The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence

Learning Competencies:
You should be able to:
1. Discuss that facing the challenges during adolescence may able to clarify and
manage the demands of teen years.
2. Express your feelings on the expectations of the significant people around you
(parents, siblings, friends, teachers, community leaders).
3. Make affirmations that help you become more lovable and capable as an
adolescent.
The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence
• Growing up is never easy.
• You are faced with a lot of challenges.
• These challenges are rooted in the various changes that happen in adolescents.
• What comes into your mind when you hear the word “challenges?”
• To begin our lesson let us try to define what are challenges for you?
• How do you look at challenges?
The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence

• Do you look at challenges as synonymous to problems, threats, trials, and tests or

something negative?
• Or do you consider challenges as opportunities, chances, or spring boards to
success – something positive?
• In this lesson, you shall try to understand the challenges that confront now or will
possibly confront you in the near future.
• Together with your classmates, expect to exchange ideas and explore possibilities
for facing these challenges in ways that are constructive and beneficial to your
personal growth.
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CHALLENGES OF LATE ADOLESCENCE

• Physical Development
 Most girls have completed the physical changes related to puberty by age 15.
 Boys are still maturing and gaining strength, muscle mass, and height and are
completing the development of sexual traits.
• Emotional Development
May stress over school and test scores.
Is self-involved (may have high expectations and low self-concept).
Seeks privacy and time alone.
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CHALLENGES OF LATE ADOLESCENCE

 Is concerned about physical and sexual attractiveness.

 May complain that parents prevent him or her from doing things independently.
 Is concerned about physical and sexual attractiveness.
 May complain that parents prevent him or her from doing things independently.
 Starts to want both physical and emotional intimacy in relationships.
 The experience of intimate partnerships.
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CHALLENGES OF LATE ADOLESCENCE

• Social Development
 Shifts in relationship with parents from dependency and subordination to one
that reflects the adolescent’s increasing maturity and responsibilities in the
family and the community,
 Is more and more aware of social behaviors of friends.
 Seeks friends that share the same beliefs, values, and interests.
 Friends become more important.
 Starts to have more intellectual interests.
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CHALLENGES OF LATE ADOLESCENCE

 Explores romantic and sexual behaviors with others.

 May be influenced by peers to try risky behaviors (alcohol, tobacco, sex).
• Mental Development
 Becomes better able to set goals and think in terms of the future.
 Has a better understanding of complex problems and issues.
 Starts to develop moral ideals and to select role models.
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CHALLENGES OF LATE ADOLESCENCE

 As this lesson ultimately aims to cope with challenges and improve one’s
relationship with your significant others, it is perhaps best to end this
lecture by providing some Strategies to cope with challenges.