Growth and Development

By: Mrs. McCann

Personal and Family Development

Chronological Growth

•Everyone ages, we all have birthdays.

Questions

1.What was your favorite age?

2.Why?

Physical Growth

•We all grow physically until we reach ourmature adult body.

•Girls (9 y.o.) mature faster than boys (11y.o.)

Questions

1.How does the different rate of maturityaffect teens?

2.Can your growth be influenced?

3.How do hormones affect growth?

Emotional Growth

•Maturing is emotional growth.

•During adolescence you will experiencemood swings. This is due to hormones.

•“No man is an island!”

•Think of the Tom Hanks movie“Castaway!” He developed a relationshipwith a volleyball he named Wilson!

•The way people express their feelings.

Questions

1.I like to be with my friends when it

comes to . . ?

2. I like to be different from my friends whenit comes to . . .?

3.I like it when my friends . . . ?

4.Teens worry about . . . ?

5. Growing up is hard because. . . ?

6. Teens are sensitive about . . . ?

Intellectual Growth

•People continue to learn and growintellectually all throughout their life.

•People develop the ability to reason andthink complex thoughts.

•A stimulating environment promotesintellectual growth.

Social Growth

•As you mature you also grow socially.

•People learn to take turns and share withothers.

•Allows people to have good times withother people and to enjoy life.

Robert Havighurst

•A human development researcher

•Theory: Developmental Tasks

•All humans have development tasks thatthey must master. Each task masteredresults in a sense of personal achievementand the desire to learn a new task.

Developmental Tasks for Teens

1.Accept your physique and use your bodyeffectively.

2.Establish emotional independence fromyour parents and other adults.

3.Achieve new and more mature relationswith age mates.

4.Adopt socially approvedmasculine/feminine adult roles.

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•Select and prepare for an occupation

•Develop a personal attitude towardmarriage and family living

•Adopt personal behavior standards.

•Accept and adopt socially responsiblebehavior.

Abraham Maslow

•Another human development researcherwith a different theory.

•Pyramid shaped icon to explain that themost basic needs are the base of humandevelopment. As those needs are met, aperson can progress to the next level ofdevelopment.

•People can move up and down thepyramid.

Maslow’s Pyramid

Love andAcceptance:affection,support,praise

Safety and Security: freefrom danger, risk or harm.

Physical needs: food, clothing, shelter.

Self Actualization/ Esteem

Self Actualization

•The top of the pyramid! All of your needsare met. You are able to independentlyoperate as an adult in society. Also youare able to “give back” to society.