I am Charis, from tutorial group 23 and this is my essay on adolescent development. The family that we interviewed is a nuclear family comprising a couple, Mr Ha and Madam Si, both age 46 and their only child, Miss Fa age 17. Our main client is Miss Fa and the developmental stage that she is in right now is adolescent. In the next few paragraphs I will be discussing more about the key information of Miss Fa, her physical, cognitive, psychological and moral developmental stages, factors that impacted her well-being as well as the numerous community resources available to Miss Fa. Miss Fa is in her first year of Bio-medical engineering in Temasek Polytechnic. Her family’s religion is Islamic and they reside in a five-room flat. She has
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In the conventional stage, preteens tend to be very polarized in their thinking. Polarized thinking is a wrong way of thinking among pre-teens that only sees issues in black or white. In post conventional thinking an individual is able to see issues from another perspective. (Potts, Mandleco, M, and leco, 2006) Miss Fa recalled to us one incident that occurred in her poly where a student got expelled for a history of truancy, while most of her peers felt that the student deserved it, she’s able to take another perspective and wondered if the student’s truancy was a result of family problems. When Miss Fa was younger rules are very clear, simple to understand and follow. However now that she is in the stage of adolescent, she has come to a realisation that rules are not as clear and simple as they appear to be, there is always a blurred line in …show more content…
It will enhance her self-esteem which helps to maintain and promote psychological heath. Not only that but volunteering will also reduce depression. Besides that, Health Promotional Board is also teaming up with schools to discourage the canteen vendors from selling deep fried food and high sugared drinks. Instead the stall vendors are encouraged to sell healthy food that has less oil, less salt and more vegetables. This is good for Miss Fa’s physical development as it will prevent obesity as studies have shown that there is an increasing trend of adolescents becoming obese. Many factors have affected Miss Fa’s physical, cognitive, psychosocial and moral development, some has a good outcome and others which are less ideal. The 3 main factors which impacted her physical, psychosocial and emotional well-being are family, friends and social media. Community resources that contributed and promoted Miss Fa’s health are easy access to sports facilities, CCAs, health promotion board push for healthy food as well as
In the conventional stage, preteens tend to be very polarized in their thinking. Polarized thinking is a wrong way of thinking among pre-teens that only sees issues in black or white. In post conventional thinking an individual is able to see issues from another perspective. (Potts, Mandleco, M, and leco, 2006) Miss Fa recalled to us one incident that occurred in her poly where a student got expelled for a history of truancy, while most of her peers felt that the student deserved it, she’s able to take another perspective and wondered if the student’s truancy was a result of family problems. When Miss Fa was younger rules are very clear, simple to understand and follow. However now that she is in the stage of adolescent, she has come to a realisation that rules are not as clear and simple as they appear to be, there is always a blurred line in …show more content…
It will enhance her self-esteem which helps to maintain and promote psychological heath. Not only that but volunteering will also reduce depression. Besides that, Health Promotional Board is also teaming up with schools to discourage the canteen vendors from selling deep fried food and high sugared drinks. Instead the stall vendors are encouraged to sell healthy food that has less oil, less salt and more vegetables. This is good for Miss Fa’s physical development as it will prevent obesity as studies have shown that there is an increasing trend of adolescents becoming obese. Many factors have affected Miss Fa’s physical, cognitive, psychosocial and moral development, some has a good outcome and others which are less ideal. The 3 main factors which impacted her physical, psychosocial and emotional well-being are family, friends and social media. Community resources that contributed and promoted Miss Fa’s health are easy access to sports facilities, CCAs, health promotion board push for healthy food as well as