Adolescent Development E-Learning Module
Sustainable Development Goals: 8
- SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
Overview
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Purpose of This Course
By understanding adolescent development, we can better appreciate how and why young people behave the way they do, and we can help young people make better decisions about their sexual health.
This course will focus on four key areas:
- Part 1: Biological and brain development
- Part 2: Cognitive development
- Part 3: Identity and social development
- Part 4: Promoting healthy youth development
By the end of this course, participants will understand:
- Basic biological and brain-related changes that occur during adolescence and how these changes influence adolescent thinking and behavior
- Major cognitive changes that occur during adolescence and how adolescents’ thinking increases their likelihood of risk-taking and engaging in unsafe behavior
- How adolescents develop identity and other key social developmental milestones of adolescence
- Key factors that promote healthy youth development and how to implement these features in working with teens
“Typical” adolescent development
While each teenager is an individual with a unique personality and interests, there are also many developmental milestones—or issues—that everyone faces during adolescence. In this course, we’ll focus on typical adolescent development – that is, the growth, behaviors, and feelings that developmental scientists have found to be common and predictable for the majority of adolescents.