Module 3:
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES IN MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS IN ADOLESCENCE
refer to the specific knowledge, skills, attitudes, and functions that a person needs.
“Developmental tasks are mastered by teenagers in a sequential order”
THREE STAGES OF ADOLESCENCE
Legend: D1 means Developmental 1
EARLY ADOLESCENCE
12-13 YEAR OLD
1.
D1 “Accepting one’s physique
and using one’s body
effectively”
CHANGES:
Physical changes
Sexual changes or (Hormonal
chnages)
Capable of reproduction
REMINDERS:
Accept the fact!
Be responsible!
Be comfortable.
MIDDLE ADOLESCENCE
14-16 YEAR OLD
D2“Achieving new and more
mature relations with age
mates of both sexes”
“Achieving a masculine or
feminine social role”
D3 “Achieving emotional
independence from parents
and other adults”
D4 “You need to be physically
self-reliant and
psychologically independent
from your parents.”
Psychological independence
does not happen overnight.
That’s why it is not aeasy
action.
Becoming more adept in social
settings.
Adept – skilled
More capable of establishing
intimate relationship
You can ask support from your
friends on solving your problems.
Peer pressure and rejection is
inevitable
Conform – to obey or agree with
something
:to do what other people do: to
behave in a way that is accepted
by most people
You should learn to conform
to social demands without
sacrificing your identity
Developmental tasks
(Robert Havighurst)
Kimmel and Weiner, 1995
One of the exciting features of
teenage years is the attraction
that you feel to another person.
Learn to handle heterosexual
relationships, dating, and
sexuality.
CHANGES:
Emotional or
Psychological
and
Social
REMINDERS:
Put away childishness
Ask for help if you can’t do it
by yourself
You can do it!
LATE ADOLESCENCE
ROUGHLY 17 YEAR OLD
You get concerned with
knowing who you are as an
interdependent person
Kimmel and Weiner, 1995
This continues until you have
shown a sense of consistency in
your personal identity in relation
to the people around you, and
you have begun to form some
fairly definite social roles, values
system, and life goals.
You should have already
formed attitudes, learned
skills , and established
relationships that will give
you bases of ascertaining
what kind of a person you are
or what kind of life you want
to lead.
D5. Preparing for marriage
and family life
D6. Preparing for an economic
career
D 7. Acquiring a set of values
and an ethical system as a
guide to behavior-developing
ideology
D8. Desiring, accepting, and
achieving socially responsible
behavior
Adolescence is full of challenges
because it is a stage of
“becoming” rather than of
“being”.
Convert each difficulty into
opportunities to learn and grow
ADOLESCENTS IN THE 21ST
CENTURY
Social development has effects on
your personality.
Personality and behavioral factors
today, may have already been
present before.
The way you value
materialism, technology and
family structure is instant
Adolescent nowadays
considered as a “Culture of
instant result”
Your parents and grandparents
lived in a world characterized by a
culture of hard work.
Adolescents are less likely to be
patient and productive as their
parents and grandparents.
MATERIALISM
A way of thinking that gives to
much importance to material
possessions rather than to
spiritual or intellectual things.
TECHNOLOGY
Modern teenagers are
described as digital natives.
According to CATHERINE
WOOD, Pornography destroys
the person and the family, and
it can be accessed freely in
the internet.
Alarmingly, Many adolescents do
not realize that they play an
integral role in the family.
You are expected to fulfill your
responsibilities and obligations.
How to be a responsible person?
According to Feiden (1991)
1. A strong sense of self-
esteem
2. Capacity for empathy
3. Knowing right from
wrong.
4. Developing good
judgement