PERDEV FINALS

• Belongingness


  A sense of feeling safe, accepted, respected, understood, and loved in a social environment
• Identity


  How you view yourself, based on your abilities, strengths, weaknesses, beliefs, past experiences, etc. It changes through time as you gain more experience through adulthood.
• Important Relationships in Adolescence


  • Family
  • Peers
• Family

  Parents are expected to look after you and provide for you. They decide your environment, church, and school. Though you become more independent from your parents during adolescence, it does not mean that you are replacing your parents with your friends. Parents can act as mentors or coaches to you when it comes to relating to others.
• Peers


  A set of individuals who are of the same age or maturity. Peers are those you spend time playing or hanging out with. Having peers can be positive or negative. Some psychologists argue that having peers helps you become more sensitive to the needs of others and see things from a different perspective.
• Intimacy


  Self-disclosure or sharing your inner thoughts to another person. A person is considered a friend when they talk about personal thoughts, feelings, and problems.
• Similarity


  Possessing the same interests of another person. The similarity in friendship is having the same interests, abilities, background, organization, etc. At times, you determine who your friends are based on your similarities in interests with another person.
• Dating


  A form of interaction with the intention of getting to know another person better.
• Attraction


  A less serious desire for someone else.
• Romantic love or passionate love


  Common among adolescents. It is associated with a strong desire to be with someone you are interested in.
• Commitment


  A promise, pledge, or decision to stick by each other through the ups and downs of the relationship.
• The Five Love Languages

  • Words of Affirmation
  • Gifts
  • Acts of Service
  • Quality Time
  • Physical Touch
• Nonverbal communication


  The way your bodies talk. Your eyes, hands, lips, arms, legs can create movements that can send messages to others. The tone of your voice, the space you occupy, and the time you give also give others an idea of what you want to convey.
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

  • Be Proactive
  • Begin with the End in Mind
  • Put First Things First
  • Think Win-win
  • Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
  • Synergize
  • Sharpen the Saw
• Self-care is essential in building relationships
• Courtship readiness cues are observed at the start of dating process
• Preening behaviors are actions done to yourself to look more attractive and impressive
• Positional cues communicate how the sender of the message wants conversations to run through your body positions
• Action of appeal or invitation are gestures that seem to welcome another person in an interaction
• Expressions of Attraction through Social Media

  • Adding as a contact
  • Liking and Commenting
  • Humor
  • Private messages
  • Sending selfies and videos of one's self
  • Making a music playlist
• Clarity and Commitment

  • to avoid confusion and to raise false hopes
• The best way you can do when faced with romantic feelings towards a friend is to do the ff

  • Assess your Emotions
  • Make a Decision
  • Clarify Intentions
• 4 aspects of boundaries are material, physical, mental, and emotional
• Dr. Gary Chapman a counselor, and expert in relationships, introduced the idea that human beings have different expressions of love
• Family


  The basic unit of society
• Basic functions of family

  • Procreation
  • Socialization and education
  • Identity
  • Economic support
  • Emotional support
• Traditional family structure

  • Nuclear family
  • Extended family
• Emerging family structure

  • Single parent
  • Blended families
  • Homosexual/Lesbian families
  • Cohabitation
• Nuclear family


  Composed of a father, a mother and the child/children

  sometimes ref to as immediate/elem family
• Extended family


  Includes the grandparents and/or relatives of the nuclear family
• Single parent family


  Can occur through death, separation/divorce or adoption without marriage
• Blended families


  Also referred to as stepfamilies where both parents bring children from a previous marriage
• Homosexual/Lesbian families


  Two homosexuals living together raise child/children from previous relationships or through adoption
• Cohabitation


  Unmarried male and female living together raising child/children of their own or through adoption
• Key characteristics of healthy families

  • Love and appreciation
  • Open and honest communication
  • Unity and respect for differences
  • Values and standards
  • Stress coping strategies
• The quality of relationships among family members is far more important than its mere presence in a person's life
• Importance of strong family ties

  • Physical support
  • Emotional support
  • Development of social skills
• Filipino family challenges

  • Abuse
  • Poverty and parent absenteeism
  • Negative influence of media
• Tips to strengthen family ties

  • Communicate effectively
  • Fight fairly
  • Spend time together
  • Share and cooperate
  • Connect to the bigger community
• Career


  A job that suits the skills, the goals, and the personality traits that a person has