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Chapter 5 - Personal Development

This chapter discusses the various challenges faced by Filipino adolescents, including issues related to sexuality, academic pressures, social belonging, health, self-esteem, and material poverty. It highlights the impact of parental migration and the importance of career choices and maintaining relationships during this developmental stage. Additionally, it mentions notable Filipino adolescents who have made significant contributions to society.

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Chapter 5 - Personal Development

This chapter discusses the various challenges faced by Filipino adolescents, including issues related to sexuality, academic pressures, social belonging, health, self-esteem, and material poverty. It highlights the impact of parental migration and the importance of career choices and maintaining relationships during this developmental stage. Additionally, it mentions notable Filipino adolescents who have made significant contributions to society.

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CHAPTER 5

“THE CHALLENGES OF MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE”

In this chapter, we will discuss the challenges that an adolescent faces, particularly, the
challenges a Filipino adolescent face.
This is the list of common challenges normal adolescent’s encounter.
1. Attitude and Behaviour toward sexuality and sexual relationships – puberty drives the
adolescent to experiences surges of sexual desires, which often lead them to
experimentation and exploration.
2. Academic Concerns – the role of students is the primary role of an adolescent who is
still in school. Being responsible is called for dealing with academic challenges. Be
aware that academic grades are not only the indicators of learning.
3. Group Belongingness – An adolescent wants to belong. Form of social groupings
such as school friends, memberships in organization, and community.
4. Health and Nutrition – a healthy mind and body is what every adolescence should
strive for. Avoid unhealthy food and drink plenty of clean water and regulate intake of
rich foods
5. Developing Self-Esteem- Adolescent this stage is very self-conscious and often view
themselves as unattractive. Accepting one’s body type is better than rejecting it.
6. Roles – All human have roles to play in their lives. Roles are part of one’s identity.
Although these roles seem separate and different from each other adolescents must
integrate all these roles, and it should be clear that these roles are related to the tasks
expected of the by others.
[Link] Poverty- there are many stories about school children and adolescence
students who live in far-flung areas where infrastructure is not available and of those
who do not have much choice but to walk when going to school.
8. Parents Working Abroad – “Several Studies showed how migration of parents is
indeed heart-breaking for children, making them long for parental care, get confused
over gender roles, be vulnerable to abuse, and even develop consumerist attitudes.”
9. Career Choice – The adolescent who is creating identity for himself is faced with an
urgent need to identify what course to take in college and establish a career path for the
future.
10. Relationship – Maintaining healthy relationships require a certain level of maturity.
An adolescent who is still in the process of acquiring maturity may often find maintaining
relationship challenging.
11. Values and Beliefs – Ask a typical adolescent what he believes in or what values he
upholds.
12. Other Challenges – Other challenges that adolescents may encounter that we are
not aware.

Three Filipino Adolescents, Three Heroes


 Gregorio del Pilar is also known as “Goyong” by his family and “Boy General” by
his fellow revolutionaries
 Edgar Jopson talk with our former president Ferdinand Marcos
 Efren Peñaflorida Establish the organization called Dynamic Teen Company and
known for his pushcart project.

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