Understanding Adolescence

Prepared byAngela Gabriel

Jose Aldrin ReyesPEER EDUCATOR

Truth or Lie?

1. Adolescent is a transition period from childhood to adulthood

2. Menstruation is a sign of aging

3. A boy can be married below the age of 18

4. Teenagers have the right to receive information about growing up, health and sexuality

5. There are no adolescents inside this classroom

Truth

Lie

Lie

Truth

Lie

What do people call you?

Adolescents

• 10 – 19 years old (WHO)

Young People

• 10 – 24 years old (WHO)

Youth

• 15 – 30 years old

• Sec. 4a RA 8044: Youth in Nation Building Act

ADOLESCENCE•A bridge that connects childhood to

adulthood.

•A continuum of physical, cognitive, behavioral and psychosocial change. psychosocial change.

Three Psychosocial

Phases of Adolescence

Early Adolescence• Ages 10 to 13• Physical Development – change throughout the body

• Cognitive Development – develops ability to think, learn, reason, and remember

• Emotional and social Development – urge to be more independent

• Sensory and motor Development – clumsiness

Middle Adolescence• Ages 14 to 16• Physical Development

• Emotional Development

• Social Development

• Mental Development

Late Adolescence• Ages 17 to 19• Emotional Development

• Social Development

• Mental Development

5 I’s of Adolescence

Independence•Make own decisions

• Power to choose your friends, plan your activities

• You want to be consulted in areas that affect your life

• You want privacy and freedom

• Your focus gradually shifts from parents to peers

• Sometimes, you value the opinion of peers than family

• You develop and express your own opinions and ideas

Identity• Big questions: Who am I? What do I want to be?

• You experiment with dressing, speaking, behaving

• You change the spelling of your name, adopt a new accent, new expressions

• You join cause-oriented activities like saving the environment, nationalism, Teen Health Club

• You daydream and image yourself in different roles, identities and situations

• Your interests and likes may change all the time

Intimacy• You want to be connected with significant people

who can understand and accept you for who you are

• You learn to manage and express your emotions

• You learn how to love and be loved

• You look for close relationships with your peers

• You may not know it but you are preparing yourself for a loving, stable relationship later on in life

Integrity• You choose what is right and what is not right to

guide your actions and choices

• You look for role models

• You begin to question things around you especially those which you believe are not right

Intellect• You develop the power to think in new and

exciting ways. You become smarter.

• You get better at abstract thinking and logical reasoning

• You may tend to over-believe in your theories and ideas to the point of becoming idealistic and impractical

Recap!

What is adolescence?What are the Three Psychosocial

Developmental Phases of Adolescence?

What are the 5 I’s of Adolescence?

Thank you very much to the tenth power!