MODULE 3: DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES IN MIDDLE AND LATE

ADOLESCENCE

“Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-

I. PERSONAL TIMELINE – portrays the influential events and happenings of a person’s life so that he
can understand where he has gone wrong and right in the past; helps to plan the future in a better
constructive way
II. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – focuses on human growth and changes across the lifespan, including
physical, cognitive, social, intellectual, perceptual, personality and emotional growth
III. DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE CHARACTERISTICS
1. PRE-NATAL Age when hereditary endowments and sex are
(Birth) fixed and all body features, both external and
internal are developed
2. INFANCY Foundation age when basic behavior are organized
(Birth – 2 years) and many ontogenetic maturation skills are
developed
3. EARLY CHILDHOOD Pre-gang age, exploratory, and questioning.
(2 – 6 years) Language and elementary reasoning are acquired
and initial socialization is experienced.
4. LATE CHILDHOOD Gang and creativity age when self-help skills,
(6 – 12 years) social skills, school skills, and play are developed
5. ADOLESCENCE Transition age from childhood to adulthood when
(Puberty – 18 years) sex maturation and rapid physical development
occur resulting to changes in ways of feeling,
thinking and acting
6. EARLY ADULTHOOD Age of adjustment to new patterns of life and roles
(18 – 40 years) such as spouse, parent and breadwinner
7. MIDDLE AGE Transition age when adjustments to initial physical
(40 years – retirement) and mental decline are experienced
8. OLD AGE Retirement age when increasingly rapid physical
(Retirement – death) and mental decline are experienced
IV. ROBERT J. HAVIGHURST’S DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS DURING THE LIFESPAN
INFANCY AND EARLY MIDDLE CHILDHOOD ADOLESCENCE
CHILDHOOD (0-5) (6-12) (13-18)
• Learning to walk • Learning physical skills • Achieving mature relations
• Learning to take solid foods necessary for ordinary games with both sexes
• Learning to talk • Building a wholesome • Achieving a masculine or
• Learning to control the attitude toward oneself feminine social role
elimination of body wastes • Learning to get along with • Accepting one’s physique
• Learning sex differences age-mates • Achieving emotional
and sexual modesty • Learning an appropriate sex independence of adults
• Acquiring concepts and role • Preparing for marriage and
language to describe social • Developing fundamental family life
and physical reality skills in reading, writing, • Preparing for an economic
• Readiness for reading and calculating career
• Learning to distinguish right • Developing concepts • Acquiring values and an
from wrong and developing necessary for everyday ethical system to guide
a conscience living behavior
• Developing conscience, • Desiring and achieving
morality, and a scale of socially responsibility
values behavior
• Achieving personal
independence
• Developing acceptable
attitudes toward society
 EARLY ADULTHOOD MIDDLE ADULTHOOD LATER MATURITY
(19-30) (30-60) (61+)
• Selecting a mate • Helping teenage children to • Adjusting to decreasing
• Learning to live with a become happy and strength and health
partner responsible adults • Adjusting to retirement and
• Starting a family • Achieving adult social and reduced income
• Rearing children civic responsibility • Adjusting to death of spouse
• Managing a home • Satisfactory career • Establishing relations with
• Starting an occupation achievement one’s own age group
• Assuming civic • Developing adult leisure • Meeting social and civic
responsibility time activities obligations
• Relating to one’s spouse as a • Establishing satisfactory
person living quarters
• Accepting the physiological
changes of middle age
• Adjusting to aging parent

V. GUIDELINES FOR MINDFUL SPEECH: THINK BY DR. CHRISTOPHER WILLARD

Remember: T.H.I.N.K. Before You Speak. Have Mindful Speech.

VI. LIVING MINDFULLY

Living mindfully is like being an artist: you need the right tools to practice your craft,
and you need to constantly refine your technique to achieve your creative potential.
Using the following tools below will help you to hone a consistent mindfulness practice
that will in time lead to a more aware, compassionate and fulfilling way of life.

BREATHE MINDFULLY

LISTEN DEEPLY

CULTIVATE INSIGHT

PRACTICE COMPASSION

LIMIT REACTIVITY

EXPRESS GRATITUDE

NURTURE MUTUAL RESPECT

BUILD INTEGRITY

FOSTER LEADERSHIP

BE PEACE