Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, the student should be able to complete the following goals:

1

Identify and describe the criteria for adolescence.

2

Describe Hall's theory of adolescent development.

3

Summarize Anna Freud's view of adolescence.

4

Examine Erikson's theory of adolescence, including a discussion of the moratorium of youth and premature foreclosure.

5

Identify and explain Marcia's identity statuses.

6

Examine Hill's biopsychosocial theory of adolescence.

7

Identify the important parts of the male and female reproductive systems, and explain their functions.

8

Define puberty and list the normal sequence of events in puberty for males and females.

9

Describe the influence of timing on an individual adolescent's emotional reactions to the physical changes of puberty.

10

Define secular trend and the factors thought to influence it.

11

Distinguish between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, and discuss eating disorders in athletes.

12

Identify Piaget's stages of cognitive development, and examine variables in cognitive development.

13

Define Elkind's adolescent egocentrism, and describe the components of imaginary audience and personal fable.

14

Distinguish between convergent and divergent thinking, and define creative thinking.

15

Use Felman's understanding of precociousness and prodigiousness as a way of understanding genius, and list Dacey's guidelines for improving creativity.

16

Examine mental health issues of adolescence.

17

Address the myths and warning signs of adolescent suicide.

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