1. Physical and Sexual Development
Chapter 4: Adolescence
Physical and Sexual Development

2. Physical Development What’s it like to be a teenager (in America)?
What are some initiation rites?

3. Physical Development Puberty- sexual maturation; end of childhood.
Reactions to puberty:
Self-conscious
Want to conform (be like your friends)
Judge yourself

4. Sexual Development Sexual attitudes- differ based on culture.
Teens are having sex at much younger ages.
1 million teen pregnancies a year.
3 million teen STD cases a year.
Children of teen moms tend to become teen parents themselves.
Teenagers are more careful today than 15 years ago- unless drugs/alcohol are involved!

5. Theories of Adolescence
Is teenage-dom a period of “storm and stress”?
G. Stanley Hall: Adolescents are like “grown animals in a cage”.
Or is the stress of being a teenager a cultural thing?
Margaret Mead: In some cultures, being a teen is more enjoyable.

6. Robert Havinghurst: 9 Tasks to Master Before Adulthood.
Accept your physical makeup and acquire a masculine or feminine gender role.
Develop appropriate relations with age-mates of both sexes.
Become emotionally independent of parents.
Be assured that you will one day be financially independent.
Decide on and prepare for a vocation (career)

7. Havinghurst’s Tasks 6. Develop cognitive skills for social competence.
7. Understand/achieve socially responsible behavior.
8. Prepare for marriage and family.
9. Acquire appropriate and harmonious values.

8. Your assignment:
Explain/express in a drawing, collage, comic strip, essay, or poem why one or more of these 9 tasks may be difficult to achieve for teenagers. What obstacles do teenagers face? Why?
*Use page 95
You must choose at least one.