The Challenges of middle and late adolescence- the developmental changes in middle and late adolescence, and expectations of and from adolescents.

1. The Challenges of
Middle and Late
Adolescent

2. How can you, as an adolescent,
balance the expectation of
significant people in your life and
your aspiration?

3. ✢ According to Brian Tracy,
successful people are always
looking for opportunities to help
others; while unsuccessful people
are always asking the questions,
‘what is it for me?”

4. ✢ It is very important for you to note
that challenges are part and parcel
of life.
✢ At the end of the day, success is
not determined by how many times
you make mistakes rather you put
emphasis on the times you learn
from those mistakes. As you go
older expectations both from inside
and out compel you to make
decisions in life.
✢ Decision making is indeed the
working of an adult person.

5. REMEMBER!
✢ You are now in your middle
or late adolescent stage.
And you are at stake with
expectations from your
peers, teachers, and your
parents.

6. ✢ Activity #2
Feeling at a Glance

7. Guide Questions
✢ Write your reflection for the given activity on
the space provided below.
✢ A. When I was listened to, I felt like……
✢ _______________________________________
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
___________________________________

8. ✢ B. When someone disagreed with what I
shared, I felt like…………..
✢ _____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_________
✢ C. When someone ignored with what I shared,
I felt like…….
✢ _____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
____________________

9. ✢ Just as adolescents value much of
the connection with peers you
must realize that building
friendship is a give-and-take
relationship

10. ✢ Strengthening such connections always starts
with a healthy and proactive communication.
✢ Being accepting, open, and understanding to
yourself and others you pave the way to a
well-nurtured development of a healthy self
and a healthy affiliation with others.

11. The Challenges of
Middle and late
Adolescent

12. ✢ Young people, as well as significant others
around them, have to deal with this period
of development called adolescence.
✢ This period of adolescence is the age of
change.
- Gongala (2017)

13. ✢ Challenges refer to a task or a
situation that tests someone’s
abilities. Adolescence has
three stages namely:
a. Early adolescence ( 12-14
years
b. Middle adolescence (15-17
years)
c. Late adolescence (18-20
years)

14. ✢ According to Wayne State University
Physician Group, the following are some
common challenges that adolescents in
both early and middle stages face.

15.  Attitude and Behaviour
✢ Every attitude is a combination of
feelings, beliefs, and evaluations
✢ Behaviour refers to the actions or
reactions of an object or
organism.
✢ Attitude predicts behaviour.

16.  Sexual Relationship
✢ An intimae relationship is an
interpersonal relationship that involves
physical and/or emotional intimacy.
✢ Physical intimacy is characterized by
friendship, platonic love, romantic love,
or sexual activities.
✢ Humans have a general desire to
belong and to love, which is usually
satisfied within an intimate relationship.

17.  Academic Concern
✢ School –related concerns, in
particular, were positively associated
with academic arising from other-
expectations, which were found in
female adolescents only. However, it
is plausible that adolescents who are
academically stressed are also more
likely to display personal concerns.

18. Group Belongingness
✢ A sense of belonging is a human
need, just like the need for food and
shelter. Feeling that you belong is
most important in seeing value in
life and in coping with intensely
painful emotions.

19. Health and Nutrition
✢ Nutrition is the intake of food,
considered in relation to the
body’s dietary needs. Good
nutrition- an adequate, well-
balanced diet combined with
regular physical activity- is a
cornerstone of good health.

20. Developing/ Regaining self-
esteem
✢ It is the act of gaining control
and not being critical of you
to others.

21. Roles
✢ They are part of one’s identity
which specific activities or
obligations for which they are
held accountable when they
assume when they assume or
are assigned to.

22. Material Poverty
✢ It is the scarcity or the lack of a
certain (variant) amount of
material possessions or money.
Absolute poverty, extreme
poverty, or destitution refers to
the complete lack of the means
necessary to meet basic
personal needs such as food,
clothing, and shelter.

23. Parents working
abroad
✢ Several studies showed how
immigration of parents is indeed
heart-breaking for children,
making them long for parental
care, get confused over gender
roles, be vulnerable to abuse, and
even develop consumerist
attitudes.

24. Career choice
✢ It determines success
in the next stage of life.

25. Values and Beliefs
✢ Values are stable long lasting
beliefs about what is important to a
person. They become standards by
which people order their lives and
make their choices. A belief will
develop into a value when the
person’s commitment to it grows
and they see it as being important.

26. Depression
✢ It is a mental condition
characterized by feelings of severe
despondency and dejection,
typically also with feelings of
inadequacy and guilt, often
accompanied by lack of energy and
disturbance of appetite and asleep.

27. Self-Identity
It is a recognition of one’s
potential and qualities as an
individual, especially in relation
to social context.

28. Defining
Responsibilities
✢ This means the state or fact of
being responsible, answerable, or
accountable for something within
one’s power, control, or
management.

29. Time Management
✢ It is the ability to use one’s time
effectively or productively.

30. Journal # 2 Self -Reflect
✢ Direction: Cite a specific personal
experience when you had a
disagreement or an argument with
your parents or legal guardian as an
adolescent.
✢ Answer the following questions:
✢ 1. Were there emotions during that
argument that you tried not to
express? If yes, specify those
emotions and elaborate why you
opted not to express such emotions.

31. ✢ 2. Cite an expectation that you
were not able to meet as an
adolescent. How did you deal
with it?
✢ Parents’ expectation----
✢ Teachers’ expectation---