Teen Outreach Program: Cities In School

Erikson theorizes that in such a period, adolescents have certain tasks, one of which is identifying who they are. An individual successfully completes the task by staying true to his or her self, whereas when a person fails that stage, it leads to role confusion; consequently creating a weak sense of self. (Block 2011). The stage also entails a variety of personal challenges and limitations faced as well as a series of needs to be met, including: attention, guidance, independence, stability, and acceptance, among other needs. Meeting an adolescent’s needs is fundamental to their healthy development and personal growth. Nevertheless, adolescence remains as puzzling of a period in time for both the teens experiencing it, as well as for the individuals surrounding them, watching them as they navigate through the trials that adolescence brings them.

Erikson's fifth stage of development is identity vs. role confusion, which occurs during adolescence, from about 12-18 years old. It’s during this stage that children tend to gain self-esteem and a sense of identity. Also, dramatic physical changes and develop interests and abilities that can last a lifetime (McCoy, 2015). Some children, at this stage, tend to struggle with social interactions and to fit in with their peers. A sense of morality and right from wrong is realized, and a more mature line of thinking starts to take

It outlines the struggle an individual faces in finding stability between developing a sense of forming a unique identity while still being accepted and “fitting in” with society. Erikson believed that when teenagers adequately navigated their way through this crisis, they would transpire into having a clear understanding of their individual identity and easily share this new ‘self’ with others. However, if an individual is unable to navigate their way through this crisis period, they may be uncertain of who they are which can result in a lack of understanding, leading to disconnection from society and the people around them. If youth become stuck at this stage they will be unable to become emotionally mature adults, according to Erikson’s theory. This period of an individual’s life allows them to investigate possibilities which will lead them to discovering their own identity based upon the result of their explorations.

Growing up in Bronx, NY I felt like was constantly fighting an uphill battle. It?s very common for teenagers to drop out of school for many different reasons. Young woman either got pregnant at a very young age or young men dropped out because they felt like money was more important to them, so they sold drugs and joined gangs. It was very hard to see my friends struggle with peer pressure and fail to think about their long term goals. I always told myself that I would never fall into the cycle because I knew I couldn?t. I knew firsthand what it was like to live with struggles and couldn?t bear to go through that as an adult. It was not until an Air Force recruiter came to my school that I made the decision to enlist in the armed forces. I had no idea all the obstacles I would need to get pass in order to just get accepted.

As of Fall 2012, I decided to withdraw completely from college because I reasoned that if I had no motivation to be in college, there is genuinely no point in taking courses. It is in my character that I should either put all of my effort into something or I shouldn’t.

Why would you drop out of school before 18. Just look at it, you will not have as many friends as you had when you were in school, because there at school when you are at home. Just think on how spred apart you will be from people because you might want to hand out with your friends but you can’t because they have homework they have to do because

With all the incidents happening here in America involving officers making them seem like the bad guys I decided to come up with the non-profit organization of P.O.L.I.C.E to show they are really here for us and our protection. There is no positive outlook on police and nobody thinks of building relationships with them especially today’s youth. In many communities in America our inner city youth does not trust and is more scared of officers than they are more dependant on them. Which has created many issues and even riots in some cities. P.O.L.I.C.E is a program done by police officers in communities that are struggling with troubled youth to help and provide guidance for them and also help build relationships in the community back up again.

As the child grows into their adolescence, a stage in which self-identification and social standing become

However, adolescence brings a plethora of challenges, such as eating disorders, substance abuse, sexuality, and crime (Rathus, p.324). Known as Sturm und Drang, or “storm and stress”, adolescence is the period in which we question who we are and search for our identity (Rathus, p. 312). For many adolescents, the struggle for identity is a lifelong process that some never will figure out. Searching for their identity, adolescents will likely experiment with different values, beliefs, and relationships, due to the uncertainty of what they want and what they stand for (Rathus, p. 316). For myself, I never experienced the earlier mentioned challenges, such as eating disorders or substance abuse, but I still experienced an identity crisis and the every day struggles of figuring out who I was. While I still am in the process of completely finding my true self, I feel like I have a great sense of self and know myself better than most people my age. When conflicts arise in my life, I try to face them and understand what I need to do to make the situation better. For many teenagers, facing problems is a difficult thing to do, and many will fall into a certain reaction pattern, known as an identity status (Rathus, p.316). The identity status I believe I am currently in is called identity achievement, which means you have coped with various problems and know what you want

Comparatively to my early adolescence years, however, I had to evolve from an “Identity Foreclosure” status to make it to this level of certainty. Growing up in a family of devout Christians pushed me into the foreclosure label, as I fit into the “self-satisfied but approval seeking” description. Going to church in preschool age into middle childhood was more of a ritual than a conscious decision since my mother was (and still is) a very involved member and employee, but as time went on and into early adolescence I started to find myself thinking that I didn’t have interest in church-going anymore. Taking the age shift into consideration, I think this change of heart was directly related to my entering into the identity vs identity confusion stage of Erikson’s theory along with my growing sense of autonomy. Once middle school hit, so did the idea that I didn’t fit into my church group like the other kids did, which prompted me to have role confusion and identity crisis. Faith was starting to mean something completely different to me than what it meant to my family and church peers, and I ultimately opted to seek autonomy and follow a path that was not pre-decided for me. Fast forward to my freshman year of college, I took a dialogue class that required me to research various religions and ended up finding my religious identity. Now, I can very confidently stand with this

Occurring between thirteen and nineteen years of age, this stage answers the major questions, “Who am I?”, “What is my role?”. The ego virtue to be gained here is fidelity - more specifically, the ability to sustain loyalties and make commitments to yourself and others. Erikson claims, “we have almost an instinct for fidelity - meaning that when you reach a certain age you can and must learn to be faithful to some ideological view.” (Evans, 1967). Without the development of a capacity for fidelity the individual will have a weak ego or will have to look elsewhere for something to be faithful to. Focusing more on the idea of identity, Erikson feels that our sense of identity is composed of both positive and negative elements. There are

I received my education in a public school in Nevada, which has one of the highest dropout rates in the country, and all throughout my senior year I witnessed countless numbers of my peers’ willingly leaving high school to “Pursue their lives.” At the beginning of the year, everyone was gun hoe about finishing school but as the year progressed students were not attending school or not doing assignments thus they were automatically failing classes they needed by default (missing class to often is grounds for automatic failure) or for receiving a failing grade. It’s such a confusing set of emotions to experience when you hear someone has dropped out: it is a combination of pity, sorrow, helplessness and at the same time relief. Everyone wants to graduate from high school at one point in

I enjoy going to school, so it is very hard for me to wrap my head around the idea of anyone wanting to drop out of high school. I just don’t

Some students dropout of high school by the time they turn eighteen. They often think they’re making the right choice. From experience, dropping out of high school is not the best idea. This happens because either they have poor academic performance, their parents don’t encourage them, and they have work/economic needs.

The project had done grew out of a very large research group which was examined on basically on how high an achieving urban youth that talks about barriers for school success. This article is basically talking about a group that they have and that they did a large research on it and was examined on the achievement of the urban youth so basically they are talking about urban schools its aiming towards urban schools. They are saying that sports came together as a hard force, that promotes success for strategies and speaking on the obstacles that were more likely experienced by high school students that are in public schools or urban schools they are talking about how playing sports throughout the high school year and being academically good with your schoolwork if you are good with your work in school you should do good in school academically to sum up the first page it gives a critique of information about cares and cultural things.