Can anybody list the five basic tasks of adolesence? I'm working on a human growth/development essay.?
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..Five? Here are my five -
- Learn about establishing and maintaining mutually satisfying relationships, including love relationships
- Prepare yourself to take the next major career step...a good job, or university
- Develop strengths of character...a lifelong endeavor actually, but with adulthood on the horizon, the young person will need plenty of character strength to deal with the challenges of life on his or her own...
- To become a real person...to gain self-liking, self-worth, self-esteem and self-confidence to the degree that you are comfortable being who you are, independent of group pressures
- To learn how to learn...because after adolescence you will need to learn 99% of what you'll need to know to make your way in the world.
My five, anyway.
According to who? You may want to be more specific.
Robert Havighust identified critical developmental tasks that occur throughout the lifespan, but he had more than 5 for adolescence alone and these were:
1) Achieving new and more mature relations with age-mates of both sexes: The goal: to learn to look upon girls as women and boys as men; to become an adult among adults; to learn to work with others for a common purpose, disregarding personal feelings; to learn to lead without dominating.
2) Achieving a masculine or feminine social role: To accept and to learn a socially approved adult masculine or feminine social role.
3) Accepting one's physique and using the body effectively: The goal: to become proud, or at least tolerant, of one's body; to use and protect one's body effectively and with personal satisfaction.
4) Achieving emotional independence of parents and other adults: The goal: to become free from childish dependence on parents; to develop affection for parents without dependence upon them.
5) Achieving assurance of economic independence: The goal: to feel able to make a living, if necessary. This is primarily a task for boys, in our society, but it is of increasing importance to girls.
6) Selecting and preparing for an occupation: The goal: to choose an occupation for which one has the necessary ability; to prepare for this occupation.
7) Preparing for marriage and family life: The goal: to develop a positive attitude toward family life and having children; and (mainly for girls) to get the knowledge necessary for home management and child rearing.
8) Developing intellectual skills and concepts necessary for civic competence: The goal: to develop concepts law, government, economics, politics, geography, human nature, and social institutions which fit the modern world; to develop language skills and reasoning ability necessary for dealing effectively with the problems of a modern democracy. Individual differences in mental development show themselves principally as differences in: (a) acquiring language and meanings, (2) acquiring concepts, (3) interests and motivation.
9) Desiring and achieving socially responsible behavior: The goal: to participate as a responsible adult in the life of the community, region, and nation; to take account of the values of society in one's personal behavior.
10) Acquiring a set of values and an ethical system as a guide behavior: The goal: to form a set of values that are possible of realization; to develop a conscious purpose of realizing these values; to define man's place in the physical world and in relation to other human beings; to keep one's world picture and one's values in harmony with each other. Definition: a value is an object or state of affairs which is desired
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