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• Puberty drives the adolescent to experience surges of sexual desires, which often lead them to curiosity and exploration.
• While it is healthy and normal to experience sexual desires, there is the danger of losing control over one’s sexual drives, which may end up in a lifetime of regrets.
• The attitude of being responsible for one’s actions is the guiding principle toward healthy sexuality.
• Being responsible also implies that entering into relationships is all about genuine loving and caring for the other person, and not just to satisfy one’s urges and needs, which can lead to bigger problems like teenage pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases.
• A student role is the primary role and responsibility of an adolescent to portray inside the school.
• Although there are other roles that he or she may take, being a student takes primary importance.
• While many adolescents become problematic with their academic studies, what is most important is their “healthy” attitude that they need to manifest when they are studying.
• Being responsible is called for when dealing with academic challenges.
• there are some important skills and values that an adolescent student needs to learn inside the school, it is important to be aware that academic grades are not the only indicators of learning.
• An adolescent wants to what?

  Belong
• independent and autonomous


  While there is an urge to be _____ and ______ from his or her family and parents, there is also an urge to seek a replacement of this support system; this time, in the form of social groupings, such as school friends, and organizational and community memberships
• Every time you put something inside your body, what question should you ask first?

  “Will this make me healthy or not?”
• Adolescents who are creating their self-identity should be objective and balanced when viewing themselves.
• being objective


  means seeing one’s self as having both strengths and weaknesses or having positive and negative characteristics.
• Balancing how one sees oneself means to avoid over-emphasizing an aspect of one’s identity to the detriment of another aspect.
• being too negative by only recognizing one’s faults and dwelling on them is neither healthy nor balanced.
• Roles are part of one’s identity, such as being a son or daughter to your parents, being a brother or sister to your siblings, being a student in your school, or being a member of your organization.
• Although these roles seem separate and different from each other, but adolescents must learn to integrate all these roles and it should be clear that these roles are related to the tasks expected of them by others.
• What arises when there is a disparity between one’s

  self-identity and the roles that one play?

  Confusion
• There are many stories about school children and adolescent students who live in far-flung areas where infrastructure is not available and who do not have much choice but to walk when going to school. Some walk for hours, some cross rivers and streams, and others go up the hills and mountains before they can reach their school.

  Material Poverty
• Another social phenomenon experienced by many Filipino families today linked to poverty are parents who leave their families to work abroad to support the needs of their families.

  Parents working abroad
• are necessary for growing persons

  support systems
• The adolescent who is creating an identity for himself or herself is faced with an urgent need to identify what course to take in college and establish a career path for the future.


  Career choices
• Maintaining healthy relationships require a certain level of maturity. An adolescent who is still in the process of acquiring maturity may often find maintaining relationships challenging.


  Relationship
• At home, a female adolescent who desires autonomy and independence will encounter more parental objections.
• The challenge of knowing what is important and of great value to an adolescent is linked to one’s self-concept and identity.
• An adolescent who puts great value in life will preserve life in all instances.
• mindset


  To Dr. Dweck, a _____ is the body of beliefs we have about ourselves, such as our intelligence and our capacity to grow and learn new things, make new friends, or even lose or add weight.
• the two mindsets according to Dr. Dweck are?


  Growth Mindset and Fixed Mindset
• mindset


  the body of beliefs we have about ourselves, such as our intelligence and our capacity to grow and learn new things, make new friends, or even lose or add weight.
• Fixed Mindset


  a belief that what we are, such as our traits and characteristics, talents, abilities, and intelligence, cannot be changed.
• A person with a _______ will look at failure as a setback, a negative stroke of luck that cannot be overcome that will doom one’s future.

  Fixed Mindset
• Growth Mindset


  is the thinking or belief that one can break the limitations that we often impose on ourselves.
• Fixed Mindset


  It is the thinking that our intelligence, for example, is a resource which is not, as in, carved in stone, for life.
• Through training and learning, and the belief and will to grow, is what makes a growth mindset the key to achieving success.
• Dweck found out that persons with growth mindsets believe that their talents can still be developed through patience and hard work and devote their time and energy to learning. They will accept feedback or criticisms with open arms and minds, because they know they still need to learn.
• More often, people with growth mindsets will attain more success than those with fixed mindsets who believe that their talents are inborn and that they do not need to improve anymore.
• Stress


  defined as a reaction of the mind and body to a stimulus that disturbs the well-being, state of calm, or equilibrium of a person.
• quadrants of brain

  
• Psychologists have agreed that small and sporadic amounts of stress can be helpful and beneficial to individuals, while excessive amounts of stress sustained over a lengthy period of time can be destructive to both physical and mental health.