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Module 2.1 Overcoming growth challenges
Learning objectives:
1. Ways to live a fulfilling life
2. Understanding different undesirable behaviours of teenagers
3. Causes and impacts of teenagers engaging in undesirable behaviours
4. Preventive and remedial strategies of undesirable behaviours
Chapter 1 Living a fulfilling life
A Ways to live a fulfilling life
Keywords:
1. resilience 抗逆力
It is an inherent potential of humans. It refers to people’s abilities to adapt to crises
or difficulties, make adjustments and recover physical and mental health.
Importance of living a fulfilling life
Helping teenagers become well-rounded and confident adults.
Assisting them in preventing and resisting undesirable behaviours.
Ways to achieve a fulfilling life
Developing a healthy lifestyle: Maintaining a balanced diet and a regular daily
routine, exercising regularly, and managing stress properly.
Having positive beliefs: Enhancing resilience, examining ourselves regularly,
finding own strengths and advantages, and facing difficulties positively.
Enhancing self-management skills: Learning time management, financial
management, emotion management, and life planning.
Building up good interpersonal relationships: Learning ways to get along with
family and peers, caring for and accommodating others from different
backgrounds.
Chapter 2 Teenagers and undesirable behaviours
A What are undesirable behaviours?
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Keywords:
1. undesirable behaviours 不良行為
It refers to the actions that violate school and social norms, discipline, or even the
laws.
2. addictive behaviours 成癮行為
It means that people overly indulge in certain substances or activities and are unable
to control themselves. These substances or activities include drugs, tobacco and
alcohol, sex, gambling, and internet use, etc.
Examples of undesirable behaviours
Bullying
Sexual harassment
Drug abuse
Smoking
Gambling
Internet addiction
Pornography addiction
Compensated dating
Naked chat
Characteristics commonly seen in those with addictive behaviours
Inability to stay away from or stop engaging in addictive substances or
behaviours,
Mental and physical discomfort when trying to reduce or quit the behaviours,
Increasing cravings for the substances or behaviours.
B Causes of undesirable behaviours
Keywords:
1. conformity 從眾
It refers to the behaviour of people giving up their own opinion and following the
majority under pressure and influence of groups. Under peer pressure, teenagers
may give in to conformity.
2. bullying 欺凌
It refers to the repeated and intentional acts of harm or oppression by a person or a
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group who hold more power or are in the majority. Bullies find satisfaction through
hurting others physically or psychologically.
3. cyber bullying 網絡欺凌
Using online media to post insulting remarks, make personal attacks, share
manipulated images, and mock or defame the victims.
4. sexual harassment 性騷擾
It refers to unwelcome sexual behaviours in physical, verbal or non-verbal forms, as
well as the use of sex for bribery or demands, making the recipient feel
uncomfortable, embarrassed, or disrespected.
5. drug abuse 吸毒
It refers to the deliberate and continuous consumption of mind-altering chemicals
without a reasonable medical purpose, bringing physical, psychological, emotional
and other form of harms, thereby endangering the life of the drug abusers.
6. internet addiction 網絡成癮
It refers to indulging in the internet which disrupts studying and daily routines, and
experiencing emotional instability when trying to reduce or stop.
7. compensated dating 援交
It means that some teenagers mistakenly think that their bodies are tools for making
money and agree to date the opposite sex or engage in sexual activities in order to
obtain money.
Personal factors
Escaping from reality: When facing setbacks, they may fail to manage or
properly vent their emotions and mistakenly engage in undesirable behaviours as
a way to escape from reality.
Satisfying personal desires: Teenagers wrongly engage in undesirable behaviours
to satisfy curiosity, challenge authority, and seek a sense of excitement.
Family factors
Imitation: If family members engage in undesirable behaviours, teenagers may
imitate them.
Lack of emotional support: If there is alienation in family relationships,
teenagers may seek other ways to fulfil their emotional needs and mistakenly
engage in undesirable behaviours.
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Peer factors
If teenagers make bad friends, under peer pressure, they may engage in
undesirable behaviours.
Media factors
Promoting inappropriate behaviours: Some unethical media displays violence or
immoral scenarios, and these contents can impact teenagers to imitate similar
actions.
Promoting materialism:
Commercial advertisements often promote wrong concepts of materialism,
leading teenagers to engage in undesirable behaviours in order to obtain money.
Examples of undesirable behaviours
Bullying: The repeated and intentional acts of harm or oppression by a person or
a group who hold more power or are in the majority.
Sexual harassment: Unwelcome sexual behaviours in physical verbal, or non-
verbal forms, as well as the use of sex for bribery or demands, making the
recipient feel uncomfortable, embarrassed, or disrespected.
Drug abuse: The deliberate and continuous consumption of mind-altering
chemicals without a reasonable medical purpose, bringing physical,
psychological, emotional, and other forms of harm.
C Impacts of undesirable behaviours
Personal well-being
Damaging physical health: Engaging in undesirable behaviours can cause
addiction and serious illnesses.
Damaging psychological health: After engaging in undesirable behaviours,
teenagers may have feelings of regret, self-blame, shame, and a decline in self-
image.
Destroying future: Engaging in undesirable behaviours can affect teenagers’
ability to focus, leading to academic setbacks.
Legal consequences: Teenagers who engage in illegal and undesirable behaviours
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such as sexual harassment and theft may face serious consequences such as
arrest, a criminal record, and even imprisonment.
Families
Destroying family relationships: Family members may feel disappointed and
disgusted , and they may arguing a lot due to dissatisfaction with the teenager’s
behaviours.
Financial burden: Engaging in undesirable behaviours may require family
members to cover legal fees, medical expenses, etc.
Friends
Destroying friendships: Leading to bad temper and abnormal behaviours, which
makes friends judge and distance themselves from teenagers who engage in
unethical and illegal conduct.
Friends getting involved: Teenagers may borrow money from their friends to
continue undesirable behaviours, and their friends may imitate their behaviours.
Society
Disrupting social order: In pursuit of money. teenagers may engage in
undesirable behaviours, including illegal activities, which can pose a risk to
social security.
Social burden: Wastage of social resources, such as legal and medical assistance.
Moreover, as teenagers are considered the future of society, their involvement in
such behaviours will have negative impacts on the human resources of society
D Preventive and remedial strategies of undesirable
behaviours
Keywords:
1. values 價值觀
It refers to the standards of judging right and wrong and making choices.
Preventing undesirable behaviours
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Reject: If someone encourages us to engage in undesirable behaviours or even
crimes, we must reject firmly.
Leave: When faced with any temptation, we should leave the scene or close web
pages containing abusive content immediately. Distance ourselves from people
who induce us into engaging in undesirable behaviours.
Seek help: Confront our problems and seek help from parents, teachers, social
workers, etc.
Remedial strategies of undesirable behaviours
Seeking help proactively: Teenagers with drug addiction can participate in drug
rehabilitation and recovery services, while those facing addictive behaviours can
seek psychological counselling. We should confront the problem and seek help
actively.
Cultivating correct values and attitudes: Understand the consequences of
engaging in undesirable behaviours enables teenagers to return to the right path.
When facing difficulties in the future, they can resist temptations with
determination.
Joining diverse activities: Explore own interests and talents, find fulfilment, and
thereby avoid undesirable behaviours. Promote good habits and attitudes towards
life.
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