A varied collection of production related to that cannot be practically or

conveniently traced
MODULE 3:
Developmental Stages in Middle and Late Adolescence

BIG QUESTION: How can adolescents be prepared for adult life by accomplishing
various developmental tasks according to developmental stages?

Objectives:

At the end of this module, learners will be able to:

1. Classify various developmental tasks according to developmental stage;

2. Evaluate their development in comparison with persons of the same age
group; and
3. List ways to become responsible adolescents prepared for adult life.

“MATURITY is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for

long-term values.”
- Joshua Liebman –

ACTIVITY: My Personal Timeline

A personal timeline portrays the influential events and happenings of a
person’s life so that he can understand where he has gone wrong and right in the
past. It helps to plan the future in a better constructive way.
Using a bond paper, write the major events in your life and the significant
people in your life. You may add your age, specific dates and places. You may draw
the timeline horizontally, vertically, diagonally or even using ups and down
depending on your imagination. Be creative in your representations. You may also
use symbols, figures and drawings. Think of a title for your personal timeline.
You may use crayons or art materials depending on the available resources
or just a simple paper and pen may be fine. You can also go for the personal
timeline website template samples available online. The link is
https://www.template.net/business/timeline-templates/personal-timeline-template/

Portfolio Output No. 5: My Personal Timeline with Reflection

Write about your Personal Timeline which you made in class. Answer the
following questions:
1. Is there a ‘center’ or a central theme in your timeline and life? If you will give
a title for your timeline what would it be and why?
2. Identify the turning points in your timeline. What were the thoughts, feelings
and actions that you experienced?
3. Who are/were the most significant people in your life? How?
4. What would you change or add, if you could? Also, how would each of these
changes or additions affect your life, or even change its present course?
5. Continue to your future, where do you want to be in a year, 5 years, 10
years? What do you expect your future timeline will be?
Source: http://bkigs.psychcentral.com/relationships/2012/08/the-timeline-of-your-
life-story-probing-to-create-shift-to-life-liberating-meanings-2-of-2/

Reading: DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES

Human Development focuses on human growth and changes across the
lifespan, including physical, cognitive, social, intellectual, perceptual, personality
and emotional growth.
The study of human development is essential to understanding how humans
learn, mature and adapt. Throughout their lives, humans go through various stages
of development.
The human being is either in a state of growth or decline, but either condition
imparts change. Some aspects of our life change very little over time, are
consistent. Other aspects change dramatically. By understanding these changes, we
can better respond and plan ahead effectively.
Developmental Characteristics
Stage
1. Pre-natal Age when hereditary endowments and sex are fixed and
(Conception to all body features, both external and internal are
Birth) developed.
2. Infancy (Birth to Foundation age when basic behavior are organized and
2 years) many ontogenetic maturation skills are developed.
3. Early Childhood Pre-gang age, exploratory, and questioning. Language
(2 to 6 years) and elementary reasoning are acquired and initial
socialization is experienced.
4. Late Childhood Gang and creativity age when self-help skills, social
(6 to 12 years) skills, school skills, and play are developed.
5. Adolescence Transition age from childhood to adulthood when sex
(puberty to 18 maturation and rapid physical development occur
years) resulting to changes in ways of feeling, thinking and
acting
6. Early adulthood Age of adjustment to new patterns of life and roles such
(18 to 40 years) as spouse, parent and bread winner.
7. Middle Age (40 Transition age when adjustments to initial physical and
years to mental decline are experienced.
retirement)
8. Old Age Retirement age when increasingly rapid physical and
(Retirement to mental decline are experienced.
Death)
Source: http://www.apa.org/action/science/developmental/

Reading: HAVIGHURST’S DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS DURING THE LIFE SPAN

Robert J. Havighurst elaborated the Developmental Tasks Theory in the most

systematic and extensive manner. His main assertion is that development is
continuous throughout the entire lifespan, occurring in stages, where the individual
moves from one stage to the next by means of successful resolution of problems or
performance of developmental tasks. These tasks are those that are typically
encountered by most people in the culture where the individual belongs. If the
person successfully accomplishes and masters the developmental tasks, he feels
pride and satisfaction, and consequently earns his community or society’s approval.
This success provides a sound foundation which allows the individual to accomplish
tasks to be encountered at later stages. Conversely, if the individual is not
successful at accomplishing a task, he is unhappy and is not accorded the desired
approval by society, resulting in the subsequent experience of difficulty when faced
with succeeding developmental tasks. This theory presents the individual as an
active learner who continually interacts with a similarly active social environment.

Havighurst proposed a bio-psychosocial model of development, wherein the

developmental tasks at each stage are influenced by the individual’s biology
(physiological maturation and genetic makeup), his psychology (personal values
and goals) and sociology (specific culture to which the individual belongs).

