Comments on Adolescent Psychology 1 After reading Adolescent Psychology, I have some insights.
The source of adolescent peer groups, peer groups contacted by education; Peer contact with family life. Teenagers' good academic performance can make their parents happy, but it has little effect on improving teenagers' status in peer groups.
In absolute terms, teenagers spend much more time together than adults.
Compared with childhood, adolescent peers play more roles in an environment without adult supervision.
In adolescence, more and more teenagers associate with peers of the opposite sex, while in the same period, the gender of peers is highly separated.
In the same period, peers are limited to smaller groups, and there will be large-scale peers in adolescence.
Reflections on Adolescent Psychology Part II LaurenceSteinberg, the author of Adolescent Psychology, is a famous American psychology professor and a member of Laura Canel's group of professors at Temple University. He devoted his whole life to the research of contemporary teenagers' related topics, including the relationship between parents and teenagers, teenagers' risk-taking and decision-making, teenagers' mental health, teenagers' brain development, part-time jobs at school, academic achievements, juvenile delinquency and justice. Steinberg has published more than 350 academic papers and many books in the field of adolescent growth and development, and made outstanding contributions to adolescent psychology.
Adolescent Psychology is the most popular book on adolescent psychology in America. Since its publication, it has been reprinted continuously and is deeply loved by readers. I watched the 10 version this time. In this book, according to the latest scientific research, Steinberg, an expert in adolescent research, comprehensively analyzes some problems that teenagers may encounter from three aspects: biological basis, social influence and psychological development, and integrates relevant theories, research methods and practical applications well, which can make readers have a deeper and more scientific understanding of adolescence.
Adolescence is an important period of physical and psychological development in a person's life, full of new potential, challenges and discoveries. At this extremely important stage of life, as a parent, I have too many doubts and helplessness about my children's growth in adolescence, especially their psychological changes, so I hope to find effective ways to help them spend their adolescence smoothly and safely.
Maybe it's because translation is not the same as foreign expression habits, and it's hard to read, which makes me miserable. If it weren't for the children, I would have been abused.
From last Saturday to today, I read 70 pages, and comprehensively expounded the physiological changes of adolescent children, as well as the psychological sensitivity, vulnerability and other changes brought about by them, as well as the changes in roles and identities. How long is adolescence? There is a general consensus that the transition period from childhood to adulthood is much longer than that of physiological adolescence in a narrow sense. This is because the development of the times has put forward higher requirements for teenagers' studies (university, master's degree, doctor's degree), and the improvement of economic level has also led parents not to need their children to get married prematurely, and the labor force needed in the industrial age has decreased. Puberty in a broad sense includes adolescence in a narrow sense and dominant period. In a narrow sense, the dominant period refers to the period from the end of adolescence to adulthood. The physiological changes in adolescence lead to the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics, accompanied by changes in the identity, psychology and social role of secondary sexual characteristics.
The first time I came into contact with books on psychology, I felt fresh and interesting. My eldest son 15 years old. Because I don't understand adolescence, even with the birth of a second child, I have let him grow up according to physiological laws in recent years, neither knowing my son's heart nor caring about his physical changes, and I am at a loss about his adolescent changes. I am deeply ashamed of this. After reading this book, I corrected my prejudice against adolescence, and I have some simple feelings to share as follows:
First, there is nothing trivial in adolescence. Great changes will take place in adolescence, such as women's menstruation. Faced with these, most teenagers will have subtle psychological changes, or panic, or dull, coupled with the social recognition of the role of teenagers, will cause certain psychological pressure on teenagers. Physical changes in adolescence can also lead to psychological changes, such as sensitivity, worry, and caring about other people's eyes. Poor companionship in this period will lead to mental illness. It can be seen that there are no trivial things in adolescence, because these things are important events that determine physical and mental health in the second half of life.
