Adolescence PDF

Adolescence - the time when you begin changing from a kid to an adult. - doesn’t happen overnight - in fact it happens over several years. - starts with puberty when hormone levels rise and start the body changes. - and goes on for many years until you are ready to live an independent life....

Adolescence - the time when you begin changing from a kid to an adult. - doesn’t happen overnight - in fact it happens over several years. - starts with puberty when hormone levels rise and start the body changes. - and goes on for many years until you are ready to live an independent life. The hormones that change your body can affect the way you think about many things, including the way you think about, and interact with your parents and family. self awareness isn’t a magic bullet but it is step one ” the more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in other. - Erik Erikson The Importance of Self Awareness - self awareness and introspection have the ring of a self help guru’s empty promises, but they are the starting point that leads to every improvement. Improve your self-awareness with a few exercises 1. Learn to look at yourself objectively 2. Set your own goals. Write your own manifesto 3. Keep a journal 4. perform a self-review Johari’s Window (1995) - a great way of assessing the self and know how much the individual knows the self is by asking the people around them. - Harry Ingham and Joseph Luft - someone picks a number of adjectives from a list, choosing ones they feel describe their own personality. The Self The ideal self The actual sel Self- concept Factors that shape self-concept your own observation feedback from others cultural values/cultural guidlines