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Personal Development in Adolescence

This document discusses various aspects of personal development, including developing self-confidence, managing stress, problem-solving skills, creativity, and generating ideas. It also covers developmental stages from adolescence through old age. Some key points include: 1) Developing self-confidence requires learning yourself and your capabilities, having a positive attitude, and believing that achieving goals through right actions leads to success. 2) Managing stress, problem-solving skills, creativity, and generating ideas can help achieve goals and combat obstacles. 3) There are multiple developmental stages from adolescence through old age, each with changes in physical, cognitive, social, and other areas of development.
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Personal Development in Adolescence

This document discusses various aspects of personal development, including developing self-confidence, managing stress, problem-solving skills, creativity, and generating ideas. It also covers developmental stages from adolescence through old age. Some key points include: 1) Developing self-confidence requires learning yourself and your capabilities, having a positive attitude, and believing that achieving goals through right actions leads to success. 2) Managing stress, problem-solving skills, creativity, and generating ideas can help achieve goals and combat obstacles. 3) There are multiple developmental stages from adolescence through old age, each with changes in physical, cognitive, social, and other areas of development.
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Reviewer in Personal Development TO DEVELOP SELF- CONFIDENCE

MODULES 3-4 - You need to learn yourself and your


capabilities
- Gain positive attitude
MODULE 3 - Believe that by performing right actions and
achieving right goals will certainly reach
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES IN MIDDLE AND LATE
success.
ADOLESCENCE
Persistence
- It makes you keep moving forward
Personal Effectiveness
regardless of emerging obstacles, problems,
- Means making use all the persona laziness, bad emotional state, etc.
resources- talents skills, energy and time - It reduces the costs of overcoming obstacles
- To enable you to achieve life goals. - It can be developed with the help of self-
- Your knowledge of yourself and how you discipline exercise.
manage yourself impact directly
Managing Stress
Experience
- It helps combat stress that arises in daily life
- Includes knowledge and skill that we from the environment and other people.
acquire in the process of cognitive
STRESS ARISES
Knowledge
- From uncertainly in an unknown situation
- Is required for setting goal - When a lack of information creates risk of
- Defining an action plan to achieve them and negative consequences of your actions.
risk assessment
Problem- Solving Skills
Skills
- They help cope with the problems
- Determine whether real actions performed encountered with a lack of experience
in accordance with the plan. - It increases efficiency by adopting new ways
- If the same ability is used many times in the of achieving goals
same situation then it becomes a habit.
Creativity
- It allows you to find extraordinary ways to
 DETERMINATION carry out specific actions
 SELF- CONFIDENCE
Generating Ideas
 PERSISTENCE
 MANAING STRESS - It helps you achieve goals using new,
 PROBLEM- SOLVING SKILLS original, unconventional ideas
 CREATIVITY Idea
 GENERATING IDEAS
- Is a mental image of an object formed by
Determination the human mind
- It allows you to focus only on achieving a Human Mind
specific goal without being distracted by
less important things - Can be changed before being implemented
- May be developed with the help of self- in the real world
discipline exercise. UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPMENT, PROCESS,
Self- confidence IDEAS, AND TASK

- a result of getting aware of your actions and DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES


their consequences. Human Development
- Are manifested in speech, appearance,
dressing, gait and physical condition. - Focuses on human growth and changes
across the lifespan including physical,
cognitive, social, intellectual, perceptual, - resulting of changes in ways of feeling,
etc. thinking and acting.
Study of Human Development Early Adulthood
- Is essential to understanding how human - 18-40 years old
learn, mature and adapt. - Age of adjustments to new patterns of life
- such as spouse, parental and bread winner
Humans
Middle Age
- Go through various stages of development
- 40 years to retirement
Human Being
- transition age when adjustments to initial
- is either in the state of growth or decline physical and mental decline are
- but either condition imparts change experienced

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE Old Age

 PRE-NATAL - retirement to death


 INFANCY - retirement age when increasingly rapid
 EARLY CHILDHOOD physical and mental decline are
 LATE CHILDHOOD experienced
 ADOLESCENCE Havighurst Developmental task during life span
 EARLY ADULTHOOD
 MIDDLE AGE - that development is continuous throughout
 OLD AE the entire lifespan
- where the individual moves from one stage
Pre- Natal to the next
- Conception to birth - means of successful resolution of problems
- Age when hereditary endowments and sex Robert J. Havighurst
are fixed and all the body features
- he proposed a bio- psychosocial model of
Infancy development
- Birth to 2 years - physiological maturation and genetic make-
- Foundation age when basic behaviour is up
organized - personal values and goals
- Many ontogenetic maturation skills are Developmental tasks
developed.
- each stage are influenced by the individuals
Early Childhood biology
- 2-6 years old
- Pre- gang age
- Language and elementary reasoning are MODULE 4
acquired Aspects of Personal Development
Late Childhood
- 6-12 years old Adolescence
- gang and creativity stage
- when self-help skills, social skills, school - is a period of life with specific health and
skills, and play are developed developmental needs
- also a time to develop knowledge and skills
Adolescence - learn to manage emotions and
- puberty to 18 years old relationships, and acquire attributes and
- transition age from childhood to adulthood abilities
- when sex maturation and rapid physical - changes will occur to a child when it comes
development occur to interacting with family, friends, and peers
Checklist of Adolescent Period
 self - mental health challenge that makes people
 family feel very sad all the time
 community
Aggressive Behaviour
Self
- any behaviour or act
- SELF ESTEEM - aimed at harming a person or animal or
- MOOD damaging physical property.
- BODY IMAGE - acts of physical violence, shouting,
- SEXUALITY swearing, etc,

