Title of Course Unit
Teacher
Faculty & department
Semester
Total Working Hours
Contact Hours per Week
ECTS Credits
Language of Teaching
Compulsory / Elective
Methods of Teaching
Form of Assessment
ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY
Dr., Assoc. Prof. ALA PETRULYTE
Faculty of Educology, Department of Didactics of Psychology
Spring
132 ( 16 - contact hours; 116 - hours of independent study)
1
3
English (and Russian)
Compulsory
Lecture, Practical classes ,Work with scientific literature, Consultations
with teachers, Preparation for written exam
Writen Exam
Study outcomes:
1. Students can discuss works of prominent psychologists in the context of
developmental psychology.
2. Students can identify manifestations and factors of adolescent
psychosocial development while communicating in various communities.
3. Students will get ready to effectively communicate with adolescents and
other subjects of educational community.
Themes:
1. Conception of adolescence (psychoanalytic, psychosocial, cognitive,
cultural-anthropological, humanistic), its periodization and current problems.
2. Cognitive, psychological and social development of adolescent, favorable
and unfavorable factors of development (development of formal operational
thinking , development of adolescent identity, adolescents and their family,
styles of upbringing deployed by parents; adolescents and school; adolescent
groups, experience of friendship and love).
3. Recognition of psychological and social problems connected with adolescent
development and adolescent support in educational context (typical behaviour
reactions of adolescents; harmful habits of adolescents; drop-outs school and
running away from home; aggressive behaviour of adolescents, bullying,
teenager’s depression and suicide; adolescent’s pubescence, sexual problems).
Students‘ workload
Nr. Study outcome
1.
2.
Students can discuss works of
prominent psychologists in the
context of developmental
psychology.
Students
can
identify
manifestations and factors of
adolescent
psychosocial
development
while
communicating in various
communities.
Study activity
Student‘s workload
in hrs
Contact workload:
1. Lectures
2. Seminar
Independent workload:
1. Collection and selection of course
16
materials
2. Consultations with teachers
3. Preparation for an essay
4
16
Contact workload:
1. Lectures
2. Seminar
Independent workload:
1. Collection and selection of course
materials
2. Reading, studying and reflection course
materials
3. Preparation for an essay.
2
2
4
4
16
24
12
3.
Students will get ready to
effectively communicate with
adolescents and other subjects
of educational community.
Readings
Contact workload:
1. Consultation with teachers
2. Practical classes
Independent workload:
1. Reading, studying and reflection course
materials
2. Preparation for an essay
2
2
24
16
1. McElhaney K. B., Porter M. R., Thompson L. W., Allen J. P. (2008)
Apples and Oranges: Divergent Meanings of Parents’and Adolescents’
Perceptions of Parental Influence // The Journal of Early Adolescence.
University
of
Virginia,
Charlottesville
http://people.virginia.edu/~psykliff/pubs/publications/applesandoranges.jea
2008.pdf
2. Santrock J.W, ( 2001) Adolescence, Softcover, 8th ed. McGraw- Hill
Education
http://highered.mcgrawhill.com/sites/dl/free/0072900156/132901/Santrock_Adolescence10e_prefa
ce.pdf
3. Sternberg L.(2008) Adolescence. Tenth edition. (pp.165-456) New York:
The McGraw-Hill Companies
4. Constantine N., Benard B., Diaz M. (1999) Measuring protective factors
and resilience traits in youth. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
society of prevention research
5. Baumrindt D. (1991) Effective parenting during the early adolescent
transition // In P.A. Cowan & E.M. Hetherington (eds.) Advances in family
research , Vol. 2, Hillsdale N.J.- Erlbaum.
6. www.psypress.com/edp
7. www.developmentalpsychologyarena.com
8. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/onlinesamples.asp
9. www.blackwell publishing.com/journals/camh/submiss.htm
10.
Recommended Journals: European Journal of Developmental Psychology.