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Young Adulthood age range?
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18 - 30 y/o
(18 - 25 y/o emerging adulthood) |
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Arnett study: Young adult's answers to what were important qualifications for adulthood?
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• Accepting responsibility for consequences of own actions
• Making independent decisions • Becoming financially independent |
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What are Marker Events?
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Examples: graduating from college, getting married, having kids
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Young adulthood is a shift toward "what" and "what"?
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Autonomy and Independence
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Physical Development - By when do most young adults reach full physical growth?
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18 - 20 y/o
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Physical Development - Not all all physical capabilities reach peak at the same time:
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• Visual acuity best: before age 20, then declines post age 40
• Auditory acuity best: before age 20, then declines • Muscular strength best: declines after 30 |
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Physical Development - Individual differences:
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• Height: 15" female or 18-20" male
• Superathletes Practice, training fine motor, eye-hand skills, stamina |
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Lifestyle and Risky Behavior in young adulthood:
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• Those in college drink more and use more marijuana than those who did not attend college
• Problem drinking and drug use declines by mid-20s |
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Why more unhealthy lifestyles in young adulthood?
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• Poor application of problem solving skills
• Sense of invulnerability • Stress from leaving home and academic/work demands |
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How does the brain change in young adulthood?
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• Pruning from synaptogenesis in puberty continues in early adulthood → expanded capacity for cognitive advancement
• Accelerated maturing of electrical activity in the frontal cortex – ages 17-21 → advanced development of frontal lobe functions; Organize/reorganize attention, plan, exercise control over one’s behavior and emotions |
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Cognitive Development in Young Adulthood:
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• More that 60% of young adults in US attend college
• Time of learning either in college or at work • Knowledge acquisition and breadth (i.e., understanding verbal meanings) improves greatly during this time. • Improvements in many skills – spatial orientation abilities, and inductive reasoning skills |
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Improvements in Logical Thinking - What stage is this?
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Postformal or fifth-stage thinking
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What is Postformal or fifth-stage thinking?
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Can understand logic behind contradictory perspectives—can integrate these perspectives into a larger whole
• Can recognize that more than one approach may be valid |
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Postformal thinking is what kind of thinking?
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Relativistic -
• Realization that there is more than one “truth system” that can describe a particular situation/event • Example: more than one theory of etiology/dev’t of a certain mental disorder – Recognition that each theory can be true for certain cases/circumstances |
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What is Postskeptical Rationalism
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Making a commitment to one theory/approach, while simultaneously acknowledging that other theories/approaches may also be true of applicable
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Clinical applications of postformal, relativistic thinking/Postskeptical Rationalism:
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Most problems in life involve uncertainty
• Relativistic thinking important in adulthood • Ability to generate solutions, assess advantages/disadvantages, integrate aspects of several possible solutions • Relativistic thinking develops gradually Can promote relativistic and reflective thinking in young adult clients • Be respectful of their thinking, but also supportive • Provide opportunities for client to gather info about an issue, evaluate that information, and then draw conclusions • Teach client how to examine their assumptions in decision-making and how to examine problems from multiple perspectives |
