adolsecence

• Identity


  Coherent conception of the self, made up of goals, values, and beliefs to which the person is solidly committed
• Identity formation


  1. Choice of an occupation

  2. Adoption of values to live by

  3. Development of a satisfying sexual identity
• Psychosocial Moratorium


  Time-out period which is the ideal for the development of identity, allowing young people the opportunity to search for commitments to which they could be faithful
• Fidelity


  Sustained loyalty, faith, or a sense of belonging to a loved one, friends or companions
• Fidelity development


  Identification with a set of values, an ideology, a religion, a political movement, or an ethnic group
• Inability to develop fidelity


  Unstable sense of self, insecure, and fail to plan for themselves and the future
• A man is not capable of real intimacy until he has achieved a stable identity, whereas women define themselves through marriage and motherhood
• Crisis


  A period of conscious decision-making, process of grappling with what to believe and who to be
• Commitment


  A personal investment in an occupation or ideology
• Maladaptive Tendency: Fanaticism – believes that his "ways" are the only ways
• Malignant Tendency: Repudiation – repudiate their membership in the world of adults and, even more, they repudiate their need for an identity
• Sexual Identity


  Seeing oneself as a sexual being, recognizing one's sexual orientation, and forming romantic or sexual attachments
• Sexual Orientation


  Whether the person is attracted to person of other sex (Heterosexual), same sex (Bisexual), or of both sexes (Bisexual)
• Brains of gay men and straight women are more symmetrical, whereas lesbians and straight men, the right hemisphere is slightly larger
• Transgender


  Biological sex at birth and gender identity are not the same
• Transsexual


  People who seek medical assistance to permanently transition to their preferred gender
• Two major concerns about adolescent sexual activity are the risks of contracting STIs and pregnancy
• Juvenile Delinquency


  Adolescent who breaks the law or engages in behavior considered as illegal
• Antisocial behaviors tends to run in families
• Individuals who have low arousal levels may be prone to antisocial behaviors as a form of sensation seeking to achieve arousal levels a normal person experiences
• Early onset type of juvenile delinquency

  Beginning by age 11, tends to lead to chronic juvenile delinquency in adolescence
• Late onset type of juvenile delinquency

  Milder, tends to arise temporarily in adolescence
• Parents of children who become chronically antisocial may have failed to reinforce good behaviors in early childhood and may have been harsh or inconsistent with their discipline