Psychology

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Developmental psychology
The textbook has various topics and subsequent subtopics written in details under them. For this essay I decided to write extensively on the adolescence stage of developmental psychology. This is one of the stages that children go through before adulthood. The other stages that appear in developmental psychology include infancy, early childhood as well as the later childhood which are the stages that precede adolescence stage. Adulthood comes after adolescence and that starts at the age of 18. This stage of development is mostly shaped by the society as well as close family members. At the level of the society, most of the socialization processes at this stage is derived from peers or individuals of the same age. The individual at this stage tends to be on the verge of self-realization and gets understand their attraction and sexuality to the individuals of the opposite sex.[Kathleen, Stassen. The Developing Person Through the Lifespan. 8th Edition. Berlin: Worth Publishing Company.2002. Print]
Understanding of this stage is that since this age is too close to adulthood, it is the perfect time for the adolescents to make decisions regarding their future. These decisions include that which regards career and raising a family. They start making decisions on the kinds of friends they should have and what to buy with the money they have acquired. There starts to be some sort of distance between them and their parents. They still manage to view their parents and other close elderly relatives as role model and so they should provide reliable guidance to these teenagers in regards to how they should approach issues in life. Guidance should be availed to these teenagers on such fields like getting along with others or simply just about future jobs.[Havighurst, Robert. Developmental tasks and education. New Jersey: David McKay. 1952. Print]
Adolescents face developmental issues and a wide range of them at that. Some of the issues involve relationship and work. Commitment to goals and intimacy come in as some of the factors that these adolescents face. Adolescents also face the desire to be independent and to be cognitively functioning adults who have developed well to face escalating and rapid changes that are occurring in the labor market and the challenges that they have to face after secondary school. Study has shown that the adolescents face difficulties as they leave high school quite unprepared for realities that they get to face as soon as they are out of the controlled school environment.[Havighurst, Robert. Developmental tasks and education. New Jersey: David McKay. 1952. Print]
At this stage in life the adolescents require various guidance and counseling strategies so as to help them facilitate a rather smooth transition. These strategies include developing multiple plans and not just depend on a rigid plan that they have to follow religiously the career paths they had...