Adolescent Growth and Development
Kristin Hodges and Maggie Hohfeler
Physical
-Rapid gains in height and weight
- Weight gain from increase in muscles/body fat
- Average teens gains 3.5-4.1 inches respectively
-Development of secondary sex characteristics
- Increased oil production, growth of under arm and facial hair, voice changes, etc.
-Hormonal level changes
-Continued brain development
Cognitive
-Develop advanced reasoning skills
- Think about multiple options and possibilities
- What ifs?
- Thinking about things that cannot be touched, seen, or heard
- Faith, beliefs, trusts
- Thinking about thinking
- Think about how you feel and what you are thinking
- Increase in self consciousness- how you are perceived by others
- Also used to develop strategies: to improve learning, use nemonic devices
Emotional/Social
-Establish an identity
- Integrate opinions of influential people in their life into their likes/dislikes and opinions
- Becoming a self governing person in their relationships
- Make and follow through with their own decisions
- Live by their own right and wrongs
- Become less emotionally dependent on parents
- Begins with friends
- Can see the relationship between their current abilities and their future