PGIS 7: Making Choices
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Are they ready for “the Real World” of high school pressures? This workshop engages parents and guardians in a series of conversations about partnering with youth about making wise choices, sharing values and expectations, and setting meaningful rules and consequences. Find out what Brain Science, Social Psychology, and education experts tells us about adolescent decision making to help inform your thoughts about curfews, risks, sex, drugs, relationships, and more. How can you hang on and let go at the same time?
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PGIS 7: Making Choices
- 1. Seattle Girls’ School Parent/Guardian Information Series Session Seven: Helping Them Make Choices May 17, 2010 Rosetta Eun Ryong LeeRosetta Eun Ryong Lee
- 2. Introductions Warm-Up Questions As your girl heads into high school, what are your greatest hopes and fears? What kind of relationship would you like to have with her? What would you most like out of our session today? (Please jot down your questions or requests on a note card) QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. Rosetta Eun Ryong LeeRosetta Eun Ryong Lee
- 3. • Learn a little about what experts have to say on adolescents, maturity, and decision making • Clarify personal values which can then get communicated to girls • Share approaches and ideas • Get questions answered Tonight’s Goals Rosetta Eun Ryong LeeRosetta Eun Ryong Lee
- 4. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Disclaimers and Other Food for Thought
- 5. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Agenda • Adolescent Brain Development • With or Without Peers • Rules, Discipline, and Consequences • Values Clarification • Round Table Discussions
- 6. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Adolescent Decisions: The Rule of 7s (a medical approach) • Under 7: not capable • 7-14: presumed incapable unless proven otherwise • 14-21: Presumed capable unless proven otherwise Cardwell v. Bechtol 724 SW 2d 739 (Tenn 1987)
- 7. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee The Problem • Cognitive abilities ≠ performance • Analysis ≠ primary mode of decision- making • Competence ≠ use of that competence Kluczynski. Child Development 2001; 72:844
- 8. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee The Two Brains • Rational Brain and Emotional Brain • Both Valuable, Both Able to Mislead • Emotional System’s Evolutionary Origin Epstein. Stanford Social Innovation Review. Spring 2006.
- 9. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee The Emotional Brain • Pattern Recognition Without Conscious Awareness • Motivates Behavior Change Through Feelings, autonomic Responses • First Impression • Thin Slice of Information Gladwell. Blink. NY: Little, Brown & Co. 2005.
- 10. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Adolescent Brain Development • Not fully matured till mid 20s • Maturation occurs “back to front” • Pre-frontal cortex (PFC) is last to mature • Imbalance: Less active pre-frontal, more active amygdala • Males vs Females
- 11. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Pre-Frontal Cortex: PFC • High level reasoning • Decision-making • Impulse control • Assessment of consequences • Planning, strategizing, organizing • Inhibiting inappropriate behavior • Adjusting behavior when the situation changes • Setting priorities • Estimating and understanding probabilities
- 12. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee PFC vs Amygdala PFC: Situation → Assess → Plan Amygdala: Situation → Emotion/Feeling → React
- 13. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Peer Pressure • Computerized risk-taking tests done alone and while watched by friends: – Adults: peers have no effect – Adolescents: peers doubles the number of risks taken • Brain scans at the same time suggest presence of friends activates a different part of the brain Laurence Steinberg
- 14. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Implications • They ARE capable • Circumstances matter • Amygdala first, PFC last • Social + Emotional + Intellectual = Decision • Gut response first, reason second
- 15. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Respecting Her • Involve her in decision- making • Recognize her developing capacity • Recognize that, even at 17, her decision-making may be different than “mature” decision-making • Recognize situations that influence rational decision- making • Limits are necessary
- 16. Stretch Break and Conversations Rosetta Eun Ryong LeeRosetta Eun Ryong Lee QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture.
- 17. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Knowing Yourself
- 18. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Values Clarification
- 19. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Adolescent Time Line
- 20. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee What If…
- 21. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Where Do You Stand?
- 22. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Where to Go From Here
- 23. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Questions and Answers
- 24. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee Resources • Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. Nurture Shock. 2009. • Doug Diekema. “Two Cases Revisited: Reflections of Clinical Ethics” NWABR. 2010. • Northwest Association for Biomedical Research (NWABR). An Ethics Primer. • Mary Pipher, Ph.D., Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls • Rachel Simmons, Odd Girl Out, Odd Girl Speaks Out, and Curse of the Good Girl • Shankar Vandantam. The Hidden Brain. 2010.
Editor's Notes
- Target Audience: All Families
- Keep in Mind - material speaks in generalities and norms. There is no textbook teenager. Take information for what it is - another piece of the puzzle in raising your child. She may fall along more extremes of variability, as may your values. The important thing is to come up with something that is right for you and your family.
- Rachel Simmons - Plague of the “sorry”: perfunctory like “bless you.” Really means, I don’t want to lose you so let’s call truce. But incident is recorded in memory to bring up at a later fight. Rumors - someone else does the “dirty work”