Understanding Adolescents
Description
About This CourseYesterday, she was a sweet young girl. Today, you swear aliens
have abducted her and put an evil twin in her place.
To know your kids is to love them. In this course, an experienced
social worker will help you gain a deep understanding and
appreciation of your adolescent's development and behavior. You'll
uncover the secrets of the adolescent mind and gain valuable
information on how they think, how they feel, and how their
identities develop.
Parents, family members, child and youth workers, counselors and
the like will all benefit from the information shared in this
course.
You'll learn about the many physical, emotional, and cognitive
changes that affect the teens in …
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Yesterday, she was a sweet young girl. Today, you swear aliens
have abducted her and put an evil twin in her place.
To know your kids is to love them. In this course, an experienced
social worker will help you gain a deep understanding and
appreciation of your adolescent's development and behavior. You'll
uncover the secrets of the adolescent mind and gain valuable
information on how they think, how they feel, and how their
identities develop.
Parents, family members, child and youth workers, counselors and
the like will all benefit from the information shared in this
course.
You'll learn about the many physical, emotional, and cognitive
changes that affect the teens in your life, and you'll understand
the significance of these changes both for you and the adolescent.
You'll look into relationships both in and outside of the home and
the development of a teen's identity. You'll explore personality,
moral development and the role of faith.
Finally, you'll gain an understanding as to how teens are affected
by stress, including common defense mechanisms, coping techniques,
and common mental health issues.
By the time you finish this course, you should be very
well-prepared to understand, appreciate, and meet the needs of the
teens in your life.
This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor for this course will be Sonya Jodoin.
Sonya Jodoin has been involved in social work and youth work for over eighteen years. She holds a diploma in Social Service Work and has had continual education in psychology. She brings to the course both professional and personal experience in the field of adolescence, along with training in a multitude of treatment modalities, approaches, and therapies. She has worked on the front line in mental health settings with individuals and their families, primarily with teenagers. Ms. Jodoin has developed and implemented a specialized joint educational/mental health treatment program for children whose behavior has resulted in school expulsion.
SyllabusA new section of each course starts monthly. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.
Week 1
Wednesday - Lesson 01In our first lesson, I'll explain the term adolescent development and familiarize you with some terminology. I'll also provide you with an overview of the three main stages of adolescence to help you become familiar with the tasks and milestones inherent in each stage.
Friday - Lesson 02Adolescence is a time of change. These changes occur on the outside as well as on the inside. For this lesson, we’re going to focus on some external changes, and one of the things we'll look at is puberty, the impact it can have on the adolescent, as well as how these changes can affect how you treat an adolescent.
Week 2
Wednesday - Lesson 03In this lesson, we'll start looking at some of the internal changes kids experience during adolescence. As children's bodies take huge leaps forward, so do their brains as they learn and discover new ways of thinking and reasoning. This is cognitive development, which means how someone thinks, and that'll be our focus for this lesson.
Friday - Lesson 04The dreaded peer group. During today's lesson, we’ll take a close look at socialization, peers and peer groups, friends, intimacy, and social changes in your adolescent's behavior.
Week 3
Wednesday - Lesson 05One of the things that changes most during adolescence is a child's family relationships and how family members interact with each other. In this lesson, we'll take a look at some of those changes and the impact this may have on both the adolescent and the family.
Friday - Lesson 06Emotional development is one of the internal changes that evolves during adolescence. During today's lesson we’ll take a look at some aspects of emotions and their development, and the significance this may have for adolescent development.
Week 4
Wednesday - Lesson 07This is the “Who Am I?” lesson. Today, we'll explore how we think about ourselves, how our identity develops, what might influence our identity, and our self-concept.
Friday - Lesson 08Today's lesson is all about moral development and faith separate from religion. We'll look at how the changes to the adolescent play a role in their moral development. You'll become familiar with the overall thoughts, ideas and processes that seem common to adolescent moral development.
Week 5
Wednesday - Lesson 09In this lesson, we're going to take a close look at stress, anxiety, frustration, and defense mechanisms. We'll explore how these things affect all of us and how some of this is demonstrated during adolescence.
Friday - Lesson 10For this lesson, we'll adopt a slightly different format. Today, we'll look at four separate things: nature versus nurture, temperament, personality, and resiliency. The main thread carried throughout this lesson is how a better understanding of ourselves can help us to better understand others.
Week 6
Wednesday - Lesson 11Similar to the last lesson, today we'll look at a few more distinct topics. First we'll review some of the adolescent needs that we've discussed prior to this lesson, then we'll discuss chronic illness, gay and lesbian youth and the issues these individuals may be faced with, and finally a chapter highlighting parenting the adolescent.
Friday - Lesson 12For our last lesson, we're going to stray from the normal to the abnormal part of adolescent development. The focus of this lesson will be a brief overview of disorders or conditions that are consistently viewed within the adolescent population.
Requirements
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