MODULE 1

Self-concept-refers to your awareness of yourself.

2 broad categories:

1. Ideal self
- Is the self that you aspire to be. It is the one that you hope will possess characteristics
similar to that of a mentor or some other worldly figure.

2. Actual Self
- is the one that you actually see. It is the self that has characteristics that you were
nurtured or, in some cases, born to have. Is built on self-knowledge.

Self-Knowledge
- is derived from social interactions that provide insight into how others react. Personal
effectiveness means making use of all the personal resources to enable you to achieve
life goals.

Some Skills that will greatly increase the efficiency of any person who owns them:

1. Determination.

- It allows you to focus only on achieving a specific goal without being distracted by less
important things or spontaneous desires.

2. Self-confidence.
- It appears in the process of personal development, as a result of getting aware of
yourself, your actions and their consequences.

3. Persistence.
- It makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles - problems,
laziness, bad emotional state, etc. It reduces the costs of overcoming obstacles.
4. Managing stress.

- It helps combat stress that arises in daily life from the environment and other people.

5. Problem-solving skills.

- They help cope with the problems encountered with a lack of experience.

Module 2

Developing the Whole Person

1. Physical Self - Include descriptions of your height, weight, facial appearance, and quality of
skin, hair and descriptions of body areas such as your neck, chest, waist, legs.

2. Intellectual Self -Include here an assessment of how well you reason and solve problems,
your capacity to learn and create, your general amount of knowledge, your specific areas of
knowledge, wisdom you have acquired, and insights you have.

3. Emotional Self - Includes typical feelings you have, feelings you seldom have, feelings you try
to avoid, feelings you especially enjoy, feelings from the past and present and feelings which are
associated with each other.

4. Sensual Self - Indulging your senses in things around you and not rushing into anything. This
is how you actually enjoy or celebrate or love yourself through your different activities.

5. Interactional Self - Include descriptions of your strengths and weaknesses in intimate

relationships and relationships to friends, family, co-students and strangers in social settings.

6. Nutritional Self It refers to the capacity of individuals and communities to make their own
good decisions relating to their nutrition.
7. Contextual Self - Descriptors could be in the areas of maintenance of your living environment:
reaction to light, temperature, space, weather, colors, sound and seasons and your impact on
the environment.

8. Spiritual Self or Life Force - This could include your feelings about yourself and organized
religion, reactions about your spiritual connections to others, feelings about your spiritual
development and history, and thought about your metaphysical self. Think about your inner
spintual regimen or routine. peace and joy. Think about your spiritual regimen or routine.

3 basic aspects of self

1. Physical or Tangible aspects (body)

2. Intellectual and Conscious aspects (mind)

3. Emotional and Intuitive aspects (spirit)

Module 3

Developmental Stages in Middle and Late Adolescence

Human Developmental Stages

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE

CHARACTERISTICS

1. Pre-catal (Conception to birth)

- Age when hereditary endowments and sex A are fixed and all body features, both
external and internal are developed.

2. . Infancy (Barth to 2 years)

- Foundation age when basic behavior are organized and many ontogenetic maturation
skills are developed.
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CHARACTERISTICS

3. Early Childhood (2 to 6 years)

- Pre-gang age, exploratory, and questioning. Language and elementary reasoning are
acquired and initial socializations is experienced.

4. Late Childhood (6 to 12 years)

- Gang and creativity age when self-help skills, social skills, school skills, and play are
developed.

5. Adolescence (puberty to 18 years)

- Transition age from childhood to adulthood when sex maturation and rapid physical
development occur resulting to changes in ways of feeling, thinking and acting.

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE CHARACTERISTICS

6. Eady Adulthood (18 to 40 years)

- Age of adjustment to new patterns of life and roles such as spouse, patent and bread
winner.

7. Middle Age (40 years to retirement)

- Transition age when adjustments to initial physical and mental decline are experienced.

8. Old Age (Retirement to death)

- Retirement age when increasingly rapid physical and mental de line are experienced.

LIVING MINDFULLY

● Breathe Mindfully

● Listen deeply
 ● Cultivate insight

● Practice Compassion

● Limit Reactivity

● Express Gratitude

● Nurture Mutual Respect

● Build Integrity

● Foster Leadership

● Be Peace

MODULE 4

The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence

THE PASSAGE TO ADULTHOOD: CHALLENGES OF LATE 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.

● The experience of intimate partnerships

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.

ENCOURAGEMENT

✓ is the key ingredient for improving your relationships with others.

✓ It is the single most important skill necessary for getting along with others - so important that
the lack of it could be considered the primary cause of conflict and misbehavior.

✓ is the lifeblood of a relationships.

✓ develops a person's psychological hardiness and social interest.

- build them up, not to tear them down

Most commonly, we discourage in five general ways:

1. We set standards that are too high for others to meet because we are overly ambitious.

2. We focus on mistakes as a way to motivate change or improved behavior.

3. We make constant comparisons (self to others, siblings to one another).

4. We automatically give a negative spin to the actions of others.

5. We dominate others by being overly helpful, implying that they are unable to do it as well.