Warm up – January 4, 2010

1. Warm up – January 4, 2010 • Do you form stronger friendships with same or opposite sex friends? Why do you think this is so? What does this reveal about you?

2. Types of Friendship • Girl-Girl friendships (Girls do this one only!!) -Based on… -Talk about… -Advantages… -Disadvantages… • Boy-Boy friendships (Boys do this one only!!) -Based on… -Talk about… -Advantages… -Disadvantages…

3. Types of Friendships • Boy-Girl friendships -Based on… -Talk about… -Advantages -Disadvantages

4. Adolescence Social Development

5. Social Development • Social development Topics • Relationships with Peers • Adolescent Friendships • Diff. Between girl-girl friendship, guy-guy friendship, girl guy friendship • Cliques and Crowds • Peer Influences • Dating and Romantic Relationships • Challenges of Adolescents

6. Erikson - Learning Identity Versus Identity Diffusion • Learns how to answer satisfactorily and happily the question of "Who am I?"  Even the best - adjusted adolescents experience some role identity diffusion: most boys and probably most girls experiment with minor delinquency; rebellion flourishes; self - doubts flood the youngster, and so on. • During successful early adolescence, mature time perspective is developed. • Young person acquires self-certainty as opposed to self-consciousness and self-doubt.  • In later adolescence, clear sexual identity - manhood or womanhood - is established.  The adolescent seeks leadership (someone to inspire him), and gradually develops a set of ideals (socially congruent and desirable, in the case of the successful adolescent). 

7. Relationships with Peers • Transition from childhood to adolescents involves an increase in the importance of peers • More important in influence and emotional support

8. Relationships with Peers • Most tend to have 1 or 2 “best” friends with many other “good” friends • Spend hours with friends • Phone conversations • Texting • My Space / Facebook

9. Purposes of Friendship • Write down as many purposes of friendship as you can on your paper • Share with class why is it necessary for us to have friends?

10. Qualities of a Good Friend • Write down as many qualities of a good friend as you can on your paper -Girls share -Boys share • Are these different? Why?

11. Assignment (30 minutes) • You are looking for a new best friend. Create an ad that describes exactly what you are looking for in a friend. • What character traits are key? • What beliefs should they have? • Should they be religious? And so on.

12. So how do adolescents choose their friends? • Usually similar in age, background, and educational goals. -Agree? Why or why not? • Usually similar attitudes toward drinking, drug use, and sexual activity. -Agree? Why or why not?

13. Peer Influences • Parents worry that adolescents need for approval from friends will make them engage in risky or unacceptable behavior -Agree or disagree? • Research suggests that peer influences are more likely to urge them to work for good grades and complete high school. -What do you think?

14. Stages of Influence • Early -Peer pressure weak • Middle • Increasing peer pressure peaks at approx. age 15 • Begins to decrease at age 17

15. Why are we influenced by our peers? • Feel better when we receive approval from peers • Peers provide standards to measure self against • Peers may share the same feelings and they may provide support

16. What do Cliques and Crowds have to do with it? • Cliques and crowds are types of groups that influence adolescents • Cliques -Groups of 5-10 people who spend a great deal of time together • Crowds -Larger groups of people that don’t spend as much time together but share attitudes and group identity ex: cows and bulls

17. Cliques & Crowds

18. Cliques and Crowds • What is a clique? • What is a crowd? • Positives of each • Negatives of each

19. A clique is • An exclusive group of people who share interests, views, purposes, patterns of behavior, or ethnicity. • A clique as a reference group can be either normative or comparative. • A normative clique or reference group is oftentimes the primary source of social interaction for the members of the clique, which can affect the values and beliefs of an individual. • The comparative clique or reference group is a standard of comparison in which a clique can exist in the workplace, in a community, in the classroom, in a business, or any other area of social interaction.

20. Why do adolescents feel the need to belong to these? • In search of stability and a sense of belonging

21. Peer Relationships Dating and Romantic Relationships

22. What do we look for in a date? • Girls—what do you look for in a partner? • Guys—what do you look for in a partner?

23. Stages of Dating 1. Adolescents place themselves in situations where they meet peers that they are attracted to. 2. Group Dating 3. Pair off in traditional 2-person dating

24. So, why do we date? • Discuss

25. Dear Abby (Warm up 1/8) • Write any dating question that you have on a piece of paper. • Leave loads of room for a response.

26. Adolescent Dating Column • You are the advice giver of a popular newspaper for the adolescent section. Your job is to read questions from readers and respond in a newspaper style response (similar to Dear Abbey)

27. Adolescence Challenges

28. Warm up • What is the most difficult issue you have dealt with as an adolescent? • Please be candid. I will not force you to share out loud but I will be collecting your papers today. • I will be asking for volunteers to share. I will go first.

29. Challenges of Adolescence • Eating Disorders • Anorexia • Bulimia • Substance Abuse • Drugs • Alcohol • Juvenile Delinquency • Sexuality & STDs • Cutting • Teen pregnancy

30. Assignment • Research your topic • Gather the most important information that teens need to have about the issue at hand • Put the info into a blank power point • E-mail it to melanie.lindsey@venturausd.org or save it to your thumb drive • You will present this info to the class on the dates set aside.