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Module 4:

The Challenges of Middle


and Late Adolescence
Objectives:
1. Discuss how facing the challenges during
adolescence, you may able to clarify and manage
the demands of teen years.
2. Express your feelings on the expectations of
the significant people around you, such as your
parents, siblings, friends, teachers, community
leaders.
3. Make affirmations that help you become more
lovable and capable as an adolescent.
“Successful people are always
looking for opportunities to help
others.
Unsuccessful people are always
asking: What's in it for me?”
-Brian Tracy
Reading:

The Passage to Adulthood:


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.
• 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.
Social Development
• Shifts in relationship with parents from
dependency and subordination to one that
reflects the adolescents increasing maturity and
responsibilities in the family and the community.
• Is more and more aware of social behavior of
friends.
• Seeks friends that share the same beliefs,
values and interests.
• Friends become more important.
• Starts to have more intellectual interest.
• Explores romantic and sexual behaviors
with others.
• May be influenced by peers to try risky
behaviors (alcohol, tobacco, sex and
etc.)
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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