Storm and Stress in Adolescence

Agenda

Today

• Stats on last week's test
  
• Reaction Paper check-in
• Closing Qs on Middle Childhood (Ch 9 & 10)
• Context  and perspectives of adolescence
• Blog Discussion: Mendle et al. (2010)
  
• Worksheet: Stress in Adolescence

Agenda

Thursday

• Presentation from:  Stela, Karina, Wiktoria, Regina and May
• Test review
• Review Physical/Cognitive changes in Adolescence through Early Adulthood (Ch 11 & 13)
• Worksheet: Intelligence in Education

Next week

• Blog: Ruck et al. (2016) & skim Ruck et al. (2017)
• Reaction Paper: 11/01 by 11:59pm
• Presentation: Shanice, Aiyana, Zenzele, Anisha, Dana

The Midterm

• Reminder: out of 40 pts,
  • (course offers 54pts more than necessary for A+)
• 4 bad questions were tossed out (sorry!)
• Grades/Review Thursday

Reaction Paper

• Two more movie options:
  • Lady Bird (2017)
  • Room (2015)
• Remove (unless you already did)
  • Amour (2012)
• Let me know today if you need help accessing

Due November 1st!

Questions from last week?

Adolescence

What is Adolescence?

Adolescence

History

• G Stanley Hall...gets scary👻
  • Time for them to "burn out the vestiges of evil in their nature” engulfed in a period of "storm and stress"
  • Hall based development on Evolution, saw adolescence as transition from savages to civilized beings
    • Theory of development (and adolescence) used to justify white-supremacy
  • Advocated for charismatic authoritarian leaders to conduct eugenics/genocide lest society collapsed

Hall, G. Stanley (1904). "Adolescence: ITS PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS RELATIONS TO PHYSIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, SEX, CRIME, RELIGION AND EDUCATION". Classics in the History of Psychology. 2. Retrieved November 16, 2011.

Adolescence

Biological

• G Stanley Hall - "Storm and Stress", savage instincts from evolutionary past
• Anna Freud (1969) biological forces drive the genital stage, creating volatility which must be resolved.

Social

"Storm" of adolescence may be overstated

(adolescence transition is 3% rise in disturbances, to adult levels)

• Erikson- Identity v. Role Confusion
• Margaret Mead (1928)- Antropologist described a peaceful and sexually active  adolescence among Samoans

Puberty (Blog)

• Puberty Timing?
• Puberty Tempo? * Newer concept
• Hypotheses:  A more rapid tempo and/or early timing  is associated with symptoms of depression
• Participants: NYC public school students over 4 years
  • Working class areas of Queens, Brooklyn and Yonkers

Puberty (Blog)

Methodology

• Longitudinal
• 4  In-home structured interviews with parent (mothers)
• paper survey of parent and child
• Measured:
  • Demographics
  • Pubertal status (Tanner stages--pubic hair measure)
  • Depression symptoms (Children's Depression Inventory)

Major Results

•  Early timing stronger predictor in girls
• Rapid tempo stronger predictor in boys
• Early timing and rapid temp is highest risk

Blog Discussion

Bloggers:

Maria Sofia

Jessica

Zenzele

Shanice

Freddy

Worksheet

• Why do you think adolescence has the reputation for being a ”stormy” and “stressful” (and often “rebellious”) period?
• Do you think adolescence is generally stormy and stressful?
• How would you characterize your own adolescence?
• Outline some 3+ factors which may have made it this way?