* Empower young people to take action on issues that affect them and to make changes in their own lives. * Enable them to have experiences and opportunities that they wouldn’t normally have. * Develop positive, supportive and nurturing relationships with young people. * Challenge opinions, lifestyles and preconceptions. * Guide them in the process of becoming young adults.
Social Competence: Childhood to Adolescence Social competence is defined as “the ability to achieve personal goals in social interaction while simultaneously maintaining positive relationships with others over time and across situations” (Rubin & Rose-Krasnor, 1992). It does not typically emerge fully until a later age meaning immaturity is often displayed by young children, but they also have the capability to display maturity. Maturity or immaturity can be observed through specific characteristics such as emotional regulation, perspective taking, distributive justice, displaying of empathy, communicating with peers, social problem solving, prosocial behavior, and gender-role stereotyping from an early age and serve as indicators for adolescent social competence. Summary Emotional Regulation One characteristic of a socially competent adolescent is the capability for emotional regulation. Emotional regulation is when a person utilizes strategies “to adjust the intensity or duration of [their] emotional reactions to a comfortable level so [they] can accomplish goals” (Berk, 2009, p. 407).
Unit 4222-324 - Support individuals with specific communication needs (HSC 3029) Outcome 1 - understand specific communication needs and factors affecting them. 1. Explain the importance of meeting an individual's communication needs. Individuals who have communication problems need support to enable them to express themselves effectively. It is therefore important for the carers to be aware of the individuals preferred method of communication and also to support the individual to use their preferred method.
Early stages of adolescence tend to create a negative, yet, confused attitude for the individual. The early years of adolescence is where the individual is no longer a young child and needs to transition into a teenager. The individual in transition is changing from a child and becoming a teenager. Teenagers are adapting to doing different things for fun and often associate with different teenagers. During this transition, the teen will become bored with the old games of a child and start to experiment with different things.
Diverse groups of individuals can work well together, forming a strong team and how communication amongst professionals when forming a multi-disciplinary team ensures that the best care and development is available for the children involved. The Common Assessment Framework (CAF) explains how professionals working together should share a common goal for children and their families enabling access to appropriate facilities and services. Self awareness and self concept assures we are informed and sensitive about our intra-personal skills and inter-personal skills enabling interaction with others making it possible as a practitioner to perceive and recognise the needs of others, potentially making a difference to their life (Oliver and Pitt, 2011). Self-awareness requires us to take a critical look at ourselves and the organisation we belong too, therefore recognising our own strengths and weaknesses, enabling us to learn from others while developing and improving standards of positive relationships by using empathy, inter-personal and intra-personal skills. In early years settings it is likely there will be a range of experiences and qualifications as well as diversity amongst colleagues ensuring it is a strong team rather than leading to critism behind closed doors.
We need to check what we are saying and how we say things in moments of excitement or stress, so that the children understand our expectations and the boundaries of what is acceptable. Therefore it is important for us as adults and parents to demonstrate and model positive and effective communication skills in our dealings with others. 1.2. For us to communicate effectively, we need to be comfortable in one another’s company. This is called relationship building.
They consider future possibilities, search for answers, deal with problems and draw conclusions about events they have not experience firsthand. They now have the ability to make decisions based on knowledge. They develop mature relationship with friends and family and their independence increase. | Children reach adulthood. At this stage they may lack experience and confidence depending on the individual.
Coming of Age Coming of Age Tiffany Baker Psychology 101 Teacher: Jennifer Fitch By Tiffany Baker Psychology 101 Teacher: Jennifer Fitch By Abstract Coming of Age can be tough especially entering the adult world! Sometimes growing up you don’t realize how easy you have it as a kid. As you grow up you go through obstacles that “mold” and “shape” you into the person you become. I can’t say that I would want to be a kid again but there are somethings I would like to change about my past. Things happen in your life for a reason, some good and some bad.
It is also important to actively acknowledge the person’s strengths, passions and aspirations, and actively involve the family and friends, if the person wishes. Person-centred values includes: individuality; rights; choice; privacy; independence; dignity; respect; partnership; autocracy 2. Why is it important for social workers to work in a way that promotes person centred values? It is important to acknowledge the needs and wishes of your service users, and ensure that these underpin the planning and delivery of care. Promoting continuity of care that values the service users unique past, present and future individuality and recognizing and respecting the person’s role and contribution to family and wider society.
Young adults are searching for their identity and getting to form them with others of the same and opposite sex. They are learning what true commitment is, friendship and otherwise. Young adults are learning how to sacrifice and compromise for the sake of their family and friends. They are forming true bonds that are meant to last throughout their lifetime, if they can be so fortunate. The need for intimacy, a close connection to someone is vital for development in the