Personal Development K to 12 Program SHS

1. The Challenges
of Middle and
Late Adolescence
Josefino Tulabing Larena ,AB, CPS,CPE,MPA

2. Learning Objectives
• Discuss that facing the challeges during adolescence may
clarify and manage the demands of teen years;
• Express his or her feelings on the expections of the
significant people around him or her (
parents,siblings,friends,teachers,community leaders; and
• Make affirmations that help one become more lovable
and capable as an adolescent.

3. CHALLENGES OF ADOLESCENCE
PERSONALITY

4. • 2016 stressed that intellectual
development among adolescent takes a
rapid pace to a point where they see
meaning as well as opportunities on all
kinds of situations. In search for oneself,
they are faced with a increasing number
of problems conducive to emotional
tension.

6. Sexual relationships
• Emotional difficulties arise because of incorrect or
inadequate information concerning sex. Many adolescent
are made to feel that questions concerning sex are
improper and shameful. Strong parental attachment
usually prevents the adolescent from making serious
commitments to a relationship since it is difficult for them
to entertain the thought of leaving home. When one
decides to have commitments, he or she likely to look for
qualities similar to those of a parent.

8. Peer adjustment
• The peer culture acts as a transition period before
reaching adult status in the community. Developing a
sense of responsibility depends upon the satisfactions of
social skills which enables one to become acquainted
with other young people. Failure to develop these skills
with others can lead to feelings of inadequacy and
indifference

10. Intellectual maturation.
• During this period, attitudes are formed, which are like
remain relatively unchanged throughout life. Ways of
thinking are being developed which will lead to either:
healthy problem solving techniques, expanded intellectual
curiosity, and interest; or to a narrow viewpoint; faculty
habits, and poverty of concepts

11. Vocational choice
• Many adolescent make little or no preparation for an
occupation. They take courses in school which are easy, or
which are required of them; not those that will be of
practical value in later life

12. Emotional maturity
• To achieve emotional maturity, adolescent must learn to
channel his or her impulses into constructive endeavors.
Their actions should be socially acceptable responses to
the demands of society. They should take responsibility
for their own actions without blaming others

13. Puberty
• Puberty is the point in the development of a man at which
the individual becomes physically capable of sexual
reproduction. Sexual maturation follows a predictable
sequence for member of both sexes. It begins with the
production of sex hormones trigger as series of
physiological changes the lead to ovulation and
menstruation in females and the production of sperm cells
in males. These are the primary 6 characteristics.
Menarche or the first menstrual period signifies this new
stage of maturation for girls. The secondary sex
characteristics like the development of the breast and hips
begin before menarche and continue until the individual
reached full maturity.

14. The challenges a Filipino
adolescent faces
• 1.Attitudes and Behavior
toward sexuality and
sexual relationship

15. • 2.Academic concerns

16. • 3. Group Belongingness

17. • Health and nutrition

18. • 5. Developing or
Regaining self-esteem

19. • 6.Roles

20. • 7. Material Poverty

22. • 8. Parents Working
Abroad

23. • 9.Career Choice

24. • 10.Relationship

25. • 11.Value and Beliefs

26. • Other challenges
• Depression

27. FILIPINO
ADOLESCENTS,MODERN
HEROES

28. Gregorio del Pilar
• Gregorio Hilario del Pilar y Sempio
(November 14, 1875 – December 2,
1899) was one of the youngest
generals in the Philippine
Revolutionary Forces during the
Philippine Revolution and the
Philippine–American War. He is
most known for his successful
assault on the Spanish barracks of
Cazadores in the municipality of
Paombong, his victory on the first
phase Battle of Quingua and his last
stand at the Battle of Tirad Pass.
during the Philippine-American war.
Because of his youth, he became
known as the "Boy General"

29. Edgar Jopson
• Edgardo Gil Jopson, or more popularly known
as Edjop Jopson (September 1, 1948 -
September 20, 1982), was a labor rights
activist and active member of the Communist
Party of the Philippines (CPP) during the
reign of former President Ferdinand E.
Marcos. Jopson studied in Ateneo de Manila
High School, and later proceeded to Ateneo
de Manila University where he graduated
under the Management Engineering program,
garnering Latin Honors. He was active in
politics since his years in college, even
becoming the president of the National Union
of Students of the Philippines (NUSP). He
later went underground with the CPP when
President Marcos declared Martial Law in
1972. He was killed during a military raid on
his house in 1982

30. Efren Penflorida
• Currently known for the
“pushcart classroom”
program, Efren and his
friends started the Dynamic
Teen Company youth group
in 1997 to promote education
in the slum areas of Cavite.
Graduating from college with
honors, Efren pursued with
his advocacy, (taking Kesz
Valdez under his wings in the
process) which eventually
earned him the prestigious
CNN Hero of the Year award
in 2009.

31. Kesz Valdez : Filipino Scavenger now
World Inspiration for Children
• At age seven, Kesz was able
to start his Caring Children
organization that provides the
basic needs of 10,000 street
children, having been from a
poor and depressed
background himself. Now at
13-years-old, the Cavite-born
is one of three nominated for
the 2012 International
Children’s Peace Prize, to be
awarded by Nobel Peace Prize
winner Desmond Tutu on
September 19th.

32. Self Identity

33. Defining Responsibilities
• the state or fact of having a
duty to deal with something
or of having control over
someone.

34. Defining Expectations
• a strong belief that
something will happen
or be the case in the
future.

35. • For I know theplans that
• I have for you, plans to prosper and not to harm you,
plans to give you hope and a future
• "
•Jeremiah 29:11

36. Thank you so much