Self Esteem Mania

- parental support - Is a condition of abnormally elevated,


- peer influence extreme changes in your mood or emotions
- all about how much you feel you are worth
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- and how much you feel other people value
you. - A type of behaviour mostly diagnosed in
- it is important childhood
- uncooperative, defiant, and hostile towards
Mood
peers, parents, teachers, and other
- depression, suicidal ideation, and behaviors authority figures
- are more troubling to others than they are
Body Image
to themselves
- physical appearance
Bipolar Disorder
- weight
- is a mental health condition
Sexuality
- characterized by extreme shifts in mood
- puberty, sexual behaviour, prevention of and energy levels
sexually transmitted diseases lke HIV/AIDS, - from the highs of mania to the lows in
Sexual identity, pregnancy mood

Family Pervasive Development Disorder

- increased independence, increased - group of disorders characterized by delays


influence of peers ,family conflict friends in the development of socialization and
communication skills
Community
THE PASSAGE TO ADULTHOOD: CHALLENGES OF
- school ( academic success, homework,
LATE ADOLESCENCE
extracurricular activities, high school to
college or works Physical Development
- risk factor ( substance use, violent
- girls have completed the physical changes
behaviours, exposure to violence)
related to puberty at 15
OPPORTUNITIES FOR EARLY IDENTIFICATION AND - boys are still maturing and gaining strength,
INTERVENTION muscle mass, and height

- Anxiety problems and disorders Emotional Development


- Child Maltreatment
- is self- involved
- Learning problems and disorders
- seeks privacy and time alone
- Mood disorders
- is concerned about physical and sexual
- Oppositional and aggressive behaviour
attractiveness
Depression - may complain that parents prevent him or
her from doing things independently
- is a mood disorder
- experiences of intimate relationships
- causes a persistent feeling of sadness and
loss of interest Social Development
- can interfere with daily activities
- is more aware of social behaviours of - we might start to compare ourselves with
friends others
- friends become more important - can affect how we feel about ourselves and
- starts to have more intellectual interests our bodies even as we grow into our teens
- explores romantic and sexual behaviours
Families and School
with others.
- shifts in relationship with parents from - can sometimes influence our body image
dependency and subordination to one - some parent or coaches might be too
focused on looking a certain way for a
Mental Development
sports team
- becomes better able to set goals and think - family members might struggle with their
in terms of the future own body image and criticize their kids
- has a better understanding of complex - can influence a person’s self- esteem,
problems especially if they’re sensitive to other
- starts to develop more ideas peoples comments.
/* Each child has unique combination of genes, Common Eating Disorders
brain development, and environment… etc
 anorexia nervosa
LESSON #2  bulimia nervosa
 avoidant/restrictive food intake
MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL BEING IN MIDDLE
 binge eating
AND LATE ADOLESCENCE
 body image disorders
 food phobias
/* As your body changes, so does your image of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
yourself
- are the most common eating disorders
/* but when you get stuck on negatives it can
really bring down your self- esteem Binge Eating

Why are self- esteem and body image important? - consumption of large quantities of food in a
short period of time
- they are realistic
- find friends that like and appreciate them Avoidant/Restrictive food intake Disorder
for who they are - also known as “EXTREMELY PICKY EATING”
High Self-Esteem - characterized by highly selective eating
habits, disturbed feeding patterns or both
- feel more in control of their lives and know - often results of significant nutrition and
their own strengths and weaknesses energy deficiencies
Body Image - failure to gain weight

- is how you view your physical self Anorexia


- for people in their early teens, it can be closely - real fear of weight gain and a distorted view
linked to self- esteem of their body size and shape
Puberty and Development - can become dangerously underweight
- dieting, fasting, or excessive exercise
- struggle with their self- esteem and body - obsession in terms of calorie counting or
image when they begin puberty trying to eat as little as possible
- body goes through many changes - may start binge eating and purging
- combined with wanting to feel accepted by
your friends, it means it can be tempting to Bulimia
compare ourselves with others - similar to anorexia
- not everyone grows or develops at the - people might binge eat and then try to
same time compensate in extreme ways
Media Images and Other outside influences - throw up, exercising all the time, to prevent
weight gain
- can lead to compulsive behaviours Delusion
Metal Health Challenges - is fixed, irrational belief that one is
convinced is true despite evidence to the
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
contrary
- ADHD
Delusions of Persecution
- hard to focus and sit still
- hard to finish things and makes thoughts - the fixed irrational belief is that others are
jump around plotting against and/or following them.
Anxiety
- panic disorder
- string, sudden feelings of stress or fear are
called panic attack
Panic attack
- chest or stomach hurt, your heart speed up,
make you feel afraid, dizzy, or feel like you
can’t breathe
Autism Spectrum Disorder
- changes the way the brain understands the
world
- hard time talking about their feelings,
understanding, people’s action and being
social
Bi-polar Disorder
- changes the way people feel emotions
- emotions can go from happy to very sad
quickly
Post Traumatic Disorder
- feel scared even if they are safe and there is
nothing to be afraid of
- real, or think something bad is going to
happen again.
Schizophrenia
- hard for people to know what is real and
what is not real
- can make the brain think it sees or hears
things that aren’t really there
- start to think that people are trying to
control them or read their minds
- person loses touch with reality
Paranoia
- delusions of persecution, unwarranted
jealousy, or exaggerated self- importance
- aspect of chronic personality disorder
- serious condition such as schizophrenia
Persecution Complex
- a type of delusion

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