Role of the Adult with Adolescents

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Role of the Adult with Adolescents

• Lalit P. Ecka M.A., M.H.P.E., Dr.P.H.
• Stephanie Romero, M.A.

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Introduction

• Adolescents like butterflies undergo a gargantuan
  developmental metamorphosis, before embarking
  into adulthood.
• They remain as adolescents for a relative short,
  but a significant 12 of their life span.
  However, they will spend about 75 of their lives
  as adults.
• Nurturing adolescents during this crucial
  formative period will profoundly influence their
  adult years. The values, principles, and
  attitudes they will imbibe, the life skills they
  will learn will eventually become a strong
  foundation in building skyscrapers for the rest
  of their adult years.

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Introduction continued

• The changes teens experience determine much about
  who they are their work ethic, interests,
  self-esteem, morality, and who they will become.
  This in turn shapes society.
• Teachers play a critical role in determining the
  kinds of people who will lead us into the future.
  Educating teenagers is not easy, but it is
  definitely rewarding. As the world becomes
  smaller and our activities more global,
  teachers quite literally are changing the world
  one teenager at a time

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Theories of Development

• Erik Erikson
• Abraham Maslow
• Maria Montessori

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Erik EriksonLife Span Developmental View of
Personality

• Adolescence
• 5th Stage - Identity versus role confusion
• Adulthood
• 6th Stage - Intimacy versus isolation
• 7th Stage - Generativity versus self-absorption
  and stagnation
• 8th Stage - Ego integrity versus despair

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Identity versus Role Confusion

• it leads them to the new ego strength of
  fidelity, which is the ability to sustain ones
  freely pledged loyalties

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• It is very difficult and sometimes impossible for
  adolescents to make commitments, because of an
  inner need to avoid identity foreclosure. Because
  commitment is so difficult, some adolescents
  sometimes enter a psychosocial moratorium where
  as others find it troubling to achieve a free
  moratorium state.

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Identity versus Role Confusion

• it leads them to the new ego strength of
  fidelity, which is the ability to sustain ones
  freely pledged loyalties

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Intimacy versus Isolation

• young adults develop the ego strength of mature
  love, which is the mutuality of devotion forever
  subduing the antagonisms between one another

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Generativity versus Self-absorption and Stagnation

• developing the ability to care for the next
  generation

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Ego Integrity versus Despair

• emerges the ego strength of wisdom a
  thoughtful, hopeful effort to find the value and
  meaning of life in the face of ones finite years
  of life

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Abraham MaslowHierarchy of Needs Theory

• Physiological
• Safety
• Social
• Esteem
• Self-actualization

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Physiological Needs

• Bodily needs including hunger, thirst, shelter,
  and sexual drives.

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Safety Needs

• Include security and protection from physical and
  emotional harm.

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Social Needs

• Include affection, belongingness, acceptance, and
  friendship.

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Esteem Needs

• Internal esteem factors such as self-respect,
  autonomy, and achievement.
• External esteem factors such as status,
  recognition, and attention.

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Self-actualization Needs

• Include growth, achieving ones potential and
  self-fulfillment.