DEVELOPMENTAL
STAGES IN MIDDLE
AND LATE
ADOLESCENCE
Discuss developmental
tasks and challenges being
experienced during
adolescence
LEARNING Evaluate one’s development
through the help of
COMPETENCIE significant people around
S him/her
Identify ways that help one
become capable and
responsible adolescent
prepared for adult life.
Adolescence is divided into three sub stages according to
age and developmental tasks.
Early adolescence – ages around 10 – 13 BRIEF
Middle adolescence – ages 14 – 16 INTRODUCTIO
Late adolescence – ages 17 – 20 N
Human development focuses on human growth and changes
across the lifespan, including physical, cognitive, social,
intellectual, perceptual, personality, and emotional growth.
The Developmental Tasks of Adolescence
• Achieving mature relations with both sexes
• Achieving a masculine or feminine social role
HUMAN • Accepting one’s physique
DEVELOPMENT • Achieving emotional independence of adults
• Preparing for marriage and life
• Preparing for an economic career
• Acquiring values and an ethical system to guide behavior
• Desiring and achieving socially responsible behavior.
According to Havighurst, if the person successfully
accomplishes and masters the developmental task, he feels
pride and satisfaction, and consequently earns his
community and society’s approval.
HUMAN
If the individual is not successful at accomplishing a task, he DEVELOPMENT
or she is unhappy and is not accorded the desired approval
by society, resulting in the subsequent experience of
difficulty when faced with succeeding developmental task.
Havighurst proposed a bio psychosocial model of
development, wherein the developmental tasks at each
stage are influenced by individual’s:
• Biology (physiological maturation and genetic make-up)
HUMAN • Psychology (personal values and goals)
DEVELOPMENT • Sociology (specific culture to which the individual
belongs)
ACTIVITY #2
Using the
Developmental Task
Summary Table,
assess your own level
of development as a
Senior High School
student. Write your
answer in your
Personal Development
Journal following the
format below.
1. Rate yourself from 1-10 (10) as the highest on whether
you have accomplished those expected tasks.
2. How do you feel about the transition from being an
adolescent to young adult?
PROCESSING
3. Do you think you are ready for this transition? If no,
what are the expected tasks you need to work on? If
yes, what are the ways to take so you can better plan
for the future?
Answer the following on your yellow pad.
1. What are the developmental tasks according to
developmental stage of adolescence?
PERFORMANCE
TASK #4
2. What do you think is your development in
comparison with persons of the same age group?
3. How can you be capable and responsible
adolescent prepared for adult life?
1. Has someone ever asked you a question that you really
didn’t want to answer? How did you respond?
2. Did you ever do something to be helpful that turned out
badly? What happened? What do you wish had happened?
JOURNAL #3
3. Have you ever gotten in trouble because someone caught
you cheating or thought you were cheating? What
happened? What do you wish had happened?
4. In what other situations have you seen someone think or
not before speaking? What happened?
THANK YOU
