Think About It…
Answer these questions:
I really like…..
I’m confused about…..
I’ll know I’m successful when I…..
When I need to make a decision, I
think about…..
I wish some one would help me
decide…..
Personal
Development
Life Skills
Unit 1 Self Discovery
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As Teenagers, Many Changes
Occur
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Physical Changes
Emotional Changes
Intellectual Changes
Moral Changes
Social Changing
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Physical Changes
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As a teen, adulthood is on the
way
Teens develop physically at
different rates
 Who physically develops
faster? Males? Females?
Hormones (chemicals
released in the body) are the
catalyst of physical changes
Awkward time
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Emotional Changes
Hormones also trigger
emotional changes
Must learn to adapt to
mood changes
Emotional ups and
downs will diminish as
adulthood is reached
because hormones
become more
balanced
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Intellectual Changes
• New intellectual skills allow teens to
develop realistic plans
• Reasoning skills improve
• Attitudes (thoughts and judgments
about the world around you) develop
• The wise teen realizes that knowing
more doesn’t mean knowing it all!
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Moral Changes
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Teens know the difference
between right and wrong--acting on it is where they
have trouble!
Develop a set of principles to
believe in as adulthood nears
Teens learn pressures that
surface and must learn to
make their own choices
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Emerging as an Adult
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Development during adolescence is complex
The person who emerges at the end of this stage
of life is very different from the one who entered it
All areas of your development are working
together to produce the adult version of you
Everything you do now to promote your
development will help you become the capable
adult that you need to be!
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Personality Development
People come in all
shapes and sizes and
with different
personalities
Your personality is a
combination of
characteristics that
makes you different
from every other person
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Personality Components
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Personality components fall into three
categories—emotional, social, and intellectual
Emotional---Every person feels the same basic
emotions—the difference is how we deal with them
 Social---People are different in how they relate to
others
 Intellectual---Influenced by the mind and how it
works
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You must get to know a person to see how all of
these components work together
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Self-Concept
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How you define
what you are is
your self-concept
When you know
who you are—you
know how to act
Teens must learn
to deal with
hearing negative
messages
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Self-Esteem
• Your self-esteem is how you feel about
yourself
• Your successes, your thoughts about
strengths and weaknesses, and the way
people react to you affect you self-esteem
• Self-esteem affects your behavior
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Scenario
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Charlie’s father wants him to play football.
Charlie, however, would rather log onto the
Internet than practice a forward pass. Every
time his father catches him at the computer,
Charlie feels uncomfortable and has a sense
of failure.
What could Charlie do you raise his selfesteem?
Who is more responsible for Charlie’s
feelings?
How could communicating help?
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Boosting Self-Esteem
 Learn to accept praise
 Focus on your strengths
 Accept yourself as you
are
 Learn from what you do
 Use your strengths to
help others
 Takes responsibility for
your own life
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Realizing Your Potential
• The deepest personal defeat suffered by human
beings is constituted by the difference between
what one was capable of becoming and what one
has in fact become! (Ashley Montagu)
• You have potential---the capability of becoming
something more than you are right now
• Easy to get side tracked—some think…I’ll start
later, I have plenty of time for that, etc.
• How close you come to reaching your potential is
up to you. Things don’t have to get in the way if
you don’t let them
• When you work toward your potential, you aim for
personal development
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Assignment
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1. Write the five areas of change as headings on a
sheet of paper. Under each heading, list two specific
changes in that category. Describe a benefit and
challenge that might result from each change.
2. Using the construction paper given to you, cover
the folder with things that portray your personality.
Depict your skills, your interests, your emotions, and
your attitudes. Include what and how you think and
how you get along with others. You may use any
media you wish---photographs, drawings, text, or a
combination of all of these things.
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