Week 8 PowerPoint on Young Adulthood PDF

HS1003 Week 8 Young Adulthood Group assignment Please arrange yourselves into groups of 4-5 students Provide the names of the students in your group to your tutor You will be allocated a case study when your group names have been provided to your tutor https://kahoot.com/ By the end of the wo...

HS1003 Week 8 Young Adulthood Group assignment Please arrange yourselves into groups of 4-5 students Provide the names of the students in your group to your tutor You will be allocated a case study when your group names have been provided to your tutor https://kahoot.com/ By the end of the workshop you be able to …  Discuss and identify key issues relating to psychosocial development  Identify and discuss key issues of relationships  Understand attachment styles  Identify key characteristics of cognitive development (post formal thought) Psychosocial Development The Social Clock What is meant by the term “The Social Clock”? • Socially constructed timetable • Expectations set by social culture • Keeping in step with peers What are some of the common stereotypical achievements 30year-olds are “supposed to” achieve by this age? “settling down” mortgage children career Do you think this is typical today? Is this changing? By 30 you must settle down, have a mortgage, a family and a career. Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, “Back in my day” – comparing Millennials with earlier generations 20/10/2022, https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/back-my-day-comparing-millennials-earlier-generations Erikson In your own words explain Erikson’s crisis between intimacy and isolation Erikson might say … • This stage of life is about forming intimate, loving relationships with other people • This leads to fulfilling relationships through life • Struggles with this conflict can lead to loneliness and isolation • Intimacy is more than just sexual connection, rather about having close, loving relationships • Intimacy can include romantic and sexual partners but also close, enduring riendships Intimacy is the capacity to commit oneself to concrete affiliations and partnerships and to develop the ethical strength to abide by such commitments even though they may call for significant sacrifices and compromises Read the following article ‘Situationships’: Why Gen Z are embracing the grey area How might Erikson explain this type of young adult relationship? What are the factors described that have lead to this type of relationship being more prevalent in today’s society? Friendships What is the role of friendships in early adulthood? How important are they? What are they based on? Are friendships more important to current generations or previous generations? Why? What is the role of friendships in early adulthood? How important are they? • Increase in importance as become independent from families What are they based on? • Shared history • Used for support • Similar lifestyle (e.g. Interests, work patterns, life stages) • Shared activity (enjoyment) • Sharing and problem solving • Companionship • Practical support • Self-esteem • Friendships can be more stable and presented as more important than romantic relationships • Identity Are friendships more important to current generations or previous generations? Why? • Delayed marriage etc. means that friends are a vital source of intimacy and support for longer • Greater mobility (people move away from families) and therefore friends act as surrogate families • Greater autonomy Love in Adulthood What are the three components of love developed by Sternberg? Read the blogpost from Robert Sternberg and briefly explain his theory as well as each component Passion • intense, falling in love) • expression of desires and needs for self-esteem, nurturance, affiliation, dominance, submission and sexual fulfilment Intimacy • giving and receiving mutual understanding • feelings that promote closeness, bondedness and connectedness (e.g. self-disclosure, sharing, emotional support) Decision / Commitment: • short-term commitment to love • long-term commitment (commitment to maintain love). Provide a definition for the following types of love • • • • • • • • Non-love Liking Infatuated love Empty love Romantic love Companionate love Fatuous love Consummate or complete love Types of Love TYPES OF LOVE DEFINITION Non-love refers simply to the absence of all three components of love Liking results when one experiences only the intimacy component of love in the absence of the passion and decision/commitment components Infatuated love results from the experiencing of the passion component in the absence of the other components of love Empty love emanates from the decision that one loves another and is committed to that love in the absence of both the intimacy and passion components of love Romantic love derives from a combination of the intimacy and passion components Companionate love derives from a combination of the intimacy and decision/commitment components of love Fatuous love results from the combination of the passion and decision/commitment components in the absence of the intimacy component Consummate or complete love results from the full combination of all three components Watch the clips provided in your workbook Using Sternberg’s theory of love, consider which of the three elements of love Barney is struggling with in comparison to Cam and Mitchell in the first clip? Attachment Styles Young adults’ approaches to love can be compared with infant’s patterns of attachment. Three styles of Infant Attachment (according to Mary Ainsworth) Avoidant Secure Anxiousresistant (ambivalent) Attachment Styles Read the stories in your worksheets and underline the key words which indicate particular attachment styles Attachment Styles Alicia I am comfortable without close relationships. I value my autonomy and freedom to do what I want when I want. It is very important to me to feel independent and self-sufficient, so I prefer not to depend on others or have others depend on me. Attachment Styles Alicia Avoidant Attachment I am comfortable without close relationships. I value my autonomy and freedom to do what I want when I want. It is very important to me to feel independent and self-sufficient, so I prefer not to depend on others or have others depend on me. Attachment Styles Billie It is easy for me to become emotionally involved with others and to feel close to them. I am comfortable depending on people and having them depend on me. I like being with people, and I don’t worry about other not accepting me. At the same time, I do not worry about being alone. Attachment Styles Billie Secure Attachment It is easy for me to become emotionally involved with others and to feel close to them. I am comfortable depending on people and having them depend on me. I like being with people, and I don’t worry about other not accepting me. At the same time, I do not worry about being alone. (demonstrating balance between intimacy and autonomy) Attachment Styles Carol I want to become completely emotionally intimate with others, but I often find that others are reluctant to get as close as I would like. I find it difficult to trust others completely or to depend on them. I am uncomfortable being without close relationships, but I sometimes worry that others do not value me as much as I do them. Attachment Styles Carol Anxious-Resistant I want to become completely emotionally intimate with others (tendency to seek total intimacy), but I often find that others are reluctant to get as close as I would like. I find it difficult to trust others completely or to depend on them. I am uncomfortable being without close relationships, but I sometimes worry that others do not value me (fear rejection) as much as I do them. Cognitive Development What is Post-formal Thought? The ability to deal with uncertainty, inconsistency, contradiction, imperfection and compromise Ability to see ‘shades of grey’ Why do we need to develop this type of thinking in order to work effectively as a health professional? Knowledge is relative, nonabsolute Accept contradictions Synthesise contradictions Characteristics of post formal thought You are now able to …  Discuss and identify key issues relating to psychosocial development  Identify and discuss key issues of relationships  Understand attachment styles  Identify key characteristics of cognitive development (post formal thought) Questions?