Personal Development – Senior High School

Quarter 1, Learner’s Packet 5

Developmental Tasks and Challenges of Adolescence

Learner’s Name: Grade and Section:

___________________________________ ________________________

Teacher’s Name: Date Submitted:

___________________________________ ________________________

I. Introductory Concept

In this module you will make a list, identify and categorize some actions of an
adolescent. Also, in this module, you will know about the developmental tasks and
challenges of a person.

II. Learning Competencies

Discuss developmental tasks and challenges being experienced during

adolescence. (EsP-PD11/12DS-Ic-3.1)

III. Learning Activities

ACHIEVEMENTS
Directions: Check the tasks that you think you have already finished as an
adolescent.
___1. Achieving mature relations with both sexes
___ 2. Achieving a masculine or feminine social role
___3. Accepting one’s physique

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 ___ 4. Achieving emotional independence of adults
___ 5. Preparing for marriage and family life
___6. Preparing for an economic career
___7. Acquiring values and an ethical system to guide behavior
___8. Desiring and achieving socially responsibility behavior

Processing Questions:
1. Being in Grade 11, what are the tasks expected of you? Rate yourself from 1-10
(10 as the highest).

2. As you are in Grade 11, you are in the stage of transition, right? From high school
to college, from being an adolescent to young adult. How do you feel about this
transition? What is your turning point?

3. Do you think you are ready in this transition which may mean more
responsibilities and greater accountability? If no, what are the expected tasks
you need to work on? If yes, what are the ways so you can better plan for the
future.

IV. Deepening
GRADUAL CHANGES
The Summary of Developmental task
Early
Adolescence Middle Adulthood Later Maturity
Adulthood
(13-18 (31 – 60) (61+)
(19 – 30)
* Achieving mature * Selecting a * Helping teenage * Adjusting to
relations with both mate children to become decreasing
sexes happy and strength and
* Learning to responsible adults. health
*Achieving a masculine live with a
or feminine social role partner * Achieving adult * Adjusting to
social and civic retirement and
* Accepting one’s * Starting a responsibility reduced income
physique family
* Adjusting to
death of spouse

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 *Achieving emotional * Rearing a * Satisfactory
independence of adults child career and * Establishing
achievement relations with
* Preparing for marriage * Managing a one’s own age
and family life home * Developing adult group
leisure time
* Preparing for an * Starting an activities * Meeting social
economic career occupation * Relating to one’s and civic
spouse as a person obligations
* Acquiring values and * Assuming
an ethical system to civic * Accepting the * Establishing
guide behavior responsibility physiological satisfactory living
changes of middle quarters
* Desiring and age
achieving socially
responsibility behavior * Adjusting to aging
parent

✓ The developmental tasks theory of Robert J. Havighurst elaborated 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 next by means of successful resolution of problems or
performance of developmental tasks.

✓ According to Havighurst, at the stage of adolescence, you must achieve and

prepare the adulthood stage. He emphasizes that an adolescent must already
achieve mature relations with both sexes, masculine or feminine social role,
accepting one’s physique, achieving emotional independence of adults, preparing
for marriage and family life and for an economic career, acquiring values and an
ethical system to guide behavior, desiring and achieving social responsibility
behavior. All of these are the transitions of an adolescent.

✓ Some risk factors of an adolescent:

1. Drugs 8. Crime
2. Alcohol 9. Violence
3. Unsafe sex
4. Teenage pregnancy and
parenting
5. School underachievement
6. Failure and dropout
7. Delinquency

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 ✓ Jeffrey C. Miller, Ph.D. has a point of view about the developmental challenges
of adolescent/ teenagers. He gave a brief summary of the most significant
developmental issues that an adolescent face:

1. Physical Transformation
Probably the most obvious changes are physical; the teenager or
adolescent is literally transforming from a child to an adult physically. A
transformation that is disorienting to both the teenage and for everyone around
him/her.

2. Sexual development
The teenagers or adolescent years witness the emergence of sexuality,
with all of its hormonal changes, all of its ups and downs and all of its emotional
complications.

3. Separation from parents

It is on a crash course of how to live life with primary dependence on
him/herself rather than being guided, taught and supported by parents.

4. Identity v. role confusion

With growing independence comes the whole challenge of a teenager or
an adolescent learning who he/she is and what role he/she will be playing in
the world regarding friends, family, jobs and etc.

5. Social issues/group identity v. individuality

With growing adulthood, comes the challenge of learning what groups
and communities a person wants to be part of, and how those groups and
communities impact their own sense of individuality.

6. Growing responsibility
A substantial challenge for a teenager or an adolescent is learning to
bear the personal responsibility of living a healthy, productive, compassionate
and caring adult life.
These are some of the developmental challenges facing by an
adolescent. There are many challenges, but these things will help you a lot to
overcome some of those most significant challenges of an adolescent or a
teenager. Now you know why some teenager or adolescent can’t face the
developmental task, it is because of the challenges. It is up to you dear learner.
You are the one who can overcome those challenges.

V. Reflection (no need to write the answer, just self-reflect)

Am I achieving my femininity / masculinity?

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 References

Source: Book/Journal/Module

Marzo, M. (2021). Developmental Tasks and Stages of Adolescence: Self-Learning

Module in Personal Development, Quarter 1.

Personal Developmental, 21 – 23.

Personal Developmental, Teacher’s Guide, First Edition 2016.

Source: Website content

Jeffmillerphd.com/developmental-challenges-of-adolescentsteenagers/

Prepared by:

FRANK T. TURALDE
EPS, EsP
SDO Catanduanes

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