Adolescents and Their Teenage Brains

Moshman, David

doi:10.1159/000330300

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“…Some researchers claim that adolescent brain development strengthens young people's ability to weigh their options, particularly in low pressure situations [Albert & Steinberg, 2011;Steinberg, 2013]. However, contextual influences may be just as important in understanding young people's ethical development [Moshman, 2011]. The timing of this skill advancement varies due to multiple influences including biology, culture, and individual experience; and all people demonstrate different skill levels in different contexts and under different emotional conditions [Fischer & Bidell, 2006;Moshman, 2011].…”

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“…However, contextual influences may be just as important in understanding young people's ethical development [Moshman, 2011]. The timing of this skill advancement varies due to multiple influences including biology, culture, and individual experience; and all people demonstrate different skill levels in different contexts and under different emotional conditions [Fischer & Bidell, 2006;Moshman, 2011]. For example, young people who experience subordinate positions within social hierarchies, such as girls, gender and sexual minority youth, youth of color, and youth in lower socioeconomic status families, may be more likely to emphasize autonomy, human rights, and an ethic of care in their moral reflections and actions [Helwig, 2006;Smetana, 2006].…”

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What Does Healthy Sex Look Like among Youth? Towards a Skills-Based Model for Promoting Adolescent Sexuality Development

Arbeit¹

2014

Human Development

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Sexuality is central in human life, perhaps especially in adolescence when multiple dimensions of change constitute physical, psychological, and social challenges and opportunities for the developing young person. Understanding this constellation of challenges and opportunities and formulating constructive, supportive interventions would be greatly facilitated by a skills-based model for promoting sexuality development in adolescence. Moving beyond the deficit, sex-negative approach, I propose a model that identifies three key elements of skillful adolescent sexuality development: sexual selfhood, sexual negotiation, and sexual empowerment. I link these components through the processes of personal agency, interpersonal intimacy, and social advocacy. I consider limitations of the model as well as the next steps for applying this theoretical framework to future empirical studies that seek to describe, explain, and optimize sexuality development throughout the adolescent years.

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confidence: 99%

What Does Healthy Sex Look Like among Youth? Towards a Skills-Based Model for Promoting Adolescent Sexuality Development

Arbeit¹

2014

Human Development

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Adolescence

Gibbons¹

2013

The Encyclopedia of Cross‐Cultural Psychology

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A wealth of studies has revealed cross‐cultural differences and similarities in the life stage of adolescence, defined by the World Health Organization as the second decade of life. Recent research has focused on brain growth and plasticity during adolescence, identity development, adolescents' relationships with families and peers, gender differences in development during adolescence, adolescents' engagement in school, work, and civic activities, psychological and physical health during adolescence, adolescents' wellbeing and positive development, adolescents' use of the media, and adolescents in difficult circumstances.

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