LESSON 3 Developmental Stages in Middle and Late Adolescent PDF

LESSON 3: DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES IN MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to: ❑ Discuss the relationship among physiological, cognitive, psychological, spiritual, and social development to understand his or her thoughts, feelings, and behavior...

LESSON 3: DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES IN MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to: ❑ Discuss the relationship among physiological, cognitive, psychological, spiritual, and social development to understand his or her thoughts, feelings, and behavior; ❑ Evaluate his or her thoughts, feelings, and behavior’ and, ❑ Show the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in actual life situations.  Having learned the various changes that take place in your body during adolescence may have aid you in understanding better your own mental process, bodily and psychological responses regarding each of your developmental experiences.  ROBERT J. HAVIGHURST Havighurst was lecturing on child and adolescent development and was widely quoted on delinquency and on the development of American Indian children. He is known internationally as an authority in education, sociology and anthropology. A scholar in history and literature, he speaks six languages fluently.  ROBERT J. HAVIGHURST He elaborated the Developmental Tasks Theory in the most systematic and extensive manner. His main assertion is that development is continuous throughout the entire lifespan, occurring in stages, where the individual moves from one stage to the next by means of successful resolution of problems or performance of developmental tasks. ✔If the person successfully accomplishes and masters the developmental task, he feels pride and satisfaction, and consequently earns his community or society’s approval. ✔Conversely, if the individual is not successful at accomplishing a task, he is unhappy and is not accorded the desired approval by society, resulting in the subsequent experience of difficulty when faced with succeeding developmental tasks. ✔Havighurst proposed a bio-psychosocial model of development, wherein the developmental tasks at each stage are influenced by the individual’s biology (physiological maturation and genetic makeup), his psychology (personal values and goals) and sociology (specific culture to which the individual belongs). INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD (0-6) Learning to walk Learning to take solid foods and learning to talk. ❑Learning sex differences and sexual modest. ❑Acquiring concepts and language to describe social and physical reality. ❑Readiness for reading. ❑Learning to distinguish right from wrong and developing a conscience. MIDDLE CHILDHOOD (6- 12) Learning physical skills necessary for ordinary games. Building a wholesome attitude toward oneself. Learning to get along with agemates. ❑Learning an appropriate sex role. ❑Developing fundamental skills in reading, writing, and calculating. ❑ Developing concepts necessary for everyday living. ❑ Developing conscience, morality, and a scale of values. ❑ Achieving personal independence. ❑ Developing acceptable attitudes toward society. ADOLESCENCE (13-18) ❑Achieving mature relations with both sexes. ❑ Achieving a masculine or feminine social role. ❑ Accepting one’s physique.  Independence of adults. Preparing for marriage and family life. Preparing, acquiring values and an ethical system to guide behavior. Desiring and achieving socially responsibility behavior.  THE DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS IN ADOLESCENCE Growing up is never easy. You need to master various development tasks to cope with challenges and to prepare yourself for the next developmental stage. This developmental task are mastered by teenagers in a sequential order, following three stages in the adolescence period, namely; EARLY MIDDLE LATE ADOLESCEN ADOLESCEN ADOLESCEN CE CE CE  EARLY ADOLESCENCE (10- 13) Happens when you are 10-13 years old. At this stage, you experience rapid growth and various changes. Your primary development task at this stage involves adapting to biological and mental development. An adolescent needs to accept one’s physique and use one’s body effectively. ❑ Are you still awkward with your body due to rapid physical changes, you have to embrace the fact that you are physically maturing already, and you need to know how to take care of your body. And you have to accept the fact that you are already sexually capable of reproduction.  MIDDLE ADOLESCENCE (14- 16) ❑ Which is around 14-16 years old, the primary tasks of a teenager are achieving new and more mature relations with age mate of both sexes, achieving a masculine and feminine social role, and achieving emotional independence from parents and other adults. ❑Another task during the middle adolescence stage is becoming more adept in social setting and more capable of establishing intimate relationships. ❑One of the exciting features of teenage years is the attraction that you feel to another person.  LATE ADOLESCENCE (17 – 19) ❑Which is when you are roughly 17 years old. This continues until you shown a sense of consistency in your personal identity in relation to the people around you, and you have to began to form some fairly definite social roles, value system, and life  EARLY ADULTHOOD (19-30) ✔Selecting a mate. ✔ Learning to live with a partner. ✔Starting a family. ✔ Rearing children. ✔ Managing a home. ✔ Starting an occupation. ✔ Assuming civic responsibility.  MIDDLE ADULTHOOD (30- 60) Helping teenage children to 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. Adjusting to aging parent.  LATER MATURITY(61+) Adjusting to decreasing strength and health. Adjusting to retirement and reduced income. Adjusting to death of spouse. Establishing relations with one’s own age group. Meeting social and civic obligations. Establishing satisfactory living quarters.