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Adolescent Development - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Makes the brain function more efficiently and restricts its capacity for change
  - - - Risk taking is developed rapidly
  - - - Impulsive and extreme behavior
- - - - Changes based on life experiences
      - Secure sense of self
      - Individual developed a defined personality within a social reality
      - Starts in adolescence
      - Central to adolescents
      - Closely linked to self-esteem, self-awareness, and self-efficacy
    - - Losing security of the old
      - Newness not in place; can be frightening
      - Avoid facing the situation
      - Manage anxieties that are invoked
      - Overidentify to the point of complete loss of identity
  - - - Identity foreclosure
        
        Acceptance of others' values instead of self-determined goals
        
        Does not question or rebel
        
        Failing to tackle adolescents
        
        Constricted personalities
        
        Immature in social behavior styles
        
        Frozen in developmental progress
        
        Rigid in overcompliance
        
        Unadaptive
      - Identity Achievement
        
        Resolved crises and made a firm commitment to plans based on their own thinking
        
        In Ericksons terms, they have successfully negotiated the challenge for this stage
      - Identity diffusion
        
        Avoidance of commitment
        
        Indecisive about major life issues
        
        Escape into diversionary activities to avoid anxiety
        
        Tense and insecure when dealing with others
      - Moratorium
        
        Intense identity crisis
        
        Active attention to major decisions and exploration possibilities for the future
        
        No firm commitment to life goals