PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Juliana Felena Villarosa

➢ Self-confidence - It appears in the relationships and relationships with

process of personal development, as a friends, family, co-students, and
CHAPTER 1:
result of getting aware of yourself, strangers in social settings.
● Self development your actions, and their consequences ● Nutritional Self. This is how you
● Developing the Whole Person ➢ Persistence – It makes you keep nourish yourself, it includes what
● Developmental Stages in Adolescence moving forward regardless of foods you like and dislike.
● Challenges of Adolescence emerging obstacles – problems, ● Contextual Self. It is in the areas of
● Coping with Stress laziness, bad emotional state, etc. maintenance of your living
● Aspects of Personal Development ➢ Managing stress - It helps combat environment: reaction to light,
● Mental Health and Well-being stress that arises in daily life from temperature, space, weather, colors,
the environment and other people. sound, and seasons and your impact on
SELF DEVELOPMENT
➢ Problem-solving skills – They help the environment.
● Ideal self - is the self that you
cope with the problems encountered ● Spiritual Self or Life Force. It is
aspire to be.
with a lack of experience. about your feelings about yourself and
● • Actual self - is the real self and is
➢ Creativity - It allows you to find organized religion, reactions about
built on self knowledge.
extraordinary ways to carry out a your spiritual connections to others,
● • Self-concept- refers to your
specific action that no one has tried feelings about your spiritual
awareness of your actual self and ideal
to use. development and history, and thought
self.
➢ Generating ideas – It helps you about your metaphysical self
● • Self-Development- is the growth
achieve goals using new, original,
or improvement of one's qualities and
unconventional ideas.
abilities
● Personal effectiveness -making use ASPECT DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
of all the personal resources – ● Physical Self. It describes your
talents,skills, energy, and time to height, weight, facial appearance, and
enable you to achieve life goals. quality of skin, hair, and descriptions
● Experience includes knowledge of body areas such as your neck,

and skills that we acquire in the chest, waist, legs.

● Intellectual Self. This is how well you
process of cognitive and practical
reason and solve problems, your
activities.
capacity to learn and create, your
- Knowledge is required for setting
general amount of knowledge, your
goals, defining an action plan to specific areas of knowledge, the
achieve them, and risk assessment. wisdom you have acquired, and the
CHALLENGES OF ADOLESCENCE
- Skills also determine whether real insights you have.
● Biological Challenges-Adolescence
actions are performed by the plan. ● Emotional Self. It is the typical
begins with the first well-defined
SKILL THAT WILL GREATLY feelings you have, feelings you seldom
maturation event called puberty
have, feelings you try to avoid,
INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF ANY ● Cognitive Challenges - Piaget, in his theory
feelings you especially enjoy, feelings of social development believed that
PERSON adolescence is the time when young people
from your past and present, and
➢ Determination - It allows you to develop cognitively from “concrete
feelings that are associated with each operations” to “formal operations”.
focus only on achieving a specific goal
other ● Psychological Challenges-The
without being distracted by less
● Sensual Self. It is what you feel like psychological challenges that the
important things or spontaneouS
a sensual person. adolescent must cope with are moving
desires from childhood to adulthood.
● Interactional Self. It is about your
strengths and weaknesses in intimate
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we interact with each other. It has ❖ Anger

