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Week 1-2
Males
Developmental Tasks of Adolescents
- Serves as the foundation for responsibilities - Educational problems
during adulthood - Psychological problems
Establish Emotional and Psychological - Health
Independence
- The ability to control yourself, comfort Female
yourself, take responsibility for your actions
- Health problems
and strive for freedom to be yourself.
- To take responsibility of what you feel. - Educational problems
- Justify your feelings so others can connect. Adolescents may engage in Risky Behaviors
- Have appropriate actions for your feelings.
How does one establish this concept? - Drinking liquor
- Surround yourself around those who are - Drug use
experienced in their adolescent years. - Addiction to computer or online games
- Take what you have learned and apply it to - Premarital sex
your everyday emotional and psychological
Technology - It has become a form of escape where
life. they create an artificial world of their own devoid of any
actual contact with the rest of humanity.
Week 4
The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence Managing the Demands on Adolescents
- Choose your friends wisely
General Challenges
- Engage in healthy and dun activities
1. Sexual Relationship - Emotional difficulties - Focus on school and studies
arise because of incorrect or inadequate
Coping with Stress in Middle and Late
information concerning sex.
2. Peer Adjustment - Failure to adjust to peers
Adolescence
can lead to feelings of inadequacy and Stress
indifference.
3. Intellectual Maturation - Ways of thinking - A state of mental or emotional strain or
are developed which may be beneficial or tension resulting from adverse or very
detrimental to adolescents’ intellectual demanding circumstances.
maturation.
4. Vocational Choice - Adolescents take courses
Stressor
in school which are easy or which are required of - A chemical or biological agent,
them and not those that will be of practical value environmental condition, external stimulus,
to them in later life.
or an event that causes stress to an organism.
5. Emotional Maturity - Actions should be
socially acceptable responses to the demands of External Stressor
society.
- Include changes in temperature (heat or
Common Problems of Filipino Adolescents cold) and stressful psychological
environments such as classroom conditions
- Depression
or abusive relationships in school
- Sexual and sexuality relationship
(bullying)
- Peer acceptance
- Academic concerns Internal Stressor – Psychological problems
- Role confusion
- Career choice Stress among Adolescents
 School demand and frustrations
 Changes in their bodies
 Problems with friends and peers at school
 Unsafe living environment