at this stage.

• At this stage, the brain also continuos to develop.

Cognitive growth among adolescents is usually maked
the way they are able to comprehend abstract
concepts such as freedom and human rights.

• This stage young men and women ask questions about

the status and about the way things happen.

• Idealism is very prominent among adolescents.

• Feist and Rosenburg (2012)

- Reckless behavior of adolescents are

sometimes attributed to the development of
their brains since their ability to make plans
and see consecquences of their actions are
not yet fully developed unlike in adults.
• Experimentation is a common activity
among adolescents as they search for
their identity.

• they also mimic negative behaviors like

smoking and drinking which are percieve
as marks of manhood in some cultures like
ours.

• Different clothing and fashion styles are

often most obvious ways used by
adolescents in expressing their
independence.
• In this digital era, online friendships abound
thanks to social networking sites such as
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and much more.

• online games are also popular and the need

to develop abstract reasoning that is built in
this game.

• Sexual experimentation also happens in this

stage.
Adolescence and Social Behavior
• Every culture has a representation of how
their adolescent population behaved over
the-decades.
• For example, in the USA, the
term"teenage rebellion" was popularized in
the1950s with thebeatnik movement at its
forefront. Popular rebel teen stars such as
James Dean and writer Jack Kerouac
became the icons of that era.
• local teenagers copied their American
counterparts It as the era of the "Lo Waistt
Gang where actors wore jeans and
pompadour hairstyles slopped with
pomade
• 1960s and 1970s, it was the hippie
movement and flower power that became
the trademark of the generation of
adolescents and young adults.
• Social issues also became the popular
themes of this era, with the anti-war
movement against the war in Vietnam.
• The gathering at Woodstock in upstate
New York where the hippies got together
for three days amidst music, drugs, and
sex also became one of the enduring
symbols that immortalized this generation.
• On the local scene, social and political
activists, mostly high school and college
students, were in the midst of the politic
turmoil that dominated the Philippines
before and during martial law.
• Filipinos went up to the hills of Antipolo,
Rizal to hold their own version of
Woodstock, dubbed as the Antipolo Rock
Festival held in 1970.
The adolescents who were born 1980's to
2000's became known as the millennials
and this generation was born in the midst
of technology boom

• hence, they were also referred to as

"digital natives" versus the previous
generation who were referred to as "digital
immigrants," having migrated from non
digital to digital technology
• The social lives of the millennials are
driven by technology and their social
interactions are dictated by their use of
social networks, mobile phones, and other
gadgets.
Skills and Task Appropriate for middle and
late adolescence
1. Adjust to sexually matring bodies and feelings-
being aware of bodily changes happening ,managing
sexual feelings and engaging in healthy sexual
behavior.

2. Develope and apply abstract thinking skills-

effectively understand and coordinate abstract ideas,
thinking out possibilties , trying out theories , planning
ahead , reflecting on how and what they are thinking , and
coming out with their own philosophies.

3. Develop and apply a new perspective on human

relationships- developing the capacity of compassion.
4. Develop and apply new coping skills in
areas- decision making, problem solving and
conflict resolution that will help them engage
in more creative strategies.

5. Identify meaningful moral standards,

values and belief systems- adolescents
develop more complex understanding of
morality justice and compassion.

6. UNDERSTAND EXPRESS MORE COMPLEX

EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES- becoming more in touched
with their emotion.
7. FORM FRIENDSHIP THAT ARE
MUTUALLY CLOSE AND SUPPORTIVE

8.ESTABLISH KEY ASPECTS OF

IDENTITY

9.MEET THE DEMAND OF

INCREASINGLY MATURE ROLES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES

10.RENEGOTIATE RELATIONSHIP WITH

ADULTS IN PARENTING ROLE
Fillpino authors Corpuz et al. (2010) in
their book,

Child and Adolescent Development,

identified similar developmental tasks
a Filipino adolescent needs to learn.
1) Developing occupational skills

• skills that can help the adolescent develop

responsibility as a preparation for gainful
employment ahead
2) Self-reliance

• the ability to identify their own skills and

knowledge, capabilities, and resources to
engage in meaningful activities and not
rely too much on others.
3)Ability to manage their finances

• Be able to discern what is the difference

between "wants" and "needs,
• be able to learn self-control when handling
their finances.
4) Social responsibility

• adolescents should be able to see beyond

themselves, take into consideration the
greater community around them, and see
their role in improving and developing
these communities, serving as change
agents. -
5) Mature work

• develop pride in what they do and raise

standards of excellence in the quality of
their work.
6) Personal responsibility

• to be fully responsible for them, and refrain

from putting blame on others for the
results of their decisions and actions.
7) Positive attitude

• In the book, The Prophet by the Lebanese

poet, Kahlil Gibran, he wrote, "Work is
Love made Visible." Developing a healthy
and positive attitude toward work means
that we see work as an expression of our
love for people who are important to us,
including ourselves,
CHILD AND ADOLESCENT
DEVELOPMENT
1. Developing occupational skills
2. Self - Reliance
3. Ability to manage their finances
4. Social Responsibility
5. Mature work orientation
6. Personal Responsibility
7. Positive attitude towards work
Additional Developmental Task and Skills a
Filipino Adolescent should acquire
1. Being courageous in standing up and being
different from your friends.
2. Developing Self Esteem
3. Being true to yourself and avoiding the
tendency to please others.
4. Learning how media and advertising try to
influence your thinking and feelings.
5. Becoming aware, critical and being involve
with social issues.
6. Embracig a healthy lifestyle
7. Developig your spirituality.