affected teenage lifestyles the most. ❖ Panic
11. Aggression and violence - Aggression ❖ Dejection
11 Common Problems of Adolescence
is especially a concern with adolescent KEEP STRESS UNDER CONTROL
1. Physical changes - Physical changes
boys ➢ Understand the cause of stress
happen due to change in the teenager’s
➢ Analyze your stress factors and write
hormone levels. Challenges of Adolescence
them down
2. Emotional changes and problems- ● Mental health- the condition of being ➢ Deal with the stressors
Hormones affect teenager not only sound mentally and emotionally that is
➢ Learn to work under pressure or
physically but also emotionally characterized by the absence of
3. Behavioral changes-Overwhelming unusual conditions.
mental illness and by adequate
emotions can lead to impulsive adjustment especially as reflected in THE POWERS OF MIND
behavior, which can be harmful to a feeling comfortable about oneself,
3 MAJOR PARTS OF THE BRAIN
child as well as others. positive feelings about others, and the
★ BRAIN STEM - connects the spinal
4. Substance Use and Abuse - ability to meet the demands of daily
cord and the brain. It controls
Teenagers are vulnerable and can be life.
functions that keep people alive such
easily swayed to the wrong side. ● Well-being- the state of being happy,
as breathing, heart rate, blood
Substance abuse is one of the biggest healthy, or prosperous.
pressure,and food digestion.
problems that parents of adolescents
★ CEREBELLUM - It controls voluntary
around the world have to deal with.
movement.It translate your will into
5. Educational challenges- High school
action
is not all about fashion, friends, and
★ CEREBRUM- largest of the 3 brain
parties. Children also have a lot of
sections,accounts for 85% of the
educational activities on their plate.
brain’s weight and has four lobes.
6. Health problems- Adolescents are
vulnerable emotionally and physically.
Without proper nutrition and
healthcare, they are susceptible to
COPING WITH STRESS
illnesses.
7. Psychological problems -Research has ● Stress is a state of mental and
revealed that around 50% of mental emotional strain or tension resulting
health disorders that adults have, from adverse or very demanding
begin at the age of 14. In fact, circumstances.
one-third of adolescent deaths are ● Stressors are things that make a
suicides triggered by depression. person stressed.
8. Social problems – dating and ● Stress Management -From Webster's
relationships- Attraction to the it describes that it is an EMOTIONAL
opposite sex begins during puberty. FACTOR THAT CAUSES BODILY OR
9. Sexual health – unplanned pregnancy MENTAL TENSION.
and STIs- The development of Causes and effect of Stress
secondary sexual characteristics ❖ Anxiety
during adolescence gives rise to new ❖ Pressure
feelings in teenagers and pushes them ❖ Misery
to experiment with their bodies. ❖ Strain
10. Addiction to cyberspace- The advent ❖ Desperation

of social media has changed the way ❖ Tension

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MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL- BEING IN ❖ Depression- Is a mental health

MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE challenge that makes people feel very
Mental health - It’s a way your thoughts, sad all the time
feelings, and behaviors affect your life. ❖ Post-Traumatic Stress disorder
Good mental health - leads to positive (PTSD) - Sometimes if you see or live
self-image and turn, satisfying relationship through something very scary, you can
with friends and others. It also helps you make keep feeling afraid even after the
good decisions and deal with life’s challenges at scary part is over
home, work and school. ❖ Schizophrenia- Makes hard for people
Self-Esteem- Is all about how much you feel to know what is real and what is not
your worth- and how much you feel other real
people value you
Body Esteem/Image- Is how you view your
physical self, including whether you feel you
are attractive and whether others like your
looks.
WHAT INFLUENCES A PERSON’S SELF –
ESTEEM?
1. PUBERTY AND DEVELOPMENT
2. MEDIA IMAGES AND OTHER OUTSIDE
INFLUENCES
3. FAMILIES AND SCHOOL
Common Eating Disorder
Anorexia- It is having a fear of weight gain and
distorted view of their body shape and size.
Bulimia-is similar to anorexia, people might binge eat
and then try to compensate in extreme ways, such as
making themselves throw up or exercising all the
time, to prevent weight gain.
TYPES OF MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES
❖ ADHD (Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder)-is pretty
common and it makes hard for you to
focus and sit still.
❖ Anxiety (Panic Disorder) - Feeling
anxious and nervous. These strong,
sudden feelings of stress or fear are
called “panic attacks.”
❖ Autism Spectrum Disorder- Changes
the way the brain understands the
world.
❖ Bi-Polar Disorder- Changes the way
the people feel emotions. Their
emotions can go from happy to sad
very quickly