PDV101 (3RD QTR)

• Ideal self: The self that you aspire to be, possessing characteristics similar to that of a mentor or some other worldly figure
• Actual self: The self that you actually see, having characteristics that you were nurtured or, in some cases, born to have
• Self-awareness is defined as having or showing realization, participation, commitment, and knowledge of one’s values development
• Be aware of your beliefs: What we believe will determine our attitudes about it, create our feelings, direct our actions, and influence us to do well or poorly, or succeed or fail.
• Empowering beliefs: Beliefs that make us feel good, help us experience how limitless we actually are, motivate us to get the most out of every single moment.
• Limiting beliefs: Beliefs that don’t make us feel good, that keep us “safe” (or at least that is their intention) inside a box, ones that serve to stop us from living the most incredible life possible.
• Be aware of your attitudes: Your attitudes are the perspective from which you view life.
• Be aware of your actions/behaviors: The step that most directly controls our success or failure is our behavior – what we do or do not do. How we act, what we do, each moment of each day will determine whether or not we will be successful that moment or that day in everything that we do.
• Personal effectiveness: Making use of all the personal resources – talents, skills, energy, and time, to enable you to achieve life goals.
• 1. Determination: Allows you to focus only on achieving a specific goal without being distracted by less important things or spontaneous desires. It may be developed with the help of self-discipline exercises.
• 2. Self-confidence: Appears in the process of personal development, as a result of getting aware of yourself, your actions and their consequences. Self-confidence is manifested in speech, appearance, dressing, gait, and physical condition.
• 3. Persistence: Makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles – problems, laziness, bad emotional state, etc. It reduces the costs of overcoming obstacles. It can also be developed with the help of self-discipline exercise.
• 4. Managing stress: Helps combat stress that arises in daily life from the environment and other people. Stress arises from the uncertainty in an unknown situation when a lack of information creates the risk of negative consequences of your actions. It increases efficiency in the actively changing environment.
• 5. Problem-solving skills: Help cope with the problems encountered with a lack of experience. It increases efficiency by adopting new ways of achieving goals when obtaining a new experience.
• 6. Creativity: Allows you to find extraordinary ways to carry out a specific action that no one has tried to use. It can lead to a decrease or an increase of costs, but usually the speed of action is greatly increased when using creative tools.
• 7. Generating ideas: Helps you achieve goals using new, original, unconventional ideas. Idea is a mental image of an object formed by the human mind, which can be changed before being implemented in the real world.
• Adolescence is a transitional phase of growth and development between childhood and adulthood.
• The age range of adolescence is between ages 10 and 24 (WHO).
• "Whole Person Development" is a progressive process through which the intellectual, physical, professional, psychological, social, and spiritual capacities of an individual can be holistically enhanced.
• physical: Hormonal changes and development.
• Cognitive: Changes in the way the brain functions
• Emotional: How adolescents process emotions and stress.
• Social: Changes in familial, social, and romantic relationships.
•  Morals and Values: How adolescents regard their place in the world
• Spiritual: Art Appreciation, Moral Commitment, Spiritual Quests.
• Three Basic Aspects of the Self:

  1. Physical or tangible aspects

  2. Intellectual and conscious aspects.

  3. Emotional and intuitive aspects.
• Biological Challenges:

  • Most girls complete physical changes related to puberty by age 15.
  • Boys continue maturing, gaining strength, muscle mass, height, and completing the development of sexual traits.
• Cognitive Challenges:

  
  

  Theory of Social Development (Piaget)

  Adolescence is a time when young people develop cognitively from “concrete operations” to “formal operations”, so the are able to deal with concepts and abstract theories.
• Emotional Challenges:

  • Stress over school and test scores.
  • Self-involvement with high expectations and low self-concept.
  • Seeks privacy and time alone.
  • Concerned about physical and sexual attractiveness.
• Social Challenges:

  • Shifts in relationship with parents from dependency to maturity and responsibilities.
  • Increasing awareness of social behaviors of friends.
  • Friends become more important.
  • Developing more intellectual interests.
  • Explores romantic and sexual behaviors.
  • Influenced by peers to try risky behaviors (alcohol, tobacco, sex).
• Positive Belonging - It’s good to be with other people
• Social Graces - You can learn more about yourself because of people

  around you.
• Peer Pressure - People may influence you, positively or negatively
• Family Connections - Balancing your relationship between your family and peers is important.
• Negative Bonding - Developing a sense of independence. Sometimes you also need to stand on your own.
• Knowledge – “information, understanding, or skill that you get from experience or education“
• Intelligence –"the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria."
• Material poverty

  • Setting priorities: Needs vs. wants.
  • Saving resource
  • Resourcefulness
• Psychological Challenges:

  • Eating Disorders
  • Mental Disorders
• Mental Challenges:

  
  

  - Becomes better able to set goals and think in terms of the future.

  - Has a better understanding of complex problems and issues.

  - Starts to develop moral ideals and select role models.