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Module 4 Challenges Middle and Late Adolescence

This document discusses the challenges of adolescence from biological, psychological, and social perspectives. Biologically, puberty and hormonal changes can increase risks of depression and risky behaviors. Psychologically, developing identity and managing mood swings can be difficult. Socially, family, peers, school, environment, and socioeconomic status can influence development. Some common challenges teenagers face include drug and computer game addiction, running away, risky sexual behaviors, depression, and suicide. The document provides strategies for coping with these challenges such as accepting feelings, developing interests, seeking help, and connecting with others.

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Module 4 Challenges Middle and Late Adolescence

This document discusses the challenges of adolescence from biological, psychological, and social perspectives. Biologically, puberty and hormonal changes can increase risks of depression and risky behaviors. Psychologically, developing identity and managing mood swings can be difficult. Socially, family, peers, school, environment, and socioeconomic status can influence development. Some common challenges teenagers face include drug and computer game addiction, running away, risky sexual behaviors, depression, and suicide. The document provides strategies for coping with these challenges such as accepting feelings, developing interests, seeking help, and connecting with others.

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Richard Lapuz Lumanlan


SHS Teacher
THE CHALLENGES
OF MIDDLE AND
LATE
ADOLESCENCE
Growing up is never easy! You are
faced with a lot of challenges. These
challenges are rooted in the various
changes that happen in adolescents.
ACTIVITY
Identifying Risky
Behaviors!
GROUP NUMBER POINTS
1
2
3
4
5
6
What causes risky
behaviors?
Santrock (2012) cited the biopsychosocial
approach in emphasizing that biological,
psychological, and social factors interplay
and contribute to create problems that you
need to overcome during adolescence.
Biological or physical factors such as genes,
puberty, hormones, and brain development
cause challenges that adolescents need to
face. Hormonal changes that teenagers go
through during puberty have been linked to
higher rates of depression and heightend
sex drives.
One of the most difficult
challenges that you
encounter as a teenager is
finding a sense of identity.
Successful formation of your identity will
lead to healthy academic, social and
psychological functioning. The absence of
concrete self-identity causes heightened
emotionality and have mood swings easily.
Sometimes, mood swings
become too erratic and
negative, resulting in
relationship problems and
depression.
If self-control is not mastered,
concerns regarding drug abuse,
computer gaming, and other
delinquent behaviors may
emerge.
There are social factors that contribute
to the emergence of an adolescent.
These factors include family, peers,
school, socioecomic status, and
immediate environment.
REJECTION may cause
depression if not
handled well.
Hanging out with friends who
have negative attitudes has a big
influence on your personality
development.
Engaging in romantic
relationships poses
challenges to teenagers.
Nowadays, adolescents start
romantic relationships at an
earlier age and thus sufer
various consequences.
Further, teenagers who drop out
from school are more prone to
drug addiction and other
delinquent activities.
There are studies that prove that
poverty is linked to many
problems that adolescents are
vulnerable to.
PITFALLS AND
CHALLENGES OF
ADOLESCENTS
You will learn about some of the common pitfalls
and challenges that adolescents encounter,
namely, using and abusing drugs, being addicted
to computer games, running away from home,
being sexually promiscious, becoming a teenage
parent, and being depressed and committing
suicide.
The use of drugs is
often due to peer
pressure.
Computer gaming is really a
popular recreational activity.
Computer game addicts neglect
time orientation because they are
virtually living inside the electronic
world.
Some teenagers today run away from
home for different reasons. Their
reasons range from their parents
hurting them pysically, feeling unhappy
at home, to using is as a means to get
what they want.
As teenagers normally experience
heightened sexual desire, due to hormonal
changes that occur in their body during this
stage, they try to engage in sexual activities
and sexual explorations accentuated by the
proddings of their peers.
Based on the data from the DOH on
the transmission of the HIV, the
most number of persons who
become infected with HIV are
teenagers.
Another challenge that
you may encounter is
depression.
According to the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders, fifth edition, at least five
of the nine symptoms represent a
change in the individual's
functioning.
1. depressed mood
most of the day.
2. markedly diminished
interest or pleasure in all,
or almost all, activities
most of the day.
3. significant weight loss
or weight gain, or
decrease or increase in
appetite nearly every day.
4. insomnia or
hypersomia nearly every
day.
5. psychomotor agitation
or retardatioon nearly
every day.
5. psychomotor agitation
or retardatioon nearly
every day.
6. fatigue or loss of
energy nearly every day.
7. feelings of
worthlessness or
excessive or inappropriate
guilt nearly every day.
8. diminished ability to
think or concentrate, or
indecisiveness, nearly
every day.
9. recurrent thoughts of death,
recurrent suicidal ideation
without specific plan, or a
suicide attempt or a specific plan
for committing suicide.
Knowing these pitfalls and
challenges will help you avoid
being trapped to difficult
situations.
Remember that you are
unique and that you can
make a difference in your
life.
Constantly ask for support and
guidance from someone whom
you really trust, you will be able
to surpass adversaries during
this stage.
ACTIVITY
THE EMPTY PAPER!
ACTIVITY
Get one whole sheet of yellow
paper and write a letter to your
parents/guardians including your
reactions on their expectations.
STRATEGIES TO COPE WITH CHALLENGES
The challenges that you normally face may
be stressful and painful. Although you have
the capability to handle them, everyday
stress and pressures may still cause some
strain in yourn psychological well-being.
To be able to cope well and make sure to
emerge in this journey victoriously, here are
some strategies that may help you do so.
1. Learn to accept what you feel. When you
feel sad, angry, or envious, you need to
embrace these feelings because they are real
emotions.
2. Identify your vulnerabilities.
Knowing when you feel intense
emotions is important to
acknowledge.
3. Develop your talents and
interests. Attaining postive self-
esteem helps boost your
psychological well-being.
4. Become more involved with
other. Happy people do not just
live for themselves and do not
think of themselves alone.
5. Seek help when needed. Asking
for help is as beneficial as helping
others.

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