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The document discusses risks affecting adolescents. It identifies key threats such as early sexual involvement, sexually transmitted infections, teenage pregnancy, sexual abuse, trafficking, and addiction. The document also discusses vulnerabilities of adolescents including physical, emotional, and socio-economic challenges. Finally, it provides an activity for participants to identify risks, consider positive and negative aspects, and create a plan to improve decision making when faced with threats.

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Module 5 RISK AND THREATS OF YOUNG PEOPLErevppt

The document discusses risks affecting adolescents. It identifies key threats such as early sexual involvement, sexually transmitted infections, teenage pregnancy, sexual abuse, trafficking, and addiction. The document also discusses vulnerabilities of adolescents including physical, emotional, and socio-economic challenges. Finally, it provides an activity for participants to identify risks, consider positive and negative aspects, and create a plan to improve decision making when faced with threats.

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Miss Jannah Salazar and Mrs. Olivia M.

Ladao
Learning Objectives
• Identify key threats and risks encountered
1
by youths.

• Recognize and understand the physical,


2 emotional, and socio-economic
vulnerabilities confronting adolescents.

• Create a plan to improve decision-making


3
and actions when a risk or threat exists.
Activity: Risks Affecting Adolescents
a. Identify key threats and risks confronting adolescents.
b. Broken images will be given in each group. Arrange the
pieces of the puzzle to reveal the image. When done, ask
for the scrambled words from the facilitator and arrange
it.
c. Write one to three sentences using key words or
phrases to describe your group’s output.
The time allotted to finish this activity is 20 minutes. For
the presentation of the output, 1 minute is allotted for
each group’s presenter.
Processing questions…

• What are the challenges you have encountered in doing


the activity?
• Any reflections or realizations?
• How do you feel about the dangers posed by these risks
and threats to adolescents like you?
• When should you be concerned to counter the negative
effects of these threats and risks?
• Are you proud of yourself? How do you say so?
•
A period of increasing vulnerability and risks.

Types of Adolescents’ Vulnerabilities:


1. Physical
2. Emotional
3. Socio-economic
 Adolescence is a time of rapid growth and
development.
 Adolescents seek ownership of their decisions and
actions.
 Adolescents experience enormous physical and
psychological changes, heightened desire to explore
oneself, experimentation, and changes in social
expectations and perceptions.
 This is also the stage where adolescents often have
poor eating habits.

 Poor health in infancy and childhood, often resulting


from impoverished conditions, can persist into
adolescence and beyond.
 Mental health problems can increase during adolescence
due to the hormonal and other physical changes of
puberty, along with changes in adolescents’ social
environment.
 Adolescents often lack assertiveness and good
communication to withstand pressure or coercion from
their peers or adults.
 Young people are more vulnerable to sexual, physical,
and verbal abuse because they are less able to prevent or
stop such manifestations of power.
 During adolescence, young people’s need for money
often increases, yet they typically have little access to
money or gainful employment.
 Poverty and economic hardships increase health risks
due to poor sanitation, lack of clean water, and inability
to afford health care and medications.
 Young women face gender discrimination that affects
food allocation, access to health care, the ability to
negotiate safer sex, and opportunities for social and
economic well-being.
A period of increasing vulnerability
and risks. As doors open to a wider
world, new kinds of relationships and
new types of challenges, it exposes
them to greater THREATS and more
RISKS than they have ever
encountered.
OO EARLY SEXUAL INVOLVEMENT

IV-AIDS/STI
APE and OTHER FORMS OF SEXUAL
ABUSE/VIOLENCE
ARLY MARRIAGE
BORTION

RAFFICKING OF YOUTH AND CHILDREN

SURVIVAL SEX
ADDICTION
(DRUGS/ALCOHOL/SMOKING)

ATURAL RESOURCE
DEGRADATION

DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES and


DEMORALIZATION and INCREASING
PASSIVITY OF YOUTH
RISING INCIDENCE OF SCHOOL DROP
OUTS/RISING CRIMINALITY/RISING
MALNUTRITION

NCOME DEFICIENCY/INADEQUATE SKILLS

EVERAL FORMS OF GAMBLING

NOWLEDGE and SKILLS INADEQUACY and


INEFFECTIVENESS

PIRITUAL EMPTINESS/VACUUM
OO EARLY SEXUAL INVOLVEMENT
- - refers to engaging in some form of sexual encounter or sexual intercourse
at an early age. Too early sexual involvement often leads to WASTED lives.

eak self-image and low self-esteem

dolescent or teenage pregnancy

exually Transmitted Infections

ainted reputation and tarnished image

motional wounds

isrupted goals, Disappointed parents, Dim future


esire to be "in", "cool", accepted or popular. This is related
to the mistaken belief that "every body is doing it" and that
maturity means, "having done it". .

xploration/experimentation Young people have a strong


.

need to live out their fantasies and "test the limits"..

ocial and peer pressure. Media is constantly bombarding the


youth with sexually related messages.

nadequate or inaccurate knowledge. Young people may


have inadequate or false information about sexuality, pregnancy and
the risks of STI.

omantism. This may lead young people to engage in


unprotected sex despite adequate information and knowledge .

scape from problems, parents or a troubled family


By removing the letter H
from the word THREAT,
you can transform it to
TREAT.
H = Hazards
Activity 2
a. Think of one (1) threat or risk that you may possibly
encounter. Create a plan on how you can improve your
decision-making and actions when this risk or threat exists.
Use the template below in making your plan. Twenty (20
minutes) is allotted for you to finish the plan.
b. Share your plan with your group mates.
P M I
(Plus Points) (Minus Points) (Interesting
Points)
Enumerate all the Spill out all the Enumerate all the
positive points negative points interesting points
you can think of you can think of that you can think
that you have to if the wrong thing or points of
counter the was done. interest that you
threat and risk should redirect
you have your attention to
selected. help you make
informed decisions
and sound actions.
Thank you for participating
actively!

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