special topic course

2. Today’s teenagers are flooded with social
pressures, academic demands and a whole
host of hormones as parents have long
forgotten about.

4. The most Common Problem that
teenagers face today
 Self-Esteem and Body Image
 Bullying
 Depression

5.  Drugs and
Alcohol
 Cyber Addiction
 Unwanted sex and teen
pregnancy

6. How does teenagers solve
their problems in this
generation?

7. The Philippines tops
the list with 93.9
percent of the nation
reportedly signed up to
Facebook.
Philippines 93.9%
Israel 91%
Turkey 90.9%
Chile 90.2%
Argentina 89.2%
Malaysia 88.4%
Indonesia 87.5%
Peru 87.2%
Colombia 86.9%
Venezuela 86.2%

8. “Vamping
teenagers”

9.  When teenagers experience
strong feelings of stress,
confusion, self-doubt, pressure
to succeed, financial
uncertainty, and other fears
while growing up.
 Suicide is the third leading
cause of death for young
people between ages of 15
and 24 years

10. During a 12 months preceding survey in
2008
□ 24.1% of students had thought seriously
about attempting suicide
□ 17.7% of students had made a specific plan
to attempt suicide
□ 8.7% of the students had attempted suicide

11. Over 1 million people commit suicide every
year, making it to the tenth-leading cause of
death worldwide.
There are estimated 10 to 20 million non-fatal
attempted suicides every year worldwide

12. A 16-year-old boy, believed to have been broken-
hearted over the suicide of his girlfriend, ended
up taking his life as well in their house in
Novaliches, Quezon City.
Teenage suicidal stories..

13. Two teen pregnant women facing
different circumstances took their
lives separately, with one of them
jumping off a 27-story building and
the other, by drinking water mixed
with a toxic ingredient.
Teenage suicidal stories..

14. Alexander Robert Santiago is the youngest son of
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago.
The aspiring law student from the Ateneo Law
School committed suicide on November 20, 2003
by shooting himself in the neck inside his room at
the Santiago residence in La Vista, Quezon City. The
young Santiago was reportedly depressed about not
being admitted at the University of the Philippines
College of Law after failing the subject on
Constitutional Law.

16.  An unintended
pregnancy during
adolescence.
Approximately
750,000 of 15- to 19-
year-olds become
pregnant each year,
according to The
American College of
Obstetricians and
Gynecologists,

17. Among girls aged 15 to 19, whereas only 6.3% were
already mothers in 2002, by 2012 around 13.6% were
already mothers.
 Second (and expectedly), premarital sex among the
youth is also on the rise: In 2002, only 23.2% of youth
have engaged in premarital sex, but in 2013 this has
increased to 32% (amounting to about 6.2 million
youth).

18. Peer
Pressure
Absent Parents
Glamorization of Pregnancy
Lack of Knowledge
Sexual Abuse or Rape
Teenage Drinking
Causes of Early Pregnancy

19. According to the latest Young Adult
Fertility and Sexuality (YAFS) study,
around 14 per cent of girls aged 15 to 19 are
either pregnant for the first time or are
already mothers.

20. Approximately 5,000
young people under the
age of 21 die as a result of
underage drinking.

21. This includes about 1,900 deaths from motor vehicle
crashes, 1,600 as a result of homicides, 300 from
suicide, as well as hundreds from other injuries such
as falls, burns, and drowning.

22. young people? They disrespect
their elders; they disobey their
parent. They riot in the streets,
inflamed with wild notions.
Their morals are decaying.
What is to become of them?”
- PLATO 4TH CENTURY

24. Prepared by:
MS. JUDY ANN CABISIDAN
DORIA

25. http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/pdf/5301.pdf
http://www.yurtopic.com/family/parenting/teenage-problems.html
http://www.slideshare.net/marinosa/teen-problems-28374108?related=1
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-24/an-number-of-teenage-pregnancies-doubled-in-philippines-in-last/5341334
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-24/an-number-of-teenage-pregnancies-doubled-in-philippines-in-last/5341334
Children’s Spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development by Tony Eaude
www.learningmatters.co.uk
Child’s guidance by Ellen G. White
http://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Families/Facts_for_Families_Pages/Teen_Suicide_10.aspx
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/306746/woman-pregnant-teen-commit-suicide
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