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Personal
Development
Quarter 1 – Module 5:
Developmental Tasks and
Challenges of Adolescence
 Personal Development 11/12

Quarter 1 – Module 5: Developmental Tasks and Challenges of Adolescence

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Regional Director: Gilbert T. Sadsad

Assistant Regional Director: Jessie L. Amin

Development Team of the Module

Writers: Marc Nelson Marzo
Editors: Frankie T. Turalde, Randy P. Bacares, Gloria E. Fontelar
Reviewers: Sheila C. Bulawan
Illustrator:
Layout Artist: Jogene Alilly C. San Juan, Antonio L. Morada
l. Introduction:
Hi learner! Are you ready? In this module you will make a list, identify
and categorize some actions of an adolescent.

Also, together with this module, we will discuss about the

developmental tasks and challenges of a person.
Just relax and enjoy the activities. Have Fun!!!

II. Objectives:
To be able to discuss developmental tasks and challenges being
experienced during adolescence.

III. Vocabulary list:

Below are some of the vocabulary words and its meaning:

• Task – a usually assigned piece of work often to be finished within a

certain time

• Social Responsibility – is an ethical framework and suggests that an

individual, has an obligation to act for the benefit of society at large.

• Lifespan – the average length of life of a kind organism or of a

material object especially in a particular environment or under
specified circumstances.
IV. Pre-Test
Directions: On your journal, put “MLBB” (Mobile Legends Bang Bang) if
the sentence states fact. Then, put “LOL” (League of Legends) if the
sentence stated bluff.

___________ 1. Adolescence is the phase of achieving mature

relations with both sexes.
___________ 2. Early adulthood is learning to live with a partner.

___________ 3. In the middle childhood, one of the developmental

tasks is adjusting to aging parenthood.
___________ 4. The Passage to adulthood is to accept the
challenges of the stage of adolescence.

___________ 5. Late maturity is acquiring values and an ethical

system to guide behavior.
Congratulations!!! You completed the pre-test. Are you ready for the next
chapter? Great!!! Let’s go…

V. Learning Activities
ACTIVITY 1: ACHIEVEMENTS

Check the tasks that you think you have already finished as an adolescent.
___ Achieving mature relations with both sexes

___ Achieving a masculine or feminine social role

___ Accepting one’s physique

___ Achieving emotional independence of adults

___ Preparing for marriage and family life

___ Preparing for an economic career

___ Acquiring values and an ethical system to guide behavior

___ Desiring and achieving socially responsibility behavior

Processing Questions:

1. Being in Grade 11/12, what are the tasks expected of you? Rate yourself from
1-10 (10 as the highest).
2. As you are in Grade 11, you are in the stage of transition, right? From high school
to college, from being an adolescent to young adult. How do you feel about this
transition? What is your turning point?
3. Do you think you are ready in this transition which may mean more
responsibilities and greater accountability? If no, what are the expected tasks
you need to work on? If yes, what are the ways so you can better plan for the
future.

ACTIVITY 2: COMPLICATED

From activity 1, what are the tasks where you experience hardships or you feel
challenging. Explain why.

1. _________________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________________

Processing Questions:

1. Why do you think that you experience difficulties in facing the developmental
tasks?

2. As Grade 11, you have encountered those challenges, right? How was it? How
do you feel about these challenges?
3. Do you think that you can surpass those tasks even though there are
difficulties? If yes, what can you do to surpass it. And if no, what are the ways
so that you will obtain success.
 VI. Deepening
GRADUAL CHANGES

The Summary of Developmental task

Middle
Adolescence Early Adulthood Later Maturity
Adulthood
(13-18 (19 – 30) (61+)
(31 – 60)
* Achieving mature * Selecting a mate * Helping teenage * Adjusting to
relations with both children to decreasing
sexes * Learning to live become happy strength and health
with a partner and responsible
*Achieving a adults. * Adjusting to
masculine or * Starting a family retirement and
feminine social * Achieving adult reduced income
role * Rearing a child social and civic
responsibility * Adjusting to
* Accepting one’s * Managing a death of spouse
physique home * Satisfactory
career and * Establishing
*Achieving * Starting an achievement relations with one’s
emotional occupation own age group
independence of * Developing adult
adults * Assuming civic leisure time * Meeting social
responsibility activities and civic
* Preparing for * Relating to one’s obligations
marriage and spouse as a
family life person * Establishing
satisfactory living
* Preparing for an * Accepting the quarters
economic career physiological
changes of middle
* Acquiring values age
and an ethical
system to guide * Adjusting to
behavior aging parent

* Desiring and
achieving socially
responsibility
behavior
 The developmental tasks theory of Robert J. Havighurst elaborated in the most
systematic and extensive manner. His main assertion is that development is
continuous throughout the entire lifespan, occurring in stages, where the individual
moves from one stage to next by means of successful resolution of problems or
performance of developmental tasks.

