Growth and Development

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Growth and Development

• By Mrs. McCann
• Principles of Human Services

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Chronological Growth

• Everyone ages, we all have birthdays.
• Questions
• What was your favorite age?
• Why?

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Physical Growth

• We all grow physically until we reach our mature
  adult body.
• Girls (9 y.o.) mature faster than boys (11 y.o.)
• Questions
• How does the different rate of maturity affect
  teens?
• Can your growth be influenced?
• How do hormones affect growth?

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Emotional Growth

• Maturing is emotional growth.
• During adolescence you will experience mood
  swings. This is due to hormones.
• No man is an island! (we need others)
• Think of the Tom Hanks movie Castaway! He
  developed a relationship with a volleyball he
  named Wilson!
• The way people express their feelings shows
  maturity.

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Social Growth

• As you mature you also grow socially.
• People learn to take turns and share with others.
  
• Allows people to have good times with other
  people and to enjoy life.

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Questions

• I like to be with my friends when it
• comes to . . ?
• 2. I like to be different from my friends when
  it comes to . . .?
• I like it when my friends . . . ?
• Teens worry about . . . ?
• 5. Growing up is hard because. . . ?
• 6. Teens are sensitive about . . . ?

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Intellectual Growth

• People continue to learn and grow intellectually
  all throughout their life.
• People develop the ability to reason and think
  complex thoughts.
• A stimulating environment promotes intellectual
  growth.

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Robert Havighurst

• human development researcher
• Theory Developmental Tasks
• All humans have development tasks that they must
  master. Each task mastered results in a sense of
  personal achievement and the desire to learn a
  new task.

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Developmental Tasks for Teens

1. Accept your physique and use your body
   effectively.
2. Establish emotional independence from your
   parents and other adults.
3. Achieve new and more mature relations with age
   mates.
4. Adopt socially approved masculine/feminine adult
   roles.

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continued

• Select and prepare for an occupation
• Develop a personal attitude toward marriage and
  family living
• Adopt personal behavior standards.
• Accept and adopt socially responsible behavior.

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Abraham Maslow

• Another human development researcher with a
  different theory.
• Pyramid shaped icon to explain that the most
  basic needs are the base of human development. As
  those needs are met, a person can progress to the
  next level of development.
• People can move up and down the pyramid.

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Maslows Pyramid
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Self Actualization

• The top of the pyramid! All of your needs are
  met. You are able to independently operate as an
  adult in society. Also you are able to give
  back to society.