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When you understand how and why teens think the way they do, it becomes easier to comprehend and manage their behaviour. For adults who are well beyond their own adolescent experience, it can be difficult dealing with a child with relatively predictable behaviour coping with the changes that accompany adolescence.
Each lesson is completed with an assignment for the student to complete and submit to the school for marking. Your tutor will make the assignment and return it to you with suggestions and comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Students studying Adolescent Psychology will undertake a variety of tasks in each lesson, and benefit from the learning aims for each of the lessons:
As children mature their peers become more influential in their lives and their relationships with them evolve. Adolescents have to learn to deal with feelings of sexual attraction as their bodies become stimulated by hormones. They may be involved in teenage romances. They also learn to become more independent from their parents and this means changing social roles as they begin to work out who they are.
According to the famous psychoanalyst, Erikson (1963) we pass through eight different stages of development from infancy to late adulthood and each presents us with a psychosocial conflict we must resolve in order to move forward successfully with our lives. During adolescence the conflict is between developing our identity and role confusion. In the pursuit of self-identity, adolescents test out different roles. In order to distinguish themselves from their parents, they may behave in opposite ways to their parents. For instance, if their parents prefer safe activities they may choose more risky ones. Failure during this stage can lead to confusion about one’s identity or negative identity such as that of a juvenile delinquent.
As adolescents shift from emotional support of parents to peers, they also have more freedom and it can become a stressful time for some. Although adolescence is often painted as a time of ‘storm and stress’ the literature would seem to suggest that it is only stressful for a minority. This minority may experience conflict and stress in their relationships with their parents and adults generally.
Given that during this transition to adulthood adolescents identify with their peers, they become more influenced by their friends. If their friends engage in risky type behaviours or the peers they want to be accepted by do, they are more likely to act in the same way. Of course, overall adolescents are not all purveyors of bad behaviour. It is actually more likely that their friends will try to stop them from behaving poorly. Usually adolescents just develop ways of behaving that demarcate them from younger generations and adults. The interact using their own slang terms and dress in ways that define their groups.
You may work with teenagers in a professional capacity, perhaps as a youth worker, teacher or family counsellor. Others may take this course for more personal reasons, such as better understanding and managing troubled teens in their own family.
With this course you will gain a greater understanding of the influences on an adolescents behaviour and thereby improve your capacity to influence the young person you are dealing with.
Studying Adolescent Psychology provides professional development for persons working in areas such as:
It will also offer the benefit of greater knowledge for:
And anyone wanting to understand more about the adolescent mind.
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