Personal Development

Power Triad
Thought – Feelings – Behaviors
Autopilot System Intentional System
- Fast intuitive - Conscious, reasoning, mindful self
- Requires no effort - Drains mental energy
- Automatic T, F, B - Takes intentional effort to turn on
- Mostly make 80% good decisions
Developmental Stages in Middle and Late Adolescence
Human Development- process of human growth and changes across the lifespan, including
physical, cognitive, social, intellectual, personality and emotional growth

Pre-natal Period (conception to birth) Middle and Late Adolescence

 Infancy (birth-2years) Physical Development- G (completed

 Early Childhood (2-6years)
 Late Childhood (6-12years)
 Adolescence (13-18years)
 Ealy Adulthood (18-40years)
 Middle Age (40-retirement)
 Old Age (retirement-death)
physical changes)
- B (still maturing)
Emotional Development- stress over school,
concerned about physical and sexual
attractiveness
Social Development- influenced by peers,
friends become more important
Mutual Development- starts to develop
more ideas, becomes better to set goals
and think in terms of the future

Encouragement is the key ingredient for improving our relationship with other.

Coping with Stress in Middle and Late Adolescence

 Stress is a reaction of the mind and body to a stimulus that disturbs the well-being, state
of calm or equilibrium
2 Source of Stressors of Middle and Late Adolescence
1. External Stressor- those that come from outside of you, such as situations, people and
experience
 2. Internal Stressor- those coming from within you, like thoughts that you have that caused
you to feel

Power of Mind
3 Major Parts of the Brain

 Cerebrum (Forebrain) – largest of the 3 brains, accounts for about 85& of the brain’s
weight
4 Lobes of Cerebrum:
1. Frontal- determines personality and emotions
2. Parietal- helps people understand what they see and feel
3. Temporal- hearing and word recognition abilities
4. Occipital- vision functions
 Cerebellum (Hindbrain)- controls voluntary movement and translate your will into
actions
Neurons- basic functional units of the nervous system and the key to brain function.

 Brain Stem (Medulla) – it connects the spinal cord and the brain controls functions that
keep people alive
Left Brain Right Brain
- Being on time - Being active
- Careful planning - Athletes, art, music
- Classic music

Mental Health and well-being in Middle and Late Adolescence

 Self-esteem is all about how much you feel you are worth and how much you feel other
people value you

 Body image is how you view your physical self-including whatever you feel you are
attractive and whether other likes your looks

Common Eating Disorders:

1. Anorexia- fear or weight gain
2. Bulimia- binge eating (eat to excess)

Emotional Intelligence
 Passive Response- it means not expressing your own needs and feelings or expressing
them so weakly that they will not be addressed
 Aggressive Response- asking for what you want or saying how you feel in a threatening,
sarcastic, and humiliating way that may offend others
  Assertive Response- means asking for what you want or saying how you feel in an
honest and respectful way
“An unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates

 Ideal Self- the self that you aspire to be

 Actual Self- the one that you actually see
 Self-Knowledge- provides insight into how others react to you
 Self-Image- how others view as to who you are
 Personal Effectiveness- making use of all personal resources talents, skills, energy and
time to enable you to achieve your goals
 Self-Concept- your awareness of yourself

 Personal Effectiveness- making use of all personal resources (talents, skills, energy and
time)

 Experience- includes knowledge and skills that we acquire in our daily life

 Knowledge- facts, information and skills acquired by a person through experience/

education

 Skills- the ability to do something well

Evaluating Thoughts, Feelings and Actions

Aspects of Development:
1. Physical Self- describing (height, weight, hair, chest, waist)
2. Intellectual Self- assessment (on how well you reason and solve problems)
3. Emotional Self- feelings (you avoid, enjoy, from past/ present)
4. Sensual Self- sight, hearing, speaking, touching
5. Interactional Self- description (description of your strength and weakness)
6. Nutritional Self- foods you like and dislike
7. Contextual Self- maintenance of your living environment (light, temperature, weather,
colors)
8. Spiritual Self- religion (inner peace, joy)