Overview
Description
Theory, research, and issues in adolescence.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate, through group discussions and in writing, the ability to evaluate healthy and unhealthy adolescent development across seven domains: biological, cognitive, social, family relationships, peer relationships, school, work, and leisure activities, and identity development.
- critically assess, through group discussions and in writing, how sociocultural contexts, including socioeconomic status, culture, family, peer groups, relationships, school, and work interact with the major domains of adolescent development (e.g., biological, cognitive, social) to influence the developmental trajectories of adolescents.
- demonstrate, in group discussions and in writing, the ability to apply research and theory on adolescent development to the practice of prevention and intervention work with youth.