The document discusses several key factors that affect the period of adolescence: 1. Generation gap can cause struggles as adolescents assert their independence from established adult societies. 2. Emotional instability is common as adolescents experience rapid physical, mental, and emotional development and sensitivity. 3. Career consciousness emerges as adolescents near adulthood and consider education paths related to future careers. 4. Adolescence requires sensitive handling as it is a period of significant development, though also potential "storm and stress." Open communication and guidance from trusted individuals can help adolescents through this period.

1. FACTORS AFFECTING
PERIOD OF
ADOLESCENE

2. 1.GENERATION GAP
• It is the adolescent who happens to be the most affected because of
generation gap. The adolescent lives in the peerage company, representing
a changing society, a society in a state of flux.
• The adolescent is still not matured enough to have developed his own
personality to assert his views or attitudes.
• The society of the adults has ever been ignoring the ideas and the views of
the adolescents, entailing a constant struggle between an established
society and the society laboring to be emerged. The generation gap is
apparently perceivable in the clash between the adolescents and the
established society of the adults

3. 2.EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY
• The period of adolescence is a period of difficulty also because of
emotional instability. During the period one moves fast towards the climax
of development— physical, mental and emotional, one has to traverse
through a period of fast changes also
• An adolescent happens to be very emotional; very sensitive. Sometimes,
gets nervous through the ebb and flows of emotions.
• He is having more of self-consciousness, and when he feels his self to
have been hurt, he loses control over himself; he may either get very upset,
or, may grow nervous when he finds the entire situation to be against him.
The adolescent should be treated with sympathy and sensitivity.

4. 3.CAREER CONSCIOUSNESS
• During the latter years of adolescence, as one proceeds towards
adulthood, one starts feeling concern about one’s career. The selection
of courses and subjects is made with the targeted career in mind
• The adolescent attains the adult level of cognitive development before
he or she is actually adult
• Because of this development, an adolescent understands where the
best chances for his bright career lies; and how he needs to prepare
himself for such a career.

5. 4.TREATING THE ADOLESCENTS
• Adolescence is a period of great importance as it is the period
of fast and vast development in all fields—physical, mental
and emotional.
• It is through adolescence that a child grows to full adulthood.
• Nevertheless, it is a period of storm and stress that needs a
very sensible and sensitive handling of the adolescent is
required.

6. 5.GOOD LITERATURE
• Interest in reading rapidly grows during adolescence. This interest
should be further inculcated by the adults of the family, and teachers
of the school. If during this period, one does not develop interest in
reading, it would hinder one’s scholastic progress.
• Only such students can grow into eminent scholars who are
voracious readers. But equally important is the fact that the children
should read only the good books, with contents which can instill
wholesome and useful ideas and feelings into their fast growing and
highly impressionable minds.

7. 6. SOCIALIZATION
• According to Piaget, the years when one reaches to the apex level of cognitive development, are
the years of adolescence. In achieving this stage, socialization has its very important contribution to
make.
• Hence, it is for the parents and teachers to see that the growing child gets a very suitable social
milieu where he can indulge himself into a variety of activities offering occasions for rich interactions.
• The cognitive and moral development has very positive correlation with the social milieu of an
individual. Students come in contact with one another while indulging in curricular and co-curricular
activities such as games, sports, scouting, outing, excursions or tours or picnic and so on.
• The parents and teachers should provide guidance to the adolescents in making suitable choice of
social circles. The impact of teachers, and, of some other adults that the adolescent comes in
contact with, also happens to be very important. But the greatest impact happens to be that of the
peer-group.

8. During the period of adolescence, significant others like parents,
teachers, friends, peerage, and community leaders play an important
role for their holistic development.
Open communication between the adolescent and the adults is also
very significant to guide the adolescent especially in decision-
making.
 For the adolescents, they need to be open-minded and
understanding in every situation they might experience with the
use of critical and analytical thinking skills and communicative skills
 Participation in the activities of the community can also be
beneficial if guided properly with the responsible adults.

9. Directions: Analyze each picture
below and give 1 or 2 statement
on how you can develop yourself
positively with them.

14. Directions: Below is a diagram showing the
significant people that may contribute to your
development. In each circle identify by writing
the names of those significant people that marks
a great impact to your development as an
adolescent and write the influences they have
contributed that makes them significant in
development as adolescent.

15. TTTT
THE PEOPLE WHO SORROUNDS ME
ACTIVITY 1.4

16. 1. How those people you have identified above
influenced you in your development?
2. What influences they have contributed that makes
them significant in your development as an
adolescent?
FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS:

17. THANK YOU
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