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Module 4: The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence

The document provides an overview of the challenges of middle and late adolescence. It discusses the physical, emotional, social, and mental developments that adolescents experience. It also outlines two readings on encouragement and being happy. The first reading discusses how encouragement develops psychological hardiness and social interest, and avoids discouraging others. The second reading discusses different aspects of being happy, such as finding strength in forgiveness and learning from failures. The document concludes with activities for students to reflect on experiences with conflict and encouragement, and to make a personal declaration about being happy.

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Module 4: The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence

The document provides an overview of the challenges of middle and late adolescence. It discusses the physical, emotional, social, and mental developments that adolescents experience. It also outlines two readings on encouragement and being happy. The first reading discusses how encouragement develops psychological hardiness and social interest, and avoids discouraging others. The second reading discusses different aspects of being happy, such as finding strength in forgiveness and learning from failures. The document concludes with activities for students to reflect on experiences with conflict and encouragement, and to make a personal declaration about being happy.

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Module 4: The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence

Subject: Personal Development


Subject Teachers: Mary Jean A. Limpag, Joybelle L. Coritico, Mariclaire V. Navarro

Learning Objectives: 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 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.

Lecturette: THE PASSAGE TO ADULTHOOD: CHALLENGES OF LATE


ADOLESCENCE
Physical Development
 Most girls have completed the physical changes related to puberty by age 15.
 Boys are still maturing and gaining strength, muscle mass, and height and are completing the
development of sexual traits.

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.
 Starts to want both physical and emotional intimacy in relationships.
 Experiences of intimate relationships

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.
 Seeks 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.
 Starts to develop moral ideals and to select role models.

Reading: ENCOURAGEMENT 101: THE COURAGE TO BE IMPERFECT By


Timothy D. Evans, Ph.D.
Encouragement is the key ingredient for improving your relationships with others. It is the single most
important skill necessary for getting along with other s – so important that the lack of it could be
considered the primary cause of conflict and misbehavior. Encouragement develops a person’s
psychological hardiness and social interest. Encouragement is the lifeblood of a relationship. And yet
this simple concept is often very hard to put into practice.
Most commonly, we discourage in five general ways:
A.We set standards that are too high for others to meet because we are
overly ambitious.
B.We focus on mistakes as a way to motivate change or improved behavior.
C.We make constant comparisons (self to others, siblings to one another).
D.We automatically give a negative spin to the actions of others.
E.We dominate others by being overly helpful, implying that they are unable to do it as
well.

Activity 1: In a 50 words paragraph, share your experiences about a situation in


which you encountered conflict with other people. Then explain how
encouragement helps you to develop or improve your relationship with them.
Write this on a piece of paper.

Reading: 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, and have poetic moments with friends, even if they 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 the people you love.
Never give up from being happy because life is an incredible show. And you are a special human being!

Activity 2: Slogan or Personal Declaration on Being Happy


1. Read the essay on “Being Happy”.
2. Choose a phrase, sentence, or paragraph that strikes you.
3. Make a slogan or personal declaration 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.

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