Title: Analyze adjustments necessary to achieving independence.
Course: Individual Development (19260-18) > Section: Transitioning to Emerging Adulthood

Analysis should include the adjustments needed to establish individual values, goals, education, and income, including

- identifying physical, emotional, intellectual, and social changes of adolescence
- identifying the importance of gaining independence
- analyzing ways to develop independence across the life span
- identifying strategies that will enhance personal development
- distinguishing between behaviors that are self-forming and those that are self-destructive.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What are the characteristics of the different levels of adolescent development?
- How do current research, trends, and practices improve our growth and development across the life cycle?
- What factors will affect growth and development across the life cycle?
- What personal and social forces might limit growth and development across the life cycle?

Communication

- What can you assume about the level or nature of adolescent communication based on theories of adolescent development?
- What types of communication might enhance the family environment? Social environment? Work environment?

Leadership

- What skills might help promote growth and independence?
- What personal goals might promote independence?
- What actions might promote growth and independence?

Management

- What resources affect growth and independence?
- What actions can individuals, family, and society take to promote growth and independence?