Adolescence I

Adolescence I

1. Adolescent: Erickson: Identity vs. role confusion:

   • Find one's place in the world.
     • self-certainty vs apathy
       • anticipation of achievement vs. work paralysis
         • role experimentation vs. negative identity

2. 47% report having had intercourse

3. National Youth Risk Survey: Most adolescents do not get the recomended amount of fruits & Vegetables

4. ADOLESCENT BRAINS

   • 1. Able to contain larger amounts of info, 2. Ability to hypothesize, 3. problem solving ability equivalent to adults in cold cognition states.
     • 3 NEW cognitive abilities for adolescents
       • 1. ability to contemplate the future, 2. Capacity to Empathize, 3. consider hypotheticals
   • Piaget: Adolescent
     • Formal Operational Thought: 1. Capacity for hypothetical reasoning, 2. can use symbols to solve problems
     • Develop capacity for abstract problem solving
       • Hypothesis
       • solution testing

5. Freud: Genital Stage

   • Develope libido capable of reproduction and sexual intimacy.

6. Kegan: Stages of social maturity / orders of consciousness

   • Affiliation v. Abandonment
     • search for membership
       • acceptance and group identity vs: a sense of being left behind.
   • Piaget: Stage Theory
     • Formal Operational Thought

7. KOHLBERG:

   • Theory of moral development
     • Post-Conventional morality
       • develop moral principals that transcend one's society - individual, ethics, societal rights, and universal principal of right and wrong.

8. Marcia: Identity Status

   • Ego-identity statuses
     • Identity diffusion
       • foreclosure
       • Moratorium
       • identity achievement

9. EATING DISORDERS

   • Anorexia Nervosa
   • Binge Eating Disorder