Second, adolescence is a period of surprise. At the age of ten, the brain is mature and close to adults, so it is at its peak in cognitive ability and thinking ability, and there is no worry about adult work and family affairs. It is the golden age of life and the best time to study. Adolescence is also the fastest period of physical growth, with an annual growth of 10 cm. This situation will last until the end of adolescence to stop the development of height. It can be seen that there are surprises everywhere in adolescence.
Adolescence is a dangerous period. With the changes of teenagers, teenagers' sense of self-independence, self-esteem and emotion are enhanced, and their curiosity and adventurous spirit are also enhanced. However, the three views and attitudes of teenagers have not been fully established, and the defense system against the external environment has not been fully established, such as poor contact between the environment and friends, such as drug abuse and gambling, which are very attractive to teenagers. Because of the above factors, this period has become a potential period of high crime.
For children's adolescence, what parents can do is to understand and accompany them and wait for the flowers to bloom.
As an academic student who has studied psychology systematically for 6 years and is oriented to the development of educational psychology, I have a trick when choosing professional books: if this book is the first edition of "Greater than or equal to 2", there should be no big mistakes in choosing. So when I saw the book "1 1 edition", I could think of its magnificent image in my mind at that time.
I got a hot and fresh book, and after I opened it, I felt very good with exquisite binding and high-grade textured paper, plus the most important things: rich content and connotation, update and sharing of the latest research results, lively language, open and comprehensive perspective and so on. All this makes me want to say: if you recommend a book as an introduction to adolescent psychology or developmental psychology, it is definitely your first choice ~!
Rousseau said: "Youth is a dangerous period of storms." At this time, the emotional characteristics of teenagers are strong, emotional and obviously polarized. Or excited, inspired, very enthusiastic; Or get angry, feel discouraged and become depressed. In addition, teenagers' emotions are obviously unstable and have the characteristics of fluctuation. They often go from one extreme to the other. In the smooth situation, it is particularly cheerful and full of all kinds of fantasies, and its strength doubles in life, study and work; However, when they encounter setbacks, they will shake their beliefs and feel depressed and discouraged. This kind of emotional instability is related to the physiological and psychological characteristics of teenagers, as well as lack of experience. Therefore, teenagers are faced with various psychological problems in the process of growth and development, mainly including: crisis of self-awareness, crisis of social adaptation, crisis of emotional development, crisis of personality development and so on. Adolescent psychology mainly studies how to help them survive these crises and grow up smoothly.
Before reading the fifth chapter, the books on developmental psychology or adolescent psychology are basically around the course of individual psychological development, focusing on the study of individual longitudinal time axis, such as the research done by Piaget and Freud. What makes my eyes shine is that the book includes a large number of cross-cultural horizontal comparative studies in addition to the longitudinal study of individual development.
As we know, the United States is a multi-ethnic immigrant country with various sub-cultural circles. Chapter 13 of this book explains the influence of social culture on teenagers in detail. For example, the growth of teenagers in families with different skin colors and economic status, and the influence of new cultural media such as the Internet on the growth of teenagers. For example, the "tiger mother" that should have great repercussions in American society is actually the difference in parenting styles between European and American families and Asian families in different cultures, and this cultural particularity will also affect the growth and maturity of teenagers. On the other hand, with the popularity of the Internet, the cultural differences among different nationalities and classes are gradually converging. I believe that when the book is published in 12 or 13, it may do more research on the psychological development of "e generation" or "net generation" teenagers.
The concept of "culture" is integrated into every chapter of this book except a single chapter. For example, in the first chapter, the viewpoint of "globalization" was put forward from the beginning; The fourth chapter also makes a cross-cultural comparison of the research on cognitive development. For example, China Taiwan Province Province found that the concept of "intelligence" emphasizes the ability to get along with others, that is, "being a man" is considered as the performance of high intelligence; The fifth chapter mentions ethnic identity, which may be the reason why we always mistake Locke for "one of our own". Chapter VI Chapter VII, talking about sex and gender, also compares the differences in the socialization process of teenagers under different cultures; In the following chapters, the influence of culture on the growth of teenagers is discussed in the fields of family, school, peer work and occupation.
