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Skills and Tasks Appropriate For Middle and Late Adolescence

The document outlines 10 skills and tasks appropriate for middle and late adolescence: 1. Adjusting to physical and emotional changes of puberty through healthy sexual development. 2. Developing abstract thinking through creating theories and considering multiple perspectives. 3. Developing compassion through understanding others' feelings and perspectives in relationships. 4. Acquiring problem-solving, decision-making, and conflict resolution skills through objective consideration of consequences. 5. Forming one's own moral standards, values and belief systems through complex understanding of ethics.

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Skills and Tasks Appropriate For Middle and Late Adolescence

The document outlines 10 skills and tasks appropriate for middle and late adolescence: 1. Adjusting to physical and emotional changes of puberty through healthy sexual development. 2. Developing abstract thinking through creating theories and considering multiple perspectives. 3. Developing compassion through understanding others' feelings and perspectives in relationships. 4. Acquiring problem-solving, decision-making, and conflict resolution skills through objective consideration of consequences. 5. Forming one's own moral standards, values and belief systems through complex understanding of ethics.

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Skills and Tasks Appropriate for Middle and Late Adolescence

1. Adjust to sexually maturing bodies and feelings – being aware of the bodily changes happening,
managing sexual feelings, and engaging in healthy sexual behaviors. Establishing sexual identity
and developing skills for romantic and meaningful relationships are the healthy results when
adolescents learn to adjust to their own development.
2. Develop and apply abstract thinking skills – effectively understand and coordinate abstract
ideas, thinking out possibilities, trying out theories, planning ahead, reflecting on how and what
they are thinking, and coming out with their own personal philosophies. An example here is to
create your own theory or theories about certain issues, like fake news on social media. What
do you think drive people and institutions to create and post fake news?
3. Develop and apply a new perspective on human relationships – developing the capacity for
compassion by learning how to put themselves in “somebody else’s shoes” in order to
understand other people’s feelings and perspectives. Looking at relationships in different
perspectives can develop in learning how to resolve conflicts in relationships. For example, if a
friend posts a negative comment about you on Facebook, how will you react to this?
4. Develop and apply new coping skills in areas such as decision-making, problem-solving, and
conflict resolution – adolescents acquire new thinking capabilities that will help them engage in
more creative strategies for problem solving, decision-making, and resolving conflicts. They
should be able to project toward the future and see the consequences of their decisions. These
coping skills develop emotional intelligence by looking at situations more objectively rather than
personally.
5. Identify meaningful moral standards, values, and belief systems – because of their idealism,
adolescents develop more complex understanding of morality, justice, and compassion that
leads to the formation of their own belief systems that will guide their decisions and behaviors.
For example, what is your stand on the death penalty? What do you need to know before you
can make a decision objectively and intelligently on this? What values are involved?
6. Understand and express more complex emotional experiences – becoming more in touch with
their emotions and see the complex variances among strong emotions and feelings,
understanding the emotions and feelings of other persons, and learning how to detach
themselves from emotional situations whenever the need arises. How can you detach yourself
from a situation? For example, you have a friend who is very angry with you. This person is
shouting invectives and insults at you. What do you do? One way of dealing with this is to ask
some questions to yourself, such as “What is making this person angry?” “Is this person’s
perceptions of me valid and accurate?” How do I feel about this?” “What is important to me and
this person?”
7. Form friendships that are mutually close and supportive – peer influence is very strong among
adolescents and this should be able to steer and adolescent toward productive and positive
relationships, behavior, and thinking. Learning how to trust others is an important task for an
adolescent to develop. Do you have trust issues? How is this affecting how you relate to others?
What do you need to do to address your trust issues?
8. Establish key aspects of identity – be encouraged to develop their own healthy self-concepts
that reflect their uniqueness in relation to themselves, their families and friends, and with the
bigger community. Your healthy self-concept is developed by knowing and acknowledging your
strengths and challenges. For example, your see yourself as loyal and forgiving person, but with
a short temper. How do you reconcile your strengths and weaknesses?
9. Meet the demands of increasingly mature roles and responsibilities – it is important for the
emerging adult to acquire skills and knowledge that will provide him with meaningful careers
and jobs and to live up to the expectations regarding commitment to family, community, and
nation-building. One way of developing maturity and responsibility is by joining volunteer
groups and/or school organizations. You can choose an organization that fits your interests and
find out how you can contribute to its success.
10. Renegotiate relationships with adults in parenting roles – the adolescents stage sees the
movement toward independence and autonomy. In our culture, we are not used to talking to
our parents about the way they treat us in terms of being more independent. Some parents who
are overprotective find it difficult to let go of their control over their children. Filipino
adolescents should be able to communicate with their parents their need for a certain degree of
independence as they mature to young adulthood.

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