Early Adolescence 1214 Years Of Age

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Early Adolescence12-14 Years Of Age

• By Bryan Harris
• Jeremy MacMicking
• James Jordan

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General Information

• Difficult period of life
• Ex- substance abuse, vandalism, violent crimes
• 9/10 young people murdered in US (Reaves, 1993)?
• Suicide rate has tripled in 30 years (Wartik,
  1991)?

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General Information Continued

• Leisure activities help prevent negative activity
• Most adolescents teens usually have a lot of
  anxiety and depression
• Most adolescents tend to be vigilant and usually
  dont like to listen to authority

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Characteristics

• Puberty begins
• Engage in higher thoughts
• Greater ability to do work (physical, mental,
  emotional)?
• Movement Towards Independence

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Developmental Functioning

• Physical
• Cognitive
• Social
• Emotional

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Physical

• Growing into young adults
• Making transition from child into young adult
• Facial hair, leg hair, girls begin to bloom, guys
  begin to get taller
• Voice changes

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Cognitive

• Mostly interested in present, with limited
  thoughts of the future
• Intellectual interests expand and gain in
  importance
• Greater ability to do work (physical, mental,
  emotional)?

Brain Waves
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Social

• Develop interaction with peers
• Activities become more involved- partying, going
  to the mall without parents, carnivals
• Peer pressure becomes heavier
• More developed intellectual speech

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Emotional

• Deeper feelings
• Begin more personally attached to
  important things

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Trends And Challenges

• Adolescent pregnancy is becoming a bigger trend
• Drug and alcohol abuse are becoming more common
• Take up one sport more seriously than another-
  focus on future in sport

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Types Of Play And Recreation

• Organized sports become more competitive
• Mall, Movies, Sporting Events, Parties
  independently

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Values And Benefits

• Rule and limit testing
• Capacity for abstract thought?
• Development of ideals and selection of role
  models
• More consistent evidence of conscience

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Work Cited

• http//www.aacap.org/page.ww?sectionFactsforFam
  iliesnameNormalAdolescentDevelopmentPartI
• http//www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/adolescenc
  e/partx6.html
• http//pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/
  full/116/1/281

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The End