Personal Development

• Seeks friends that share the same

Quarter 1 – Module 4: beliefs, values, and interests.
Becoming a Responsible Adolescent
• Friends become more important.
Lesson 1: Responsible Adolescent
Prepared for Adult Life • Starts to have more intellectual
interests.
CHALLENGES OF LATE ADOLESCENCE
• Explores romantic and sexual behaviors
Physical Development with others.
• Most girls have completed the physical
changes related to puberty by age 15. • May be influenced by peers to try risky
behaviors (alcohol, tobacco, sex).
• Boys are still maturing and gaining
strength, muscle mass, and height and Mental Development
are completing the development of • Becomes better able to set goals and
sexual traits. think in terms of the future.

Emotional Development • Has a better understanding of complex

• May stress over school and test scores. problems and issues.

• Is self-involved (may have high • Starts to develop moral ideals and to

expectations and low self-concept). select role models.
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• Seeks privacy and time alone.
Ways to Become a Responsible Adolescent
• Is concerned about physical and sexual Prepared for Adult Life
attractiveness.
Becoming responsible and being able
• May complain that parents prevent him to make good choices are very important traits
or her from doing things independently. no matter what developmental stage you are in.
It holds true for adolescents especially that they
• Starts to want both physical and are just beginning to internalize and imbibe
emotional intimacy in relationships. virtues, values, and other essential qualities.

• The experience of intimate partnerships Becoming responsible and being able to

make good choices are very important traits no
Social Development matter what developmental stage you are in. It
• Shifts in relationship with parents from holds true for adolescents especially that they
dependency and subordination to one are just beginning to internalize and imbibe
that reflects the adolescent’s increasing virtues, values, and other essential qualities.
maturity and responsibilities in the
family and the community, The following are eight (8) simple rules
which could help you, teenagers, to become a
• Is more and more aware of social responsible adolescent prepared for adult life:
behaviors of friends.
1. Focus on your studies and do well in all Lesson 2: Understanding Stress in
of your endeavors. There is time for Adolescence
everything.
Stress: Nature, Types, and Symptoms
2. Take care of your health and hygiene.
Healthy body and mind are important
Stress is the body’s responds to
as you journey through adolescence.
anything that makes us feel threatened or
pressured. It is caused by any kind of demand,
3. Establish good communication and
to which we must adapt, adjust, or respond. It is
relation with your parents or guardian.
the body’s automatic way of reacting to
Listen to them. This may be easier said
changes, challenges, and demands placed on us.
than done at this stage, but creating
good relationship with them will do you
good as they are the ones you can lean Nature of Stress
on especially in times of trouble. Stress is not a factor that resides in
the individual or the environment, instead it
4. “Think many times before you do is embedded in an ongoing process that
anything.” Evaluate the probable involves individuals transacting with their
consequences/results before you act on social and cultural environments.
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and self-discipline. The General Model of Stress Process
5. “Think many times before you do Stressors
anything.” Evaluate the probable Types:
consequences/results before you act on
• Environmental
a certain situation. Practice self-control
• Psychological
and self-discipline.
• Social
6. Do your best to resist temptations, bad
Dimensions:
acts, and earthly pleasures and commit
• Intensity
to being a responsible adolescent.
• Duration
7. Respect yourself. You are an adult in • Complexity
the making. Do not let your teenage • Predictability
hormones get into you. If you respect
yourself, others will respect you too. Personality Characteristics
Physiological:
8. Respect yourself. You are an adult in • Physical Health
the making. Do not let your teenage • Vulnerabilities
hormones get into you. If you respect
yourself, others will respect you too. Psychological:
• Mental Health
• Temperament
• Self-Concept

Cultural:
• Cultural Definitions & Meanings
 Resources Social events like death or illness in the
Physical: family, strained relationships, trouble
• Money with neighbors are some examples of
social stresses. These social stresses
Personal: vary widely from person to person.
• Skills Attending parties may be stressful for a
person who likes to spend quiet
Social: evenings at home while an outgoing
• Support Network person may find staying at home in the
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Stress Appraisal ---------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------- Symptoms of Stress
• Physiological Response
• Behavioral Response The way one responds to stress varies
• Emotional Response depending upon his/her personality, early
• Cognitive Response upbringing and life experiences. Everyone has
---------------------------------------------------------------- their own pattern of stress response. Hence,
Types of Stress both the symptoms of stress can be physical,
emotional and behavioral.
Physical and Environmental
- Demands that change the state of our Emotional symptoms
body. We feel strained when we - becoming easily agitated, frustrated,
overexert ourselves physically, lack a and moody
nutritious diet, suffer an injury, or fail to
get enough sleep. Environmental - Feeling overwhelmed, like you are
stresses are aspects of our surroundings losing control or need to take control
that are often unavoidable such as air
pollution, crowding, noise, heat of the - Having difficulty relaxing and quieting
summer, winter cold, etc. Another your mind
group of environmental stresses are
catastrophic events or disasters such as - Low self-esteem, lonely, worthless, and
fire, earthquake, floods, etc. depressed

Psychological - Avoiding others

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our minds and are unique to the person Physical symptoms
experiencing them. These are internal - Insomnia – lack of sleep
sources of stress. Some of the
important sources of psychological - Low energy
stress are frustrations, conflicts,
internal and social pressures, etc. We
- Headaches
worry about problems, feel anxiety, or
become depressed.
- Nervousness and shaking, ringing in the
Social ear, cold or sweaty hands and feet
- These are induced externally and result
from our interaction with other people.
 - Upset stomach, including diarrhea,
constipation, and nausea

- Aches, pains, and tense muscles

- Chest pain and rapid heartbeat

- Frequent colds and infections

- Loss of sexual desire and/or ability

- Dry mouth and difficulty swallowing

- Clenched jaw and grinding teeth

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Cognitive symptoms
- Forgetfulness and disorganization

- Poor judgment

- Constant worrying
 - Racing thoughts

- Inability to focus

- Being pessimistic or seeing only the

negative side
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Behavioral symptoms
- Changes in appetite – either not eating
or eating too much

- Increased use of alcohol, drugs, or

cigarettes

- Procrastinating and avoiding

responsibilities

- Exhibiting more nervous behaviors,

such as nail biting, fidgeting, and
pacing.