SELF-AWARENESS AND

VALUES DEVELOPMENT
MR. PETER PAUL R. PERUDA, LPT
UNDERSTANDING ADOLESCENCE

• Feeling left out and being rushed into changes

too quickly are common for adolescents.
• Complete will a full set of emotions and fancy
accessories.
• Glands and hormones plays a significant role in
regulating the changes of puberty.
• Endocrine system is also responsible for
everything from a remarkable growth.
• Changes as significant as those of puberty can have far-
reaching psychological and social effects.
• The changes themselves may not be as important as
when they take place for particular individual.
• Staying the same when all one’s friends are changing can
be every bit as stressful as going through the changes.
• The timing of puberty is important, along with its end
results.
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL
IMPLICATIONS OF PUBERTY

• Puberty affects adolescents’ closest relationship in

intimate ways.
• Even the simplest activities that make up a day,
things such as having breakfast or hassling over
kitchen responsibilities, are often suffused with
emotion.
• They also remind us that such activities when they
involve more than one member of the family are
rarely experienced in the same way by each of
them.
HEIGHTENED EMOTIONALITY OF
ADOLESCENCE

• Adolescents become moody

• It has indeed found some support for heightened
emotionality in adolescence.
• They have a wider range of emotions
• They have also a wider negative feelings, describing
themselves as unsure, lonely, awkward, ignored, and
nervous.
• They are also bored for more often, perhaps because
they feel less in control and less invested in the moment.
HOW PRESENT TEENAGERS THINK

• Adolescents can think about things that don’t exist and

may never exist.
• They can think about what is possible as well as what
actually is.
• Thinking becomes highly systematic and logical
• Reasons are abstract
• Adolescents do some more often and with greater ease.
THREE ADVANCES THAT CHARACTERIZE
ADOLESCENT THOUGHT

1. Thought becomes more abstract; adolescents can

think of things in terms of class membership and can
classify the classes.
2. Thought becomes hypothetical; adolescents can
think of things that are only possible but not real.
3. Thought becomes more logical; adolescents can test
one thought against another.
PROTECTIVE FACTORS IN ADOLESCENCE

• Family interactions that promote both connectedness

and individuality contribute to healthy personality
development.
• Communities having the fewest problem behaviors among
their youth are those where the adolescents experience
their schools as caring and supportive and are likely to
attend religious services and participate in other
community activities.
VALUES DEFINED

• Values are intimately related to the search for meaning

in human life.
• Life has meaning when a man has found something
capable of arousing his commitment to, something
deserving of his efforts, worth living for, and if need be,
worth dying for.
• Values are the goals of man’s striving
• They render meaning to one’s existence and
complete fulfillment to a man’s personality as an
individual and as a member of the community.
• “value” comes from the Latin root valere means
to be strong and vigorous.
• It refers to a quality which proceeds from a high
degree of physical energy.
STAGES OF FILIPINO VALUES FORMATION

1. Stage I- CHILDHOOD: The Preconditional Stage. During this stage,

children comply with the values of their parents, teachers, and
priests wh assert power.
2. Stage II- YOUTH: The Conventional Stage. During this stage, the
adolescents identify themselves with their peers, idols, teachers
and their values because of interpersonal concordance.
3. Stage III- ADULTHOOD: The Post-conventional or Principled Stage.
During this stage internalize the values by which they live.
FILIPINO VALUES

• Bayanihan
• Honesty
• Hiya
• pakikisama
BAYANIHAN

• Spirit of cooperation and camaraderie

• Team spirit and spontaneity in helping others
• Unity of mind, heart and spirit
• “pagkakaisa ng layunin”
• “pagkakaisa ng kilos”
• Pagpapaunlad ng bawat isa
• Masigasig na paggawa
• Kinikilala ang malakas at pinakamalakas ang mahina
• Pag-ibig at katapatan
HIYA

• Hiya is a Filipino value which defies translation in any

Western language
• Hiya is also termed dyahi, means shy, timid, sensitive
rather than being ashamed
• But it can also be a painful emotion or a feeling of shame
due to inadequacy or anxiety or an uncontrolled feeling
that arises from lack of social resources; thus, the effort
to look around for the support of others.
Reasons of Hiya

1. Lack of exposure or socialization

2. Economic security
3. Frustration or frustrating forces
4. Poverty and injustice
5. Utang na loob
6. Amor propio
THANK YOU