Late Adolescent Transition

Abdallah. Ayda Critical Reflection Essay Introduction Within the context of nursing there has been a significant change in nursing in the last two decades, where nursing and medical knowledge has led to changes where patients can no longer stay in hospital and reduction in hospital beds. Professionals who are employed in the healthcare industry are dealing with acutely ill patients who are in more need of care (usher et al 2009). As professionals we must discover the nature that is offered to us by responding and using reflective thoughts to enhance the important aspects in society (Lauder et al 2004). And qualified nurses, acknowledge and understanding is essential for their practice to remain current, continuous improvement in reflecting

There are many issues that cause life stress to children and their families e.g. bereavement, separation /divorce, long-term illnesses. This report will employ a holistic approach, incorporating life span development, and will focus on transition within early year’s education. It will assist practitioners in supporting children and their families and will focus on the effect it has on their lives.

The transition from elementary school to middle school can be a scary or inviting time. It is a defining moment in education when we move from the environment of elementary school to the new and different environment of middle school. A large part of this transition is the difference in how the school day is structured and taught, which in the end plays a key role in our learning. For our learner, adjusting to middle school has brought some difficulties. These difficulties include being disorganized, having poor time management, forgetfulness, not understanding his math class, and some self-confidence issues from not understanding math.

Another reason children might be expressing defiance could be in result of the transition to the middle school. Middle schools are typically much bigger than their elementary schools. The transition to a new or a bigger school can be difficult for children as well. "When adolescents transition to middle school, they tackle a series of new social and educational demands that place some of them at a greater risk for the development of behavioral problems" (Wang & Dishion, 2012). This is a time in their educational careers where they typically start to have more teachers than they previously did in elementary school. There is less of a personal connection with their teachers and there is now a even greater emphasis on social groups. Schools

Transitional age youth are at a high risk for substance use and the least likely to obtain help. They may experience social pressure to experiment with substances from their peers at school or community. Others begin their dependency with substances to address and cope with their complex traumas and have a co-occurring mental disorder. A high amount of TAY homeless population are likely to have a substance disorder. The substance problem often leads TAY to become homeless. As their CSW, I would advocate for behavioral therapy to promote better coping skills; harm reduction therapies have shown success in reducing dependency. Increase in stable social supports are required to assist in recovery and searching for mentors and role models that

Transitions are changes that take part of our lives and are out of our control. Transitions are essential part of every person’s life but can be harder to adjust in early years. Although in early years’ transitions are supported by family, friends and practitioners/carers. Children’s early experiences of transitions can have a big effect on how they handle transitions in adult life.

This report is a lifespan assessment of an adolescent who is transitioning into a young adult. AO is a patient who is 19 years of age and was assessed by an Alverno College student nurse who uses the Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns as a guide in gathering subjective information. Since the patient can fall in one or both age groups of adolescence and young adult hood, information for both patterns have been included. Once data is collected, a diagnoses can be determined in any areas of concern.

It’s a natural phase in the evolution of your role as a parent. While your relationship with your teen will change, that doesn’t mean it becomes any less significant. In fact, your teen may need the security of your love and support more than ever now. The way you communicate with your adolescent and structure your family life can have a major impact on how your teen functions at home which can influence how your teen functions in other situations. The time and energy you devote to your other children, your significant other, and yourself can help keep the teen’s issues in perspective, a good thing for all of you. And the way you address school issues and advocate for your teenager’s educational needs can have a decisive impact on his or her success in school.

Modern day parenting is far from easy, today’s parents face many obstacles and sometimes can be way too hard on the child. Parents work to protect the children and help them succeed in life whether that is at work or at school. The endless worrisome thoughts about one’s child can cause the parents to crack down on the child which ultimately pushes them away. Teenagers are known to be distant and “stuck in a different world” most of the time due to hormone changes, and outside influences such as friends. Parents struggle to hold a relationship with teenage children because the teen tends to want to be alone more and sees the parent as “over protective”.

As would be expected from recent research on brain development (Spear, 2000), the use of particular cognitive strategies such as strategizing, decision-making, planning, and ref lection does not seem to be widespread until late adolescence or even early adulthood. In fact, the pubertal transition marks a time of less extensive use of problem-solving than in late childhood. This time-limited decline in problem-solving may correspond to a particular time of heightened stress reactivity that limits a young person‘s capacity to direct attention to problem- solving coping strategies. At the same time, increases in distraction, rumination, aggression, and avoidance are apparent.

Studies show adolescents age ranges from 12-19; transitioning from middle age and before adulthood (psychologytoday.com) The transitional period difficult for some. For instance, independence and self-identity, schoolwork, sexuality, drugs, alcohol, and social life. During adolescence years, the brain hasn't developed fully. Different hormones produced and the body begins to changed.

The adolescent years and emerging adulthood have completely different phases. The assignment was to ask two different people of two different ages an allotment of questions. I chose to ask my sister, Nicolle, who is fifteen years of age and in the category of teenager, and asked my boyfriend, Collin, who is twenty-one years of age and an emerging adult. Nicolle is a junior in high school, while Collin is a returned missionary attending Brigham Young University. Each of them has lived similar, yet quite different lives.

Throughout the Human Behavior and the Social Environment course, we have encompassed the many stages of the life cycle process. Now that I am twenty two years old, I found the early adulthood stage to be the most influential, and the most sensible one to relate to given the point that I am at in my life. More importantly, I decided to research and apply this life cycle stage to a variety of milestones, experienced by my interviewee, Chelsie. Living just houses apart, being raised by single fathers, Chelsie and I found that we had many things in common. We have remained friends since we were children, and have only grown to be closer into our early adulthood years.

Puberty in teenager’s early puberty stages can be effected by hormonal changes and imbalances. Studies in high-risk exposal areas of the world potential effects of related amounts of endocrine disruptors at particular times of their developmental statuses can affect the timing of puberty. Endocrine disrupters can be prevented during adolescent time frames by the parents purchasing products of organic processes and keeping away from processed foods, some household chemicals, pesticides, and plastics (Weiner, Lerner, and Easterbrooks, 2012). Low dose exposures have been shown affect the hormonal roles in the body and, especially, in the endocrine system for women, which can expose their uterus to estrogens that can cause breast cancer years later (Vandenberg, 2014). Parents can read into the listings of the endocrine disruptors and effects with the NIH and CDC websites.

For my adolescence, as she is in high school now, she is considered as an on time teen hitting puberty. Certain things in life she still don’t understand but is learning as time goes by. For sexual behavior, her mother is so strict, she dear not to do anything at all, not even kissing, not that we know of. No one knows much about what goes on in her head. Her family tells her all the time that she can be open to them if anything is on her mind. She isn’t on any social networks and says he doesn’t want to be. For the emerging adult, she has already been married before she was twenty-one years old and had a baby at the age twenty-two. The emerging adult does eat out more than cooking. She actually has more of a lazy side to her and her husband does the cooking and cleaning. This was her behavior before she had a child. Now that she had a child, she has taken more of cleaning and cooking for her husband. She also has two jobs, dealing with her six-month-old child at the same time. The twenty-two-year-old goes into tails about how it is very stressful to deal with the jobs and the baby, and that’s not even including trying to keep her husband happy. Far as friendships go, she only has her mother, her sister, and me, Abriell, who she also calls her sister. I am also the babies’ Godmother. The emerging adult keeps her circle very