THE DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS SUMMARY TABLE

Infancy and Early Middle Childhood Adolescence (13-18)

Childhood (0-5) (6-12)
Learning to walk Learning physical skills Achieving mature
Learning to take solid necessary relations with both sexes
foods Building a wholesome Achieving a masculine or
Learning to control the attitude towards oneself feminine social role
elimination of body Learning to get along Accepting one’s physique
wastes with age-mates Achieving emotional
Learning sex differences Learning an appropriate independence of adults
and sexual modesty sex role Preparing for marriage
Acquiring concepts and Developing concepts and family life
language to describe necessary for everyday Preparing for an
social and physical reality living economic career
Readiness for reading Developing conscience, Acquiring values and an
Learning to distinguish morality, and a scale of ethical system to guide
right from wrong and values behavior
developing a conscience Achieving personal Desiring and achieving
independence socially responsibility
Developing acceptable behavior
attitudes toward society

Early Adulthood Middle Adulthood (30-60) Later Maturity (61+)

(19-30)
Selecting a mate Helping teenage children Adjusting to decreasing
Learning to live with a to become happy and strength and health
partner responsible adults Adjusting to retirement
Starting a family Achieving adult social and and reduced income
Rearing children civic responsibility Adjusting to death of
Managing a home Satisfactory career spouse
Starting an occupation achievement Establishing relations with
Assuming civic Developing adult leisure one’s own age group
responsibility time activities Meeting social and civic
 Relating to one’s spouse obligations
as a person Establishing satisfactory
Accepting the living quarters
physiological changes of
middle age
Adjusting to aging parent
Source: Gazzingan, Leslie B., Francisco, Joseph C., Aglubat, Linofe R., Parentela,
Ferdinand O., Tuason, Vevian T. (2013). Psychology: Dimensions of the Human
Mind. Mutya Publishing House, Inc.

Activity: WORKSHEET ON DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS OF BEING IN GRADE 12

Using the Developmental Tasks Summary Table above, assess your own level
of developmental as a Grade 12 student. Use the worksheet below:

What are the expected What are the expected What are the expected
tasks you have tasks you have partially tasks you have not
successfully accomplished? accomplished?
accomplished?

Processing Questions:
1. Being in Grade 12, what are the developmental tasks expected of you? Rate
yourself from 1-10 (10 as the highest) whether you have accomplished those
expected tasks?
2. As you are in Grade 12, you are in transition from high school to college,
from being an adolescent to young adult. How do you feel about this
transition? What is your turning point?
3. Do you think you are ready in this transition which may mean more
responsibilities and greater accountability? If no, what are the expected tasks
you need to work on? If yes, what are the ways so you can better plan for
the future?

Activity: HOW MINDFUL AM I?

For each of the following situations, decide whether the person followed
these guidelines for mindful speech:
Is what I want to say True?
Is what I want to say Helpful?
 Am I the best one to say it?
Is it necessary to say it Now?
Is it Kind to this person and others?

[THINK definition from Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety by Dr. Christopher Willard]

Mark / for yes, X for no, or ? if you are not sure. There could be more than
one “correct” answer. The purpose of this activity is to reflect on the situations and
whether you’ve witnessed or experienced something similar in your own life.

Portfolio Output No. 6: Mindfulness with Reflection

Analyze each case on How Mindful Am I? Answer the following questions:
1. Has someone ever asked you a question that you really didn’t want to
answer?
How did you respond?
2. Have you ever gotten (or give) a “compliment” that really wasn’t a
compliment?
How did you feel afterwards?
3. Did you ever do something to be helpful that turned out badly? What
happened?
What do you wish had happened?
4. Have you ever caught someone cheating (either on a test or on a
boyfriend/girlfriend)? Did you say anything? Why or why not?
5. Have you ever gotten in trouble because someone caught you cheating (or
thought you were cheating)? What happened? What do you wish had
happened?
6. In what other situations have you seen someone T.H.I.N.K. (or not) before
speaking? What happened?
Source: http://www.mindfulteachers.org/2016/think-before-you-speak-2.html

Reading: LIVING MINDFULLY

Living mindfully is like being an artist: you need the right tools to practice
your craft, and you need to constantly refine your technique to achieve your
creative potential. In the same way, using the present moment tools below will
help you to hone a consistent mindfulness practice that will in time lead to a
more aware, compassionate and fulfilling way of life.

Tool 1: Breathe Mindfully. Use your breath as an anchor to still your mind and
bring your focus back to the present moment.
Tool 2: Listen Deeply. Listen with intention; let others fully express
themselves and focus on understanding how they think and feel.
Tool 3: Cultivate Insight. See life as it is, allowing each experience to be an
opportunity for learning.
Tool 4: Practice Compassion. Consider the thoughts and feelings of others
and let tenderness, kindness and empathy be your guides.
Tool 5: Limit Reactivity. Observe rather than be controlled by your emotions.
Pause, breathe, and choose a skillful response based on thoughtful speech and
non-violence under every condition.
Tool 6: Express Gratitude. Practice gratitude daily and expand it outward,
appreciating everyone and everything you encounter.
Tool 7: Nurture Mutual Respect. Appreciate our common humanity and value
different perspectives as well as our own.
Tool 8: Build Integrity. Cultivate constructive values and consistently act from
respect, honesty and kindness.
Tool 9: Foster Leadership. Engage fully in life and in community. Share your
unique talents and generosity so that others can also be inspired.
Tool 10: Be Peace. Cultivate your own inner peace, becoming an agent for
compassionate action and social good.
Which of the tools do you use most often? Which tools do you use at least often?
Can you think of ways to incorporate those tools into your life? Which one could
you try today?
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mindfulteachers.org/2015/04/how-mindful-am-i-quiz.html