WEEK 4

Portfolio Output No. 7:

Role Play on Challenges of Middle Adolescence
1. Plan a role play on a specific situation in which a
developmental challenge of middle adolescence is seen in
your everyday living.
2. Practice your role play with your group mates.
3. Perform your role play in class.
4. Make a report on your group’s brainstorming and
performance. Include this report and the script.
THE PASSAGE TO ADULTHOOD:
CHALLENGES OF LATE ADOLECENCE
Physical Development Most girls
have completed the physical
changes related to puberty by
age 15. Boys are still maturing
and gaining strength, muscle
mass, and height and are
completing the development of
sexual traits.
Emotional Development May stress
over school and test scores. Is self-
involved (may have high expectations
and low self-concept). Seeks privacy
and time alone. Is concerned about
physical and sexual attractiveness.
May complain that parents prevent
him or her from doing things
independently. Starts to want both
physical and emotional intimacy in
relationships. The experience of
intimate partnerships
Social Development
• Social Development shifts in relationship with
parents from dependency and subordination to
one that reflects the adolescent’s increasing
maturity and responsibilities in the family and
the community, Is more and more aware of
social behaviors of friends. Seeks friends that
share the same beliefs, values, and interests.
Friends become more important. Starts to
have more intellectual interests. Explores
romantic and sexual behaviors with others.
May be influenced by peers to try risky
behaviors (alcohol, tobacco, sex).
Mental Development
Mental Development 
Becomes better able to set
goals and think in terms of
the future.  Has a better
understanding of complex
problems and issues. 
Starts to develop moral
ideals and to select
ENCOURAGEMENT 101: The Courage to Be
Imperfect by Timothy D. Evans Ph. D.
Encouragement is the key ingredient for improving
your relationships with others. It is the single most
important skill necessary for getting along with
others – so important that the lack of it could be
considered the primary cause of conflict and
misbehavior. Encouragement develops a person’s
psychological hardiness and social interest.
Encouragement is the lifeblood of a relationship.
And yet, this simple concept is often very hard
Most of us are skilled discouragers. We have learned
how to bribe, reward and, when that fails, to punish,
criticize, nag, threaten, interrogate and emotionally
withdraw. We do this as an attempt to control those
we love, bolstered by the mistaken belief that we
are responsible for the behavior of everyone around
us, especially our spouses and children. These
attempts to control behavior create atmospheres of
tension and conflict in many houses.
Most commonly, we discourage in five
general ways:
• We set standards that are too high for others to meet
because we are overly ambitious.
• We focus on mistakes as a way to motivate change or
improved behavior.
• We make constant comparisons (self to others, siblings to
one another).
• We automatically give a negative spin to the actions of
others.
• We dominate others by being overly helpful, implying that
they are unable to do it as well.
THE POWER OF PERSONAL
DECLARATIONS by Dr. Emily DE
CARLO
• So often we accept the declarations that others have made
concerning our own lives, well-being or fate. It is
imperative that we recognize that in order to achieve what
we want in life, we must not give our power away to
others by accepting their declarations concerning our
affairs. When one decides that he or she will boldly declare
good fortune, wellness, joy, etc. relative to his or her life,
all of heaven will break loose! Goodness and mercy shall
surely follow.
• I declare:
• that I am totally free of all addictions.
• that I will survive any attempts of others to control my
life.
• that I am free in my mind, body, and emotions.
• that I am free to set goals and reach them.
• that I am a loving individual with the capacity to give
love.
• that I am a child of God with all rights and privileges
thereof.
• that I will contribute to the welfare of others.
• that I will be an ambassador of goodwill to all I meet on the journey.
• that I will be a good example for others to follow.
• that I will help all that I can to reach their goals.
• that I will speak words of encouragement to others.
• that I will find the goodness in life and focus on it.
• that I will not succumb to the negative influences of others.
• that I will read the information that will encourage my personal, and
spiritual growth.
• that I will commit to being the best I can be.
• These declarations are meant to encourage you to take
control of the influences in your life. They are
suggestions as to what positive things you can speak
about your own life instead of accepting whatever has
been said about you in the past. You now have the
authority to plant the seeds of love, encouragement and
victory in your garden, thereby crowding out the weeds
of negativity that may already have taken root! Just as in
a garden, you may have to pull and pull until you get
some weeds out.
Portfolio Output No. 8: Slogan or Personal Declaration on
Being Happy
• 1. Read the essay on “Being Happy”.
• 2. Choose a phrase, sentence, or paragraph that strikes
you.
• 3. Make a slogan or personal declaration on how you can
be committed to your self-development.
• 4. Explain your thoughts and feelings about it. Include
specific ways in which you will develop yourself further
Slogan or Personal Declaration on Being Happy
BEING HAPPY
• You may have defects, being anxious and sometimes live
irritated, but do
not forget that your life is the greatest enterprise in the world.
Only you can prevent it from going into decadence. There are
many that need you, admire you and love you. I would like to
remind you that being happy is not having a sky without
storms, or roads without accidents, or work without fatigue, or
relationships without disappointments. Being happy is finding
strength in forgiveness, hope in one’s battles, security at the
stage of fear, love in disagreements.
• Being happy is not only to treasure the smile, but that you also
reflect on the sadness. It is not just commemorating the event,
but also learning lessons in failures. It is not just having joy with
the applause, but also having joy in anonymity.
• Being happy is to recognize that it is worthwhile to live, despite
all the challenges, misunderstandings and times of crises.
• Being happy is not inevitable fate, but a victory for those who
can travel towards it with your own being. Being happy is to
stop being a victim of problems but become an actor in history
itself. It is not only to cross the deserts outside of ourselves, but
still more, to be able to find an oasis in the recesses of our soul.
It is to thank God every morning for the miracle of life. …..
• Being happy is not being afraid of one's feelings. It is to
know how to talk about ourselves. It is to bear with
courage when hearing a "no". It is to have the security to
receive criticism, even if is unfair. It is to kiss the children,
pamper the parents, have poetic moments with friends,
even if they have hurt us. Being happy means allowing
the free, happy and simple child inside each of us to live;
having the maturity to say, "I was wrong"; having the
audacity to say, "forgive me". It is to have sensitivity in
expressing, "I need you"; to have the ability of saying, "I
love you." So that your life becomes a garden full of
opportunities for being happy.
• In your spring-time, may you become a lover of joy. In
your winter, may you become a friend of wisdom. And
when you go wrong along the way, you start all over
again. Thus you will be more passionate about life. And
you will find that happiness is not about having a perfect
life but about using tears to water tolerance, losses to
refine patience, failures to carve serenity, pain to lapidate
pleasure, obstacles to open the windows of intelligence.
Never give up ... Never give up on the people you love.
Never give up from being happy because life is an
incredible show. And you are a special human being!