Course Name & Paper No.2 : Adolescent Psychology

Subject: Psychology

Course Name & Paper No.2 : Adolescent Psychology

Course Objectives:

This course should help Students:

1. To aim part knowledge about the normality

2. To make student understand the nature and course of various adolescent 

conditions

3. To impart knowledge in skills needed for psychological assessment and 

different condition

4. Use to filed of adolescent Psychology

Course:

Unit-1: Introduction to Adolescent Psychology

 Introduction, Definition
 Concept of Adolescence – Hall & Gesell
 Characteristics and principles of adolescence development
 Stage of Human Development
 Subject Filed of Adolescent Psychology

Unit-2: Method of Child Psychology
Physical Development:

 Growth Spurt,
 Sexual Maturation
 Psychological effects of pubertal development-concerns about body image.
 Challenges to early and late development. 
 Changes in the adolescent brain. Sleep patterns in adolescence.
Mentally Development:
 Stage of Mental Development
 Factor of Mental Development
 Intelligence and individual difference
 Sex difference.
Emotional Development:
 Emotional Intelligence – Self Awareness, Social awareness, Self-management 

of emotions, establishing and maintaining healthy Relationships.

Social Development:
 Generation gap, Parenting styles, parent-adolescent conflict; siblings - influence 
of family size and birth order. 
 Peers – functions, peer pressure; friends – stability of friendship.

Unit : 3 Personality Development

 Meaning of Personality Development
 Needs of Personality Development
 Personality Characteristics of Adolescent.

Unit : 4 Development of Aptitude, Attitude and Belief

 Meaning of Discipline and Authority
 Meaning of Aptitude
 Attitude of Sexuality
 Nature of Aptitude
 Development of Attitude and Belief

Unit 5 : Issues, Challenges, & Problems of adolescent

 Risk Behaviours: STDs, HIV/AIDS; Teenage Pregnancy, Addiction to 
Technology
 Substance abuse; Juvenile delinquency; Violence and rape; Poverty and low 
educational attainment; Adolescent stress- external and internal stressors.
 Obesity and eating disorders; Depression and suicide. Risk factors and 
Protective factors.

Reference Book:

 Hutchinson, D. Elizabeth. (Ed) (2008), Dimensions of Human Behaviour: The 
Changing Life Course, USA, Sage Publications Inc. 
 Hurlock, Elizabeth. B. (1981). Development Psychology A Life-Span 
Approach, (Fifth Edition), Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New 
Delhi.
 Santrock, John. W. (2008). Child Development, (Eleventh Edition), Tata 
McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi.
 Elizabeth Hurlock "Developmental Psychology" M. C. Graw Hill
 Lawrce Fenk,"Developmental Psychology"
 G.W. Allport, "Personality" M. C. Graw Hill, (1989)
 Karl Garrison, "Development of Applied and Attitude Psychology"
 Development Psychology – Pre Yogendra K. Desai
 Human Development & Adolescent Psychology, Dr. R. G. Parmar, Sau. 

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