PERSONAL

DEVELOPMENT
THIS COURSE CAN HELP YOU:

• Take a deeper look at yourself and analyze

your developmental changes, skill and traits
which can help you meet the tasks that you
are expected to undertake.
THIS COURSE CAN HELP YOU:

• Learn techniques to meet stress and other

mental health issues with one’s strengths
and coping powers
THIS COURSE CAN HELP YOU:

• Analyze your relationships with your

family, friends and significant others.
THIS COURSE CAN HELP YOU:

• Realize where you are in your career

development and how to get where you
want to be
COURSE CONTENT

• Unit 1 – Self-Development
• Unit 2 – Aspects of Personal Development
• Unit 3 – Building and Maintaining Relationships
• Unit 4 – Career Development
UNIT 1 – SELF DEVELOPMENT
Module 1: Knowing and Understanding Oneself
during Middle and Late Adolescence
Stage of Adolescence
Early adolescence (11 -13 years of
age)
Middle adolescence (14 – 18 years
of age)
Late Adolescence (19 – 21 years
of ag)
Physical Development
• Start of puberty
• Puberty is completed
• Young women, typically are
fully developed
• Young men continue to gain
height, weight, muscle mass
and body hair
Cognitive Development
• Growing capacity for abstract
thought
• Mostly interested in the
present with limited thought of
the future
• Intellectual interests expand
and become more important
• Deeper moral thinking
• Continued growth of capacity
for abstract thought
• Interest in moral reasoning
• Thinking about the meaning of
life
• Ability to think ideas through
• Continued interest in moral
reasoning
• Increased concern of the future
• Examination on inner
experiences
Social Emotional Development
• Struggle with sense of identity
• Greater interest in privacy
• Moodiness
• Increased influence of peer
groups
• Desire for independence
• Feel awkward about one’s self
and one’s body
• feelings of love and passion
• Tendency to distance selves
from parents
• Continued adjustment to
changing body, worries about
being normal
• Firmer sense of identity
• Increased emotional stability
• Peer relationships remain
important
• Increased independence and
self-reliance
• Increased concern for others
SELF-CONCEPT

• Refers to your awareness of yourself

• Has 2 broad categories
• Ideal self
• Actual self
SELF-CONCEPT
• Actual self
 “self image”
 Built on self-knowledge that is derived from social
interactions that provide insight into how others react to
you
 Can be seen by others
SELF-CONCEPT
• Ideal self
 How we want to be
 Idealized image that we have developed over time
based on experiences
 May include components of what our parents taught us,
what we admire in others, what our society promotes,
and what we this is best for us
SELF-CONCEPT
• There is a NEGOTIATION between the two selves
• Aligned actual and ideal self = sense of mental well-
being
• Incongruent actual and ideal self = mental distress or
anxiety
PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
-means making use of all the personal resources to enable you to achieve life
goals
-your awareness of yourself and how you manage yourself impacts directly
your personal effectiveness
• Talents – innate characteristics
• Experiences – includes knowledge and skills that we acquire in our daily
lives.
• Knowledge – facts and information acquired by a person through
experience or education
• Skills – the ability to do something well
UNIT 1 – SELF DEVELOPMENT
Module 2: Developing the Whole Person
ASPECTS OF THE SELF
• PHYSICAL
• INTELLECTUAL
• EMOTIONAL
ASPECTS OF THE SELF
• PHYSICAL
-relates to the body
-most people give strong emphasis on this aspect of the
self
ASPECTS OF THE SELF
• INTELLECTUAL
-relates to the mind
-part of the self that directs the other 2 aspects
-mind learns what to do and communicates it to the body and emotions
-people store healthy and destructive thoughts that respond to life’s
circumstances
ASPECTS OF THE SELF
• EMOTIONAL
• Relates to the spirit
• Most feared aspect of the self, as people are reluctant and
unprepared to manage them
• Negative emotions that are not managed are sored and
repressed
UNIT 1 – SELF DEVELOPMENT
Module 3: Developmental Tasks in Middle and
Late Adolescence
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
• the progressive series of changes in structure,
function, and behavior patterns that begins at
conception and continues through the lifespan
• Includes either in a state of growth or decline
3 DOMAINS OF DEVELOPMENT
• PHYSICAL
• COGNITIVE
• SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
• Involves growth and changes in the body and brain, the
senses, motor skills, and health and wellness.
• also includes puberty, sexual health, fertility, menopause,
changes in our senses, and primary versus secondary
aging.
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
•  involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking,
reasoning, and creativity.
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
•  Involves what’s going on both psychologically and
socially.
•  Includes capacity to understand, experience, express and
manage emotions, personality, and develop social
relationships.
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS THEORY
Robert J. Havighurst elaborated in the
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS THEORY that
development is continuous in a lifespan, where an
individual moves from one stage to the next by
means of successful resolution of problems or
performance of developmental tasks.
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS THEORY
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS OF ADOLESCENCE (13 – 18 YEARS OLD)

1. Achieving new and more mature relations with age-mates of both sexes
2. Achieving a masculine or feminine social role
3. Accepting one's physique and using the body effectively
4. Achieving emotional independence of parents and other adults
5. Preparing for marriage and family life Preparing for an economic career
6. Acquiring a set of values and an ethical system as a guide to behavior; developing an ideology
7. Desiring and achieving socially responsible behavior
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
THEORY
•  if a person successfully accomplishes and masters the
developmental task
-he feels pride and satisfaction
-earns society’s approval
-becomes confident in accomplishing tasks in the later
stages
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
THEORY
•  if a person unsuccessfully accomplishes and masters the
developmental task
-he feels unhappy
-does not earn society’s approval
-may experience difficulty in facing succeeding tasks.