Developmental Stages in Middle and Late Adolescence Objectives

Self-help skills, social skills, school skills, and play

Infancy (birth to 2 years)

Early childhood (2 to 6 years)

Pre-natal (conception to birth)

Human growth and changes across the lifespan

The main developmental stages are: infancy and early childhood (0-5 years), middle childhood (6-12 years), adolescence (13-18 years), early adulthood (19-30 years), middle adulthood (30-60 years), and later maturity (61 years and beyond).

The main focus of the adolescence stage is achieving mature relations with both sexes, achieving a masculine or feminine social role, accepting one's physique, achieving emotional independence from adults, preparing for marriage and family life, preparing for an economic career, and acquiring values and an ethical system to guide behavior.

Some of the key developmental tasks during middle adulthood include helping teenage children become happy and responsible adults, achieving adult social and civic responsibility, satisfactory career achievement, developing adult leisure time activities, relating to one's spouse as a person, accepting the physiological changes of middle age, and adjusting to aging parents.

According to the text, the early adulthood stage (19-30 years) involves selecting a mate, learning to live with a partner, starting a family, rearing children, managing a home, starting an occupation, and assuming civic responsibility.

The text does not provide details about the later maturity stage (61 years and beyond). The information provided ends at the middle adulthood stage (30-60 years).