Adolecence! (Ages 11-18)
-Stages of adolecence-
Adolecence can roughly be divided into three stages: Early adolecence (11-13), Middle adolecence (14-16) and late adolecence (17-18). In addition to physiological growth, 7 key intellectual, physiological and social developmental tasks are also squeezed into these years. The fundemental aim of this task is to form ones own identity and prepare them for adulthood.
Physical development-
Puberty is defined as the biological changes of adolecence. By mid adolecence probably sooner, a teenagers physiological growth should be complete; they should be the weight and hight they would be as an adult, they are also now physically capable of having babies.
Intellectual development-
Most children enter adolecence still perceive the world as black and white, everything is either right or wrong, good or bad. Teens rarely look beyond the present which explains their inability to look at the long term consequences of their actions.
By late adolecence, many teenagers would have come to appreciate subtleties of ideas and situations and will be able to project to the future. Their capaility to sense what others feel and solve complex situations has improved considerably. But as they are still quite inexperianced in life, even older teenagers may use these newfound skills erratically and may act without thinking.
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As the unit information for this work is not available, I will make general comments as to how to the work could be improved. Firstly, please check spelling and grammar carefully as there are several errors that affect the readability of the work. Secondly, the writer talks a lot about things a young person goes through ?in adolescence?, but this should be linked to the specific stages mentioned on page 1. Lastly, consider whether any link to child development theorists such as Piaget can be made. 3/5