These blogs are written for the purpose of providing knowledge to people who want to learn more about adolescent development. Through these various writings, there will be different types of information to learn about adolescent behavior in today's world. Enjoy.
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The process of adolescent development has always been complex, with a myriad of biological, mental, and social changes. In our increasingly complex world it becomes even more difficult for adolescents to navigate their way into adulthood. The following selections touch on topics such as first jobs, international identity, relationships, social media, and others to get a glimpse at what life is like for the youth of today and hopefully offer insight and advice to parents and their adolescents.
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This resource goes over the importance of parental involvement during puberty, Piaget's stages of cognitive development, the importance of sleep during adolescent development, and the impact of media on adolescents as well as working during adolescence.
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This is a blog wrritten about puberty from the perspective of a parent of whom has an adolescent at home that is currently experiencing puberty. In it, he discusses the changes that his son is going through and his personal recation to it.
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This is a blog written about dating as it pertains to specific cultures.
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This is a blog that is on socialization written by an author of whom is an only child. In it, she shares her experiences.
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This is a blog wriiten on risky behvavior. In it, the author discusses risky behavior that adolesecnts commonly exhibit.
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This is a blog that is written on Erik Erikson's 8 stages of psychosocial development.
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This is a blog that is written on what parents should know about how to teach their children about what occurs during puberty.
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This is a blog that is written on love from a psychological standpoint.
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This is a blog that compares parenting styles to specific disney characters.
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This is a collection of blogs written by students in a Psychology course focusing on Adolescent and Adult Development at Boise State University. Topics covered include but aren't limited to: Parenting, Media, Love & Relationships, and Puberty. Authors: Heather Whittaker, Jesse Peters, Parker Rising Evans, Rael Jensen, & Shyann Gambill
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A review of different parenting styles with an emphasis on authoritative parenting.
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This covers the topic of Sternberg's Theory of Love.
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Anthology of student perspectives concerning different aspect of adololescent and adult development. Students blogs cover a range of topics, such as media influence, education, parenting styles, and externalizing problems.
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Students enrolled in an Adolescent and Adult Development Psychology course at Boise State University collaborated to create a blog answering this prompt: Summarize and integrate what we have learned so far in this course about the adolescent period of life, focusing particularly on the importance of family and friends as sources of socialization and as responders to the physical and mental changes that adolescents are undergoing.Authors: Heather Whittaker, Parker Rising Evans, Shyann Gambill, Jesse Peters, Brooklynn Adams, Maddie Blew, Chase Dreksler, Kyle Dumpel, Sophia Falsev, Hanah Hazel, Daddy Boy Huddy-Nahalea, Rael Jensen, Kylie Johnson, Alex Low, Carson Manning, Melissa Ness, Taylor Oxley, Jacqueline Reyes, Hailey Reynolds, Colin Shillingburg, Hannah Swenson, Austin Thompson, Julie Vasilyev, and Cooper Wilcox
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As a group, we were assigned the task to teach the rest of our class about some of the externalizing behaviors that adolescents experience. We put together this video in order to show how we went about accomplishing that task.
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A review of the Love And Sexuality lesson plan that I used in my PSYC 310 class.
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Teaching on family relationships to upper divsion college level students. This video is a presentation about how four college students went about teaching the class. We used small lectures (5-10 slides max), groups activity worksheets, and application exercises. This format focuses on the application of the students' knowledge, having them process a situation they one day might experience themselves.
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This is our video presentation on friends and peer gorups for our physchology class. We covered how we approached the topic as well as what our learning objectives and and learning material we used. We hope you enjoy our video and take something away from it.
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