The Challenges of
Middle and Late
Adolescence
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
● After going through this module, you are expected 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 expectation of the significant people around
you, such as your parents, siblings, friends, teachers, community leaders,
and
3. Make affirmation that help you become more lovable and capable as an
adolescent.
The Challenges of Middle
and Late Adolescence
●Big Question: How can you, as an
adolescent, balance the expectation
of significant people in your life and
your personal aspirations?
●“Successful people are always
looking for opportunities to help
others. Unsuccessful people are
always asking: What’s in it for me”-
Brian Tracy
ROLE PLAY OR ACT OUT
1. Plan a role play on a specific situation in which
a developmental challenge of middle
adolescence is seen in your everyday living.
2. Perform your role play/ act out in front of the
class.
THE PASSAGE TO
ADULTHOOD:
CHALLENGES OF LATE
ADOLESCENCE
Adolescence is a tough time for parent and ch
ild alike. It is a time between: between childh
ood and maturity, between parental protectio
n and personal responsibility, between life st
age- managed by grown-ups and life privately
held.
Physical Development
●Most girls have completed the physical
changes related to puberty by age.
●Boys are still maturing and gaining
strength, muscle mass, and height and are
completing the development of sexual
habits.
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.
Start 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 adolescent’s
increasing maturity and responsibilities in the family
and the community.
Is more and more aware of social behaviors of
friends.
Seek friends that share the same beliefs, values, and
interests.
Friends become more important.
Starts to have more intellectual interests.
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.
Start to develop moral ideals and to select role
models
ENCOURAGEMENT
Encouragement
● It is the key ingredient for improving your
relationship for others.
● It is the single most important skill necessary
for getting along with others- so important that
the lack of it could be considered the primary
cause of conflict and misbehavior.
●It develops a person’s psychological
hardiness and social interest.
●It is the lifeblood of a relationship.
● Its spiritual connotation dates back to the Bible in
Hebrews 3:11 which states “Encourage one another
daily.”
● Encouragement, as a psychological idea, was
developed by psychiatrist Alfred Adler in the early 20th
Century and continued to evolved through the work
of Adler’s follower Rudolph Dreikurs.
●Instead of building them up, we tear
them down;
●Instead of recognizing their efforts and
improvements, we point out mistakes;
●Instead of allowing them to belong
through shared decision-making and
meaningful contributions, we isolate
and label them.
● Most of us are skilled discouragers. We have
learned how to bride, reward and, when that
fails, to punish, criticize, nag, threaten,
interrogate and emotionally withdraw.
● These attempts to control behavior create
atmospheres of tensions and conflict in many
houses.
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 action of others.
We dominate others by being overly
helpful, implying that they are unable to
do it as well.
● Encouragement conveys the idea that all
human beings are worthwhile, simply because
they exist.
● Encouragement develops children’s
psychological hardiness- their ability to function
and recover when things aren’t going their way.
Encouragement
● It enhances a feeling of belonging which leads
to greater social interest.
● Social interest is the tendency for people to
unite themselves with other human beings and
to accomplish their tasks in cooperation with
others.
●The first step to becoming an
encouraging person is to learn to
distinguish encouragement from
discouragement.
●As a rule, ask yourself: Whatever I say
or do, will it bring me closer together or
farther apart from this person?
●We all have the power to be more
encouraging people. The choice, as
always, is yours.
THE POWER OF
PERSONAL
DECLARATIONS
● The following are some declarations that you
may want to make concerning your life:
● I declare:
○ That I am totally free of all addictions.
○ That I will survive any attempts of others to
control my life.
○ That I am free in my mind, body, and
emotions.
○ That I am free to set goals and reach them.
○ That I am a loving individual with the capability to
give love.
○ That I am a child of God with all the rights and
privileges thereof.
○ That I will contribute to the welfare of others.
○ That I will be an ambassador of good will to
all I meet on the journey.
○ That I will be a good example for others to
follow.
●That I will help all that I can to reach
their goals.
●That I will speak words of
encouragement to others.
●That I will find the goodness of life and
focus on it.
● That I will not succumb to the negative
influence of others.
● That I will read the information that will
encourage my personal, and spiritual growth.
● That I will commit to being the best I can be.
●These declarations are meant to
encourage you to take control of the
influences in your life.
●Don’t be discouraged if you don’t reach
your goals overnight. Just remember that
even a small stream of water will crack
concrete eventually!
Portfolio Output
Poster Slogan on Being Happy
1. Read the essay on “Being Happy”.
2. Choose a phrase, sentence, or paragraph that strikes you.
3. Make a poster slogan on how you can be committed to your self-
development.
4. Explain your thoughts and feelings about it. Include specific
ways in which you will develop yourself further.
BEING HAPPY
● Look for a real- life situation that to many, it’s really hard to
move on but because of your learning, you can overcome it.
Make a story about it.
● Select 3 persons that you choose to give them happiness.
Who are they? Why do you want them to be happy and what
are you going to do in order to make them happy?
PERSON YOU CHOOSE WHY DO YOU CHOOSE HOW DO YOU MAKE
TO GIVE HAPPINESS THEM? THEM HAPPY?
