MODULE 3:

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
IN MIDDLE AND LATE
ADOLESCENCE
ACTIVITY: MY PERSONAL TIMELINE

• Using a bond paper, write the

major events in your life and
the significant people in your
life. You may add your age,
specific dates and places.
• Be creative in your
representations. You may use
symbols, drawings, and figures
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
•Human development
focuses on human growth
and changes across the
lifespan including physical,
cognitive, social,
intellectual, personality and
emotional growth
•The study of human
developmental stages is
essential to understanding
how humans learn, mature
and adapt.
•The human being is either in a
state of growth or decline, but
either condition imparts
CHANGE
• DEVELOPMENT varies from every individual..
what I am going to discuss is the ideal
PRE-NATAL
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE CHARACTERISTICS

1. PRE-NATAL Age when hereditary

(Conception to birth) endowments and sex
are fixed and all body
features, both
external and internal
are developed
INFANCY
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE CHARACTERISTICS

2. INFANCY foundation age

when basic behavior
(Birth to 2 years)
are organized and
many ontogenetic
maturation skills are
developed
EARLY CHILDHOOD
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE CHARACTERISTICS

3. Early pre-gang age,

Childhood exploratory and
(2-6 years) questioning. Initial
socialization is
experienced
LATE CHILDHOOD
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE CHARACTERISTICS

4. LATE gang and

creativity age
CHILDHOOD
when self-help
(6-12 years) skills, social skills,
school skills and
play are
developed
ADOLESCENCE
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE CHARACTERISTICS

5. Transition age from

childhood to
ADOLESCENCE
adulthood when sex
(puberty to 18 maturation and rapid
years) physical
development
resulting to changes
in ways of feeling,
thinking and acting
EARLY ADULTHOOD
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE CHARACTERISTICS

6. EARLY age of adjustment

ADULTHOOD to new patterns of
(18 to 40 years) life and roles such
as spouse, parent
and bread winner.
MIDDLE AGE
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE CHARACTERISTICS

7. MIDDLE AGE transition age

(40 years to when
retirement) adjustments to
initial physical
and mental
decline are
experienced
OLD AGE
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE CHARACTERISTICS

8. OLD AGE retirement age

(retirement to when
death) increasingly
rapid physical
and mental
decline are
experienced
 HAVIGHURST’S
DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
DEVELOPMENT
- is the process of
growth or change that
people go through
•DEVELOPMENT
- is continuous
throughout the
entire lifespan
 SOURCES FOR
DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
•PHYSICAL GROWTH
- a baby is born as a
helpless human, a its body
matures, the child can
learn many new skills like
walking and talking
 SOURCES FOR
DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
•SOCIAL PRESSURES
- through rewards and
penalties, society pressures
the child to master the tasks
seen as important. These
tasks differ from culture to
culture.
 SOURCES FOR
DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
•INNER PRESSURES
- the actual desires to
achieve comes from within
the child. It is the child that is
responsible for mastering
each task
 DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
SUMMARY TABLE
INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD (0-5)

•Learning to walk
•Learning to take solid foods
•Learning to talk
•Learning to control the elimination of body
wastes
•Learning sexual differences
•Readiness for reading
•Learning to distinguish right from wrong
 DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
SUMMARY TABLE
MIDDLE CHILDHOOD (6-12)

•Learning physical skills for ordinary games

•Learning to get along with age-mates
•Learning an appropriate sex roles
•Developing conscience, morality, and values
•Achieving personal independence
•Developing acceptable attitudes toward
society
 DEVELOPMENTAL TASK SUMMARY
TABLE
ADOLESCENCE (13-18)
• achieving mature relations with both sexes
• Achieving a masculine or feminine social role
• Accepting one’s physique (structure, size and
shape of a person’s body)
• Achieving emotional independence
• Preparing for marriage and family life
• Acquiring values to guide behavior
• Preparing for an economic career
• Desiring and achieving social responsibility
behavior
 DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
SUMMARY TABLE
EARLY ADULTHOOD (19-30)

•Selecting a mate
•Learning to live with a partner
•Starting a family
•Rearing children
•Managing a home
•Starting an occupation
 DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
SUMMARY TABLE
MIDDLE ADULTHOOD (30-60)
•Helping teenage children to become happy
and responsible adults
•Developing adult leisure time activities
•Relating to one’s spouse as a person
•Adjusting to aging parent
•Accepting physiological changes of middle
age
 DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
SUMMARY TABLE
LATER MATURITY (61-)
•Adjusting to decreasing health and strength
•Adjusting to retirement and reduced income
•Adjusting to death of spouse
•Establishing relations with one’s own age
group
•Meeting social and civic obligations
THE CHALLENGES
OF MIDDLE AND
LATE
ADOLESCENCE
 BIG QUESTION:

“How can you, as an

adolescent, balance
the expectations of
significant people in
your life and your
personal aspirations?”
 ROLE PLAY ON CHALLENGES OF
MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE

• Plan a role play on a specific situation in

which a developmental challenge of
middle adolescence is seen in your
everyday living.
• Practice your role play with your group
mates.
• Perform your role play in class.
• Make a report on your group’s brainstorming
and performance. Include this report and
script.
 CHALLENGES
OF
ADOLESCENCE
 PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

• Most girls have completed the

physical changes related to
puberty by age 15.
• Boys are still maturing and gaining
strength, muscle mass, and
height and are completing the
development of sexual traits.
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• May stress over school and test scores.
• Is self-involved (may have high expectations
and low self-concept).
• Seeks privacy and time alone.
• Is concerned about physical and sexual
attractiveness.
• May complain that parents prevent him or
her from doing things independently.
• Starts to want both physical and emotional
intimacy in relationships.
 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
• Is more and more aware of social behaviors
of friends.
• Seeks friends that share the same beliefs,
values, and interests.
• Friends become more important.
• Starts to have more intellectual interests.
• Explores romantic and sexual behaviors with
others.
• May be influenced by peers to try risky
behaviors (alcohol, tobacco, sex).
 MENTAL DEVELOPMENT

• 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 to select role models.
 1 TIMOTHY 4:12:

“Don’t let anyone look down

on you because you are
young, but set an example
for the believers in speech, in
conduct, in love, in faith and
in purity.”