MODULE 5

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• Regional Director: Gilbert T. Sadsad
• Assistant Regional Director: Jessie L. Amin
• Development Team of the Module
• Writers: Marc Nelson Marzo
• Editors: Frankie T. Turalde, Randy P. Bacares, Gloria E. Fontelar
• Reviewers: Sheila C. Bulawan
• Layout Artist: Jogene Alilly C. San Juan, Antonio L. Morada
• Task


  A usually assigned piece of work often to be finished within a certain time
• Social Responsibility


  An ethical framework and suggests that an individual, has an obligation to act for the benefit of society at large
• Lifespan


  The average length of life of a kind organism or of a material object especially in a particular environment or under specified circumstances
• Adolescence is the phase of achieving mature relations with both sexes.
• Early adulthood is learning to live with a partner.
• In the middle childhood, one of the developmental tasks is adjusting to aging parenthood.
• The Passage to adulthood is to accept the challenges of the stage of adolescence.
• Late maturity is acquiring values and an ethical system to guide behavior.
• Developmental tasks of adolescence

  • Achieving mature relations with both sexes
  • Achieving a masculine or feminine social role
  • Accepting one's physique
  • Achieving emotional independence of adults
  • Preparing for marriage and family life
  • Preparing for an economic career
  • Acquiring values and an ethical system to guide behavior
  • Desiring and achieving socially responsibility behavior
• Being in Grade 11/12, what are the tasks expected of you? Rate yourself from 1-10 (10 as the highest).
• As you are in Grade 11, you are in the stage of transition, right? From high school to college, from being an adolescent to young adult. How do you feel about this transition? What is your turning point?
• Do you think you are ready in this transition which may mean more responsibilities and greater accountability? If no, what are the expected tasks you need to work on? If yes, what are the ways so you can better plan for the future.
• From activity 1, what are the tasks where you experience hardships or you feel challenging. Explain why.
• Why do you think that you experience difficulties in facing the developmental tasks?
• As Grade 11, you have encountered those challenges, right? How was it? How do you feel about these challenges?
• Do you think that you can surpass those tasks even though there are difficulties? If yes, what can you do to surpass it. And if no, what are the ways so that you will obtain success.
• Developmental tasks of early adulthood

  • Selecting a mate
  • Learning to live with a partner
  • Starting a family
  • Rearing a child
  • Managing a home
  • Starting an occupation
  • Assuming civic responsibility
• Developmental tasks of middle adulthood

  • Helping teenage children to become happy and responsible adults
  • Achieving adult social and civic responsibility
  • Satisfactory career and achievement
  • Developing adult leisure time activities
• Developmental tasks of later maturity


  • Relating to one's spouse as a person
  • Accepting the physiological changes of middle age
  • Adjusting to aging parent
• Developmental tasks of later maturity

  • Adjusting to decreasing strength and health
  • Adjusting to retirement and reduced income
  • Adjusting to death of spouse
  • Establishing relations with one's own age group
  • Meeting social and civic obligations
  • Establishing satisfactory living quarters
• The developmental tasks theory of Robert J. Havighurst elaborated in the most systematic and extensive manner. His main assertion is that development is continuous throughout the entire lifespan, occurring in stages, where the individual moves from one stage to next by means of successful resolution of problems or performance of developmental tasks.
• According to Havighurst, at the stage of adolescence, you must achieve and prepare the adulthood stage. He emphasizes that an adolescent must already achieve mature relations with both sexes, masculine or feminine social role, accepting one's physique, achieving emotional independence of adults, preparing for marriage and family life and for an economic career, acquiring values and an ethical system to guide behavior, desiring and achieving social responsibility behavior. All of these are the transitions of an adolescent.
• Risk factors of an adolescent

  • Drugs
  • Alcohol
  • Unsafe sex
  • Teenage pregnancy and parenting
  • School underachievement
  • Failure and dropout
  • Delinquency
  • Crime
  • Violence
• Jeffrey C. Miller, Ph.D. has a point of view about the developmental challenges of adolescent/ teenagers. He gave a brief summary of the most significant developmental issues that an adolescent face:
• Developmental challenges of adolescence

  • Physical Transformation
  • Sexual development
  • Separation from parents
  • Identity v. role confusion
  • Social issues/group identity v. individuality
  • Growing responsibility
• Now you have learned more about the developmental task and the challenges of an adolescent. It is not that easy, is it? Being an adult is so challenging. Before you can say that you have done already the developmental tasks, you must face first the challenges of being adolescent.
• Write your own experiences about the challenges you've met, how you overcome it and how you were able to achieve the developmental task.
• The adolescence stage is a phase of change and transitions.
• The developmental task will help the teenager to face the challenges of life.
• One of the challenges of an adolescent is to achieve mature relations both sexes.
• Acquiring values and an ethical system to guide behavior is part of Developmental task