The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence

The Challenges of Middle and 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.
 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.
 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.

Portfolio Output No. 7: Role Play on Challenges of Middle Adolescence in a role play on a specific situation
in which a developmental challenge of middle adolescence is seen in your everyday living.
1. Practice your role play with your group mates.
2. Perform your role play in class.
3. Make a report on your group’s brainstorming and performance. Include this report and the
script.
Portfolio Output No. 8: 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.
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, 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 the people you love. Never give up from being happy because life is an
incredible show. And you are a special human being!
LESSON 3
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]
In your journal, for each number, mark √ for yes, X for no, or ? if you’re 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.
1. I did really well on an exam. I said to my friends, “I got the top score. What did you get?”
Did I T.H.I.N.K. before I spoke? T H I N K
2. One of my friends was bragging about getting a good score on a test, and I didn't want to tell him
I failed. I said, "Congratulations!" then started talking about something else.
3. People kept telling me about this strange color Mrs. Jenkins dyed her hair. When I saw her, I
didn't think it looked that bad, so I told her, “Your hair’s not as weird as everyone says it is.”
4. A woman with a big belly was about to enter the building. I told my friend, “We need to go open
the door for that lady. She’s pregnant.”
5. A boy told his friend to hold the door open for me because I’m pregnant. I said, “Hey, I’m not
pregnant! You sayin’ I’m fat?”
6. A boy told his friend to hold the door open for me because I’m pregnant. I said, “Thank you for
holding the door, but I’m actually not pregnant.”
7. I saw a couple of kids cheating on a test. I went up to the teacher after class and told him what
I’d seen.
8. I saw a girl looking at her phone during a test. I went up to the teacher after class and told him
she was cheating.
9. I saw Maria’s boyfriend leaving the movie theater with another girl. I called Maria and
said her boyfriend was cheating on her.
10.I saw Maria’s boyfriend leaving the movie theater with another girl. I went up to them and said
hi, and asked “Where’s Maria tonight?”
Did I T.H.I.N.K. before I spoke? T H I N K Remember: T.H.I.N.K. Before You

Speak. Have Mindful Speech.
Portfolio Output No. 6: Mindfulness with Reflection

WRITE YOUR ANSWER WITH JOURNAL NOTEBOOK
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 given) 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/2016/01/think-before-you-speak-2.html
Remember: T.H.I.N.K. Before You Speak. Have Mindful Speech.

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 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.

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

 The experience of intimate partnerships.

 Is more and more aware of social behaviors of friends.

 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).

 Has a better understanding of complex problems and issues.

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

2. Perform your role play in class.

2. Choose a phrase, sentence, or paragraph that strikes you.

Reading: BEING HAPPY

Did I T.H.I.N.K. before I spoke? T H I N K

Did I T.H.I.N.K. before I spoke? T H I N K Remember: T.H.I.N.K. Before You

Portfolio Output No. 6: Mindfulness with Reflection

Analyze each case on How Mindful Am I? Answer the following questions:

Remember: T.H.I.N.K. Before You Speak. Have Mindful Speech.

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