As a social psychologist, culture is one of my key research fields, so I am particularly happy to find that I have always wanted to know why people's knowledge, feelings and meanings are so different in different cultures. This book tells me many answers, that is, culture plays an important role in the psychological development of teenagers.
I highly recommend John W. Psychology of Adolescence, written by Sandlock and translated by Mr. Comey, is worthy of being treasured by psychologists.
After reading the sixth article of Adolescent Psychology, I ended my work as a middle school psychological teacher for a semester, and I was deeply touched. In this complete middle school, I saw junior high school, the pressure of children's study, the rebellion of adolescence and my own confusion. In the high school with grazing education as the main theme, I saw the children's unconstrained thoughts, their longing for the future, and their entanglement with sex and love ... I saw this book before school started and felt it was very necessary.
This book allows me to answer some students' messages more calmly:
1. Why are you getting more and more lonely?
2. Why don't people I like like like me?
My parents only love my younger brother at home, not my younger sister, and let me do a lot of housework. I am so sad ...
4. I feel embarrassed to meet the boy/girl I like, but I don't know how to strike up a conversation with him/her.
After entering the second year of senior high school, I finally found it was time to study hard. But there are so many lessons left that I'm going crazy. Can you give up? I can't. But what should I do?
I also want to recommend this book to some crazy class teachers. They can see what little-known ideas are behind students' cunning or rebellion:
1. There is a JP girl in our class. After class, she always pretends to be familiar with the teacher and rubs around in the office without listening. What kind of psychology is this?
2. Children nowadays are really cute! A few words of criticism will make you burst into tears. When he cried, I thought, forget it. Let him go back and talk to him next time. As a result, he seems to know my penis, and when I criticize him, he cries even more. The other teachers in the office think I did something to him. Teachers are really difficult to do.
The new head teacher is most afraid of "Xiong Haizi" in the class. I am often complained by teachers in other subjects, and I have talked to him several times without success. Thinking about going home, the student acted as if he had killed me and wouldn't let me go, as if there was something hidden behind him.
Although we used to be children and students. But when I grow up to be a teacher, I seem to forget how we climbed on this bumpy road of youth and how we want to be treated by our parents and teachers. The book "Juvenile Psychology" can let us temporarily retreat to the rainy season of flower season, let us bend down and listen to the sound of children blooming.
Some thoughts on teenagers' psychology after reading 7. We used to have headaches with trigonometric functions, quadratic equations, ellipses and hyperbolas. Piaget thinks this is a change from concrete operation to formal operation. We once loved someone and longed for love. Robert Jeffrey Sternberg thought it was romantic love, only intimacy and passion, no commitment; We have many dreams, and we don't know where to go when we graduate. Eriksson thinks this is an identity crisis, trying to experience different roles. It turns out that you are not the only one who suffers all those sadness, pain and happiness for one reason. Looking at adolescence from an academic point of view, it is a pleasure to have more rational understanding!
Human development mainly includes three aspects: physiology, cognition and social emotion. Physiology is the basis of psychology; Cognition is the processing of information, including perception, memory, language, thinking and intelligence; Social emotions include emotions, personalities and social relations. After introducing the classic development theory, the first part of this book expounds the physiological basis of adolescent development, the second part introduces the development of cognition and social emotions, the third part introduces the environment that affects adolescent development, and the fourth part introduces the problems of adolescent development. The logic is quite clear. A person's life is mainly divided into fetus, infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. This book is only aimed at teenagers, covering all aspects, with rich examples and easy translation, which is very rare. Due to cultural differences, the data on sex, school education and adolescence cited in this book are likely to be far from those in China, which requires our careful consideration.
I have to say that people's post and telecommunications publishing house and new curve company introduced western classic textbooks to set the record straight, which is really the conscience of the industry!