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The document discusses the developmental tasks and challenges faced during adolescence, including biological, cognitive, and psychological changes. It highlights health issues such as eating disorders, anxiety, mood disorders, and social issues like sexual abuse and substance abuse. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of significant people, such as parents, friends, and teachers, in supporting adolescents through these challenges.

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Week-3

The document discusses the developmental tasks and challenges faced during adolescence, including biological, cognitive, and psychological changes. It highlights health issues such as eating disorders, anxiety, mood disorders, and social issues like sexual abuse and substance abuse. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of significant people, such as parents, friends, and teachers, in supporting adolescents through these challenges.

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Week 3

Ms. Myla M. Siatriz


Cognitive Triangle

Aspect of Holistic Development


Week 3
Lesson 5: Developmental Tasks and Challenges of
Adolescence
Lesson 6: Development Through the Help of
Significant People
Lesson 5: Developmental Task
and Challenges of Adolescence

-is defined as the period


between the normal onset of
puberty and the beginning of
adulthood.
Biological Challenges
• Changes that occur due to the
release of the sexual hormones
that affect EMOTIONS.

• Mood changes can increase,


which can impact on
relationships both at home with
parents and siblings and socially
or at school
Cognitive Challenges
Piaget, in his Theory of Social Development
believed that adolescence is the time when YOUNG
PEOPLE DEVELOP COGNITIVELY FROM “CONCRETE
OPERATIONS” TO “FORMAL OPERATIONS” so they
are able to deal with ideas, concepts and abstract
theories.
Psychological Challenges
• A new person is emerging, where rules will change,
maybe more responsibilities will be placed on him/her
so that a certain standard of behavior is now required
to be maintained.

• As adolescents continue their journey of self-


discovery, they continually adjust to new experiences,
even biologically and socially.
Health Issues of adolescence:

Eating Disorder
-An eating disorder describe -Eating disturbances may
illness that are include inadequate or excessive
characterized by irregular
food intake which can ultimately
eating habits and severe
distress or concern about damage an individual’s well-
body weight or shape. being
Types of Eating Disorder
Anorexia Nervosa
-Teenagers with
anorexia may take
extreme measures to
avoid eating and to
control the quantity
and quality of the
foods they eat. They
may become
abnormally thin and
still talk about feeling
fat. They typically
continue to strict diet
even at very
unhealthy weights
because they have a
distorted image of
Bulimia Nervosa
-Teenagers with bulimia
nervosa typically ‘binge
and purge’ by engaging in
uncontrollable episodes of
overeating (bingeing)
usually followed by
compensatory behavior
such as: purging through
vomiting, use of laxatives,
enemas, fasting, or
excessive exercise. Eating
binges may occur as often
as several times a day but
are most common in the
evening and night hours.
Mental Health Disorder
Anxiety Disorder Mood Disorder
-Anxiety disorders are -The development of
a group of mental
emotional or
disorders characterized
behavioral symptoms
by significant feelings
of anxiety and fear. in response to
Anxiety is a worry identifiable stressors
about future events, that occur within 3
and fear is a reaction months of the onset of
to current events. the stressors. Here,
These feelings may low mood, tearfulness,
cause physical or feelings of
symptoms, such as a hopelessness are
fast heart rate and predominant.
shakiness.
Mental Health Disorder
Major Depressive Bipolar Disorder:
Disorder (MDD):
-A period of
-A period of at least 2 abnormally and
weeks during which persistently elevated,
there is either expansive, or irritable
depressed mood or mood and abnormally
the loss of interest or and persistency
pleasure in nearly all increased activity or
activities. In children energy,
and adolescents, the
mood may be irritable
rather than sad.
Mental Health Disorder
Attention Deficit
School phobia
Hyperactivity
Disorder -School phobia, also
called school refusal, is
-Definitions of the defined as a persistent
symptom complex and irrational fear of
known as attention- going to school. School
deficit/hyperactivity phobia, also called
disorder (ADHD) differ, school refusal, is
but severe problems defined as a persistent
with concentration or and irrational fear of
attention and/or going to school
hyperactivity are
estimated to affect
adolescents. Six times
as many boys as girls
are affected.
Social Issues
Sexual Abuse Substance Influence of Mass
Abuse Media and Impact of
Social Media
Development Through the Help of Significant
People

Parent Friends Community


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Sibling Teache
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