CHALLENGES
OF MIDDLE & LATE
ADOLESCENCE
TEACHER KAYE
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
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, and
3. make affirmations that help you become more
lovable and capable as an adolescent.
What causes these
CHALLENGES?
Biological or physical factors such
as genes, puberty, hormones,
brain development
The development of the prefrontal
cortex after amygdala
PHYSICAL
PERSONAL
APPERANCE
SELF ESTEEM
SELF-
CONCEPT
Obesity
Unhealthy and Extremely
Restrictive Dieting resulting to
Vitamin Deficiencies
Eating Disorders
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa
Binge Eating
NUTRITION
EMOTIONAL
Feel a lack of freedom
Worried about future
Lack of confidence
Inferiority complex
Anxiety while meeting
strangers
Depression and suicidal
tendencies
Loss and Grief
Relationship Problems
SCHOOL
• Lack of proper counseling &
guidance
• Nagging by teachers
• Project/ Assignment Overload
• Peer maladjustment
• Bullying
SOCIAL
Peer
Pressure
Poverty
Wanting to have/ experience both
physical and emotional intimacy in
relationships.
MENTAL
It is not easy to be an adolescent,
I know…
But with each and every challenge that you surpass..
You become the Better version of You…
The Courage to be Imperfect
Most commonly, we discourage in five general
ways:
We set standards that are too high for others to
meet because we are overly ambitious.
We focus on mistakes as a way to motivate
change or improved behavior.
We make constant comparisons (self to others,
siblings to one another).
We automatically give a negative spin to the
actions of others.
We dominate others by being overly helpful,
implying that they are unable to do it as well.
BEING HAPPY
You may have defects, be anxious and
sometimes live irritated, but do not forget
that your life is the greatest enterprise in
the world. Only you can prevent it from
going into decadence. There are many
that need you, admire you and love you. I
would like to remind you that being happy
is not having a sky without storms, or roads
without accidents, or work without fatigue,
or relationships without disappointments
Being happy is finding strength in
forgiveness, hope in one’s battles, security
at the stage of fear, love in disagreements.
Being happy is not only to treasure the
smile, but that you also reflect on the
sadness. It is not just commemorating the
event, but also learning lessons in failures. It
is not just having joy with the applause, but
also having joy in anonymity.
Being happy is to recognize that it is
worthwhile to live, despite all the
challenges, misunderstandings and times
of crises.
Being happy is not inevitable fate, but a
victory for those who can travel towards it
with your own being
Being happy is to stop being a victim of
problems but become an actor in history
itself. It is not only to cross the deserts
outside of ourselves, but still more, to be
able to find an oasis in the recesses of our
soul. It is to thank God every morning for
the miracle of life.
Being happy is not being afraid of one's
feelings. It is to know how to talk about
ourselves. It is to bear with courage when
hearing a "no". It is to have the security to
receive criticism, even if is unfair. It is to kiss
the children, pamper the parents, have
poetic moments with friends, even if they
have hurt us
Being happy means allowing the free,
happy and simple child inside each of us
to live; having the maturity to say, "I was
wrong"; having the audacity to say,
"forgive me". It is to have sensitivity in
expressing, "I need you"; to have the ability
of saying, "I love you." So that your life
becomes a garden full of opportunities for
being happy...
In your spring-time, may you become a
lover of joy. In your winter, may you
become a friend of wisdom. And when
you go wrong along the way, you start all
over again. Thus you will be more
passionate about life. And you will find that
happiness is not about having a perfect life
but about using tears to water tolerance,
losses to refine patience, failures to carve
serenity, pain to lapidate pleasure,
obstacles to open the windows of
intelligence.
Never give up ... Never give up ON PEOPLE
YOU LOVE.
Never give up from being happy
because life is an incredible show.
And YOU are.. YOU ARE A SPECIAL HUMAN
BEING!
PERSONAL DECLARATION ON BEING HAPPY
