Puberty drives the adolescent to

experiences surges of sexual desires, which

often lead them to experimentation and
exploration.

Sexual Relationship is healthy

when the adolescent sees this as part of
loving relationship and not as something
that is just for exploration and pleasure.
 The role of a student is the primary
role of an adolescence who is still in school.

What is the proper attitude a learner

should have?
Being responsible is called for when
dealing with academic challenges. Be aware
that academic grades are not the only
indicators of learning.
 An Adolescence wants to belong.
While there is a urge to be independent
and autonomous from his family and
parents, there is also the urge to seek a
replacement of this support system, this
time in a form of social group such as
school friends, membership in an
organizations and community.
 An adolescence with a low self-
esteem might be drawn toward
organizations that promise camaraderie in
the form of “Walang Iwanan,” “Do or die,” or
“One for all, all for one” kind of social
support.
 A healthy mind and body is what
every adolescence should strive for. However,
adolescence, because of their growing bodies
and brains, are gifted with so much energy
that seems inexhaustible, resulting in abuse of
one’s body and mind. “Learn to Listen to your
body”
 Avoid unhealthy food.
 Drink plenty of clean water.
 Embrace a healthy lifestyle.
 Long exposure to television and screen
gadgets are only unhealthy.
 Adolescence who are creating their
self-identity should be objective and
balanced when viewing themselves.

Objective means seeing one’s self as

having both strengths and weaknesses or
having both positive and negative
characteristics.
Balancing how one see’s oneself means to
avoid over-emphasizing an aspect to one’s
identity to the detriment of another aspect.

Individuals who often encounter

criticism at home and in school develop low
self-esteem. This is because the underlying
message in criticism is “ you are not good
enough for me”
 Especially if the criticism came from an
important person in a person’s life.
Children who grew up in criticism will result
in losing their self-respect.

The only way to develop his self-esteem
necessary for him to lead a healthier life is
about caring for oneself, creating and owning
positive and healthy concept like “I am a good
person” and “ I am strong and can accept
challenges.”
 Related to self-esteem is one’s
perception of one’s body type and skin
complexion. Adolescent’s at this stage are
very self-conscious, and often view
themselves unattractive, lacking the kind of
physical look.
In improving one’s image, consultants
from image industry offers several options:
 Finding out one’s color directions.
 Accepting one’s body type.
 Selecting appropriate cuts and design for one’s
clothing to improve the visual perception of
one’s overall image, and celebrating one’s
physical beauty as one’s own and not as
dictated by the society or media.

 Proper Grooming and self-care help

improves one’s feeling and attitude about self.
 All human being has a roles to
play in lives. A adolescence whose
self-identity is clear and whose roles
are integrated will understand and
accept the situation.
A healthy adolescent will
recognized not merely the roles but
the values being expected from
him/her..
 Balancing his/her time and energy in
addressing such responsibilities demanded by
each roles can be achieved through discipline
and time management
 Unavailability of things they desire due to
poverty.
 Due to poverty parents choose to work
abroad to sustain the needs of their family
whose left behind. The impacts of parents
absence will only lead into 2 things.

Some may react negatively which may

result in rebellious acts, emotional
blackmailing and wanting to buys material
things to replace the absence of their
parents;
 And others may react positively. Accept
the real situation and use this unpleasant
situation into an opportunity and challenge for
growth and improvement to achieve higher
and greater result in whatever they do.

Support system are necessary for growing

person, an adolescent whose parents are
abroad should be able to identify people to
trust and people they can lean on in times of
need. It can be family relative or friend who
care for his well being.
 The adolescent who is creating identity for
himself is faced with an urgent need to identify
what course to take in college and establish a
career path in the future.

When finding the right career, adolescent

need to know what their interest are, what
things they find exciting and what their skill are.
It has often been said that “In pursuing a career,
look at what you love to do and are passionate
about, and money will follow.”
 Maintaining healthy relationships require
a certain level of maturity. An adolescent
who is still in the process of acquiring
maturity may often find maintaining
relationship challenging.

Among friends, adolescents can be more

relaxed. Healthy friendship is necessary for
adolescents’ social development, but challenge
in maintaining them is equally challenging.
 Envy due comparison is also a major cause of
breakdown of relationship.

Romantic Relationships are inevitable and

equally challenging to an adolescent. When
emotions are involved, it is often difficult to be
objective, and many adolescent are still developing
their skill in understanding emotions. Breakups in
romantic relationship is frequent because of
immaturity.
 Universal human value do adolescents uphold?
“it can be relationship and /or family”
 When you ask adolescents about their belief,
the answer is something related to their
religious belief. Belief is not just limited to
religious matters, but also to human needs
like a safe and clean environment.
 There are many other challenges facing
adolescent, and some may not even aware
that they experiencing, like depression etc.