Adolescent

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Chapter 16

• Adolescent
• Psychosocial Development

Michael Hoerger
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Identity and the Self

• Definition consistent view of ones self,
  including values, beliefs, attitudes, roles, and
  aspirations
• From the book
• Possible Selves ones potential identities
• False Selves when ones behavior is inconsistent
  with their self identity
• Sometimes beneficial, sometimes harmful

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Additional types of Selves

• Ideal Self who you wish you could be
• Ought Self who others wish you could be
• Actual Self who you consider yourself to be
  (your identity)
• Psychopathology is related to a discrepancy
  between the actual self and the ought or ideal
  self

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Suicide

• 90 admit to thinking about suicide at some point
  in their lives
• 10 of adolescents attempt suicide
• Parasuicide any self-harm behavior that does not
  result in death (includes nonfatal suicide
  attempts)

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Suicide

• Adolescents are more likely to attempt, adults
  more likely to die
• Females are more likely to attempt, makes more
  likely to die
• Males anger females shame
• Worldwide, people of European ancestry are most
  likely to commit suicide

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• Michael Hoerger
• To cite this textbook
• Berger, K. (2005). The developing person through
  the lifespan. New York Worth.
• To cite this lecture
• Hoerger, M. (2007, March 19). Developmental
  Psychology Adolescent Psychosocial Development.
  Presented at a PSY 220 lecture at Central
  Michigan University.