Individual Development during Adolescence: A Comprehensive Analysis

This essay delves into the multifaceted changes that individuals experience during adolescence, examining emotional, social, and educational impacts. It highlights the development of learning and understanding, emphasizing the significance of emotional and social growth. The essay explores how adolescents navigate peer relationships, family dynamics, and identity formation, and how these factors influence their educational experiences. It discusses the role of support from parents and teachers in guiding adolescents through challenges and fostering positive development. The essay also examines the impact of social media and mobile phone usage on communication skills and the development of responsibility. Furthermore, it analyzes the emotional changes, decision-making skills, and the formation of individual values that shape adolescents' understanding of the world and their relationships with others. The importance of a supportive environment and the influence of peer groups on academic engagement are also discussed.

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Individual during adolescent
There are various types of changes that take place when a person grows. These changes
occur due to the situations faced by him/her. Individuals are able to do develop their learning and
understanding when they grow older. Adolescence is considered to be a big emotional and social
development for a child. There are both positive and negative impacts on a person. Some are able
to understand the changes and taken them effectively but there are few fail to do so because of
lack in support from adults (Wang and Eccles, 2012). The level of maturity grows and they are
able to taken their own decisions and decide on what is right and wrong. The way of
understanding and perceiving things also changes and these are positive when a child is getting
appropriate support.
Adolescence is determined to be a time of emotional, social and changes in relationship.
For all these type of changes, it can be stated that child is forming an independent identity and
this makes them to learn as an adult. In order to make the essay more effective, impact of
different aspects in education for adolescence will be discussed.
During the time of adolescence, the way a child interacts with peer, family and friends
changes. Further, there are also differences in teens emotional and social development, the type
of behaviour that they carry will be different (Schonert-Reichl and Lawlor, 2010). With the
unique combination of brain development, genes, and experiences with friends and family, etc.
enables to shape up their growth.
In social aspects, there are different changes that can be identified. In this context, it is
identified that young people are busy in working out with themselves and prefer to identify
individuals who understand them. They will aim at making themselves fit with the society and
try out music, new cloths, art, etc. (Social and Emotional Changes in Adolescence, 2016).
Further, they prefer to be independent and do not like others to make them perform any work
control them. In part of the education, there are students who aim at developing their skills and
try to work hard so that they can be recognized Yeager and Walton, 2011. Further, this is the
time in which child starts to develop individual set of morals and values. Thus, it develops a
concern for majority of children to focus on their studies so that they are able to grow in a
positive direction and also helpful to attain their set goals. Use of social media and mobile phone
has raised and this way the rate of communication with friends increases. These are highly
effective enough to develop various type of skills related to communication. When children
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grow, then they develop sense of responsibility both at school and at home. They share work and
support others in order to complete the work in effective manner.
In aspect of emotional changes in adolescence, it can be stated that a child becomes
strong with intense emotions and feelings and their mood also becomes unpredictable. These
types of conditions raise conflicts. It is a slow process as a child learns to control their emotions
slowly. Further, a child is able to develop his decision-making skills (Beal and Crockett, 2010).
There are different types of situations that are faced and these make them develop their learning
and understanding in effective manner. They are able to take up decisions by analysing the
conditions and deciding on the ways that can make them boosted up. Apart from this, they also
realize that actions taken have their own set of consequences. Further, individuals get close to
others and they develop strong connection. Emotionally they get connect when a person is able
to understand them. They develop trust and it gets stronger when trust broken. All these types of
situations arise when a child grows and thus it makes a person emotionally strong. In context
with education, their understanding towards studies improves gradually. However, it totally
depends on the perception and groups in which child spend time with. When a group of children
do not study, then the sense of responsibility is developed very slowly (Wiener, Weaver and
Sansom-Daly, 2015). However, there will be very few cases who understand the situation and
take appropriate steps to change the group or to get involved in studies.
Further, there are changes identified in terms of relationship in adolescence. In this
context, one of the main changes identified is that individuals spend more time with peers and
friends and less time with family. Further, it is also identified that parents and child have more
arguments. There are certain set of expectations that are developed by a child and when there is
no support is shown, then they prefer to do whatever they like. In such condition, the education
gets negatively affected in conditions when child do not prefer to study, they will get involved in
other activities. They become emotionally strong but there are situations in which they lose their
temper and thus the rate of conflicts gets raised (Li and Lerner, 2011). Further, there are some of
individuals who are focused on understanding the situations and taking appropriate steps so that
they are able to overcome them in appropriate manner. In order to support child to grow, it is
required to have appropriate support from the side of parent and teachers so that they are able to
guide and direct them through which the issues faced by them can be considered and appropriate
support can be provided.
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In accordance with the above analysis made, it can be stated that when a child grows
older, then they are able to learn different things as per the situations faced. There are both
positive and negative impacts faced. When, the group in which a person is contains individuals
who prefer to study, then all will be focused on the same path. Thus, it can be stated that the
support that is carried out by individuals need to be properly guided by their parents or family
members so that they are able to develop in effective manner.
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