Adolescence and emerging adulthood
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Status: S1LectNotes Time: 2025-03-31 Tags: lecturenotes Links:
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Objectives:
understand developmental tasks and growth across domains of function in
- adolescence
- emerging adulthood understand these life stages as periods of diverse development competence and vulnerablilty recognice risk indicators or red flags to pursue in assessment
Take home/Things to note:
Rambles: it is the job of the children to smash the calabash
adolescence ten tasks of adolescence Physical development in adolescence - puberty Brain development identity formation
emerging adulthood - A newer phase which corresponds to our changed society developmental tasks of young adulthood
20-30a peak pohysical development reproductive systms motorability stregths lung capacity peak substance use stds highest death rate and suicide
we see complex thinking abstavt comples goal oritentation and questioning and analysis
social domain identity peer raltionahsips changing roles and relationships developing value sysstems becoming future focused romantic and sexual relationshipsd risktaking/ antisocial behaviour emotional selfregulation extended ranfe and intensisty of emotional experiences emergence fo mental health difficulites
lots of mentla distress in adolescence depression axiety NSSi suicide psychosis etc
assessment assess promote recognise consent assess
implications for assessment and intervention know consider avoid
you need to thrive in the presence of adversity
change in the age of marriage but still age gap
Red flags in adolescence list them
red flags in young adulthood