According to Havighurst, at the stage of adolescence, you must achieve and

prepare the adulthood stage. He emphasizes that an adolescent must already achieve
mature relations with both sexes, masculine or feminine social role, accepting one’s
physique, achieving emotional independence of adults, preparing for marriage and
family life and for an economic career, acquiring values and an ethical system to guide
behavior, desiring and achieving social responsibility behavior. All of these are the
transitions of an adolescent. These are also the activity that were given. Remember?
On your activity 1, you are being asked to check the tasks that you think you had
already finished or completed. While on activity 2 are the tasks you have experience
difficulties and felt challenging as an adolescent. The question is how can an
adolescent achieve those developmental tasks if he/she is facing challenges in life?
Let’s enumerate some risk factors of an adolescent:
1. Drugs 5. School underachievement
2. Alcohol 6. Failure and dropout
3. Unsafe sex 7. Delinquency
4. Teenage pregnancy and 8. Crime
parenting 9. Violence

Jeffrey C. Miller, Ph.D. has a point of view about the developmental challenges
of adolescent/ teenagers. He gave a brief summary of the most significant
developmental issues that an adolescent face:

1. Physical Transformation

Probably the most obvious changes are physical; the teenager or

adolescent is literally transforming from a child to an adult physically. A
transformation that is disorienting to both the teenage and for everyone around
him/her.

2. Sexual development
The teenagers or adolescent years witness the emergence of sexuality,
with all of its hormonal changes, all of its ups and downs and all of its emotional
complications.
3. Separation from parents
It is on a crash course of how to live life with primary dependence on
him/herself rather than being guided, taught and supported by parents.

4. Identity v. role confusion

With growing independence comes the whole challenge of a teenager or

an adolescent learning who he/she is and what role he/she will be playing in
the world regarding friends, family, jobs and etc.

5. Social issues/group identity v. individuality

With growing adulthood, comes the challenge of learning what groups

and communities a person wants to be part of, and how those groups and
communities impact their own sense of individuality.

6. Growing responsibility
A substantial challenge for a teenager or an adolescent is learning to
bear the personal responsibility of living a healthy, productive, compassionate
and caring adult life.

These are some of the developmental challenges facing by an

adolescent. There are many challenges, but these things will help you a lot to
overcome some of those most significant challenges of an adolescent or a
teenager. Now you know why some teenager or adolescent can’t face the
developmental task, it is because of the challenges. It is up to you dear learner.
You are the one who can overcome those challenges.
 VII. Application
Now you have learned more about the developmental task and the
challenges of an adolescent. It is not that easy, is it? Being an adult is so
challenging. Before you can say that you have done already the
developmental tasks, you must face first the challenges of being adolescent.

It’s time to shine learner!

Write your own experiences about the challenges you’ve met, how
you overcome it and how you were able to achieve the developmental task.
Here’s the rubrics for you to learn.

Areas of 4 3 2 1
Assessment Advanced Proficient Basic Beginning
Ideas Presents ideas Presents ideas Ideas are too
Ideas are
in an original in a consistent generalvague or
manner manner unclear
Organization Strong and Organized Some No
organized beg/mid/end
organization; organization;
beg/mid/end attempt at a lack
beg/mid/end beg/mid/end
Understanding Writing shows Writing shows Writing shows Writing shows
strong clear adequate little
understanding understanding understanding understanding
about the about the about the about the
topic/task topic/task topic/task topic/task
Mechanics Very minimal Few errors Several errors Numerous
errors (with 0-3 (with 4-8 (with 9-14 errors (with 15
errors) errors) errors) errors or more)

VIII. Post Test

Read the statements. Put if it is correct. Put if it is wrong. Write
your answers in your Journal Notebook.
___ 1. The adolescence stage is a phase of change and transitions.

___ 2. The developmental task will help the teenager to face the
challenges of life.
___ 3. One of the challenges of an adolescent is to achieve mature
relations both sexes.

___ 4. Acquiring values and an ethical system to guide behavior is

part of Developmental task
 ___ 5. Teenage pregnancy and Teenage parenting are one of the
challenges of an adolescent.

___ 6. Unsafe sex is one of the risk factors of an adolescence.

___ 7. An adolescent must accept physical transformation.
___ 8. Later Maturity is a preparation for marriage and family life.

___ 9. Adolescence is a preparation for an economic career.

___ 10. Separation from parents is one of the common challenges in
adolescence.

IX. Assignment
On your journal, write your realization about the developmental
challenges so that you can pursue to the developmental task. Below is the
rubric for your assignment.

Areas of 4 3 2 1
Assessment Advanced Proficient Basic Beginning
Ideas Presents ideas Presents ideas Ideas are too Ideas are
in an original in a consistent general vague or
manner manner unclear

Organization Strong and Organized Some No

organized beg/mid/end organization; organization;
beg/mid/end attempt at a lack
beg/mid/end beg/mid/end

Understanding Writing shows Writing shows Writing shows Writing shows

strong clear adequate little
understanding understanding understanding understanding
about the about the about the about the
topic/task topic/task topic/task topic/task

Mechanics Very minimal Few errors Several errors Numerous

errors (with 0-3 (with 4-8 errors) (with 9-14 errors (with 15
errors) errors) errors or more)
Key to Correction:

Pre-test

1. MLBB
2. MLBB
3. LOL – Middle Adulthood
4. MLBB
5. LOL – Adolescence

Post Test

1.
2. - Challenges
3. - Developmental Task
4.
5.
6.
7. - Adolescence
8.
9.
10.
References:

Source: Book

Personal Developmental, 21 – 23.

Personal Developmental, Teacher’s Guide, First Edition 2016.

Source: Website content

Jeffmillerphd.com/developmental-challenges-of-adolescentsteenagers/