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Lesson 4 The Challenges of Middle and Late

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Lesson 4 The Challe

nges of Middle and


Late Adolescence
Major Challenges faced by adolescents (SHS).

 Self-Esteem2.
 Physical Appearance3.
 Group Belongingness4.
 Relationships5.
 Sexuality and Sexual Relationships
 Academic concerns7.
 Choosing the right course and career path8.
 Socio-emotional challenges
Self-Esteem
It is one’s subjective evaluation of his/her
own worth. It is about believing in
oneself,
Having.
confidence in one’s own value as a
person, and seeing oneself in a positive
way.
Physical Appearance
*it is the thing that other people notice
about a person.
*Experts encourage to celebrate physical
beauty as one’s own and not dictated by
society or the media.
*ConfidenceIt is the most attractive
quality of an individual
Group belongingness

It is a warm sense of comfort


when one can identify with a
group of people with
similarinterests and values.
Relationships
It requires a person to be
emotionally mature-to be
rational in thought and
behavior.
Romantic relationships
These relationships are highly
intense and emotional and
people do not usually
thinkwith reason and
objectivity
Sexuality and sexual relationship
Responsibility means learning to control and limit one’s sexual expression anf being
aware of the consequences of his/her sexual behaviors before deciding to engage in
any sexual act.

Academic concerns
Procrastination
• It means internal distraction and one’s worst enemy.
Fear of failures
• Too much anxiety may hinder a person to do his/her best and too little anxiety also
inhibits a person’s performances.
Grades
• They help a person achieve the goals of academic excellence and fuether studies.
Choosing the right course and career path
It may seem like the biggest and most important decisions to make at this point in
one’s life.
Socio – emotional challenges
Grief – it means deep sadness caused especially by someone’s death.
other socio – emotional struggles:
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Bipolar disorder
• Trauma
• Eating disorder
• Attention deficit
Anxiety – it is the sense of impending down without a factual basis
Depression – it is manifested by a person who loses interest in most things that
excites him/her and experiences drastic changes in appetite and sleep.
Panic attack – it is displayed by feelings of panic, fear, uneasiness, nervousness, or agitation and
maybe some accompanying physiological effects.

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