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Advanced Study Paper –II Adolescent Health, Problems and Positive Psychology
Objectives:
This course will enable the students to :
- To understand the causes, signs, and symptoms of various problems
- To acquaint with the inherent challenges and contemporary issues in adolescent development.
- Counselling in adolescent age.
- To understand the importance of positive psychology.
Challenges and Problems in Adolescence
· Stress among adolescents- Strategies used by parents to cope with adolescents problems.
· Teen suicide: statistics, common situations in which adolescents commit suicide, symptoms of depression, prevention and intervention
· Academic stress, anxiety and depression- statistics/profile of adolescents in India related to academic stress, reasons, strategies for coping
· Bullying, ragging, aggression/violence, and juvenile delinquency: statistics/profile of adolescents in India, prevention and intervention
· Substance abuse: smoking, alcohol and drugs; influence of peers; prevention and intervention
Sexuality: Sex vs. sexuality, importance of sexuality in adolescence, challenges related to sexuality
Common issues of adolescents
a. Slow learners and talented/ exceptional
b. ADHD
c. Emotional and behavioural issues.
d. Children with socially disadvantaged background and under achievers
Counselling special groups
- Suicide prevention and management.
- Drug addicts and alcoholics
- Trauma and sexual abuse counselling
- Physical, psychological, vocational and social rehabilitation of persons with disabilities and mental retardation.
- Emotional intelligence counselling
Introduction to positive psychology
a. Need for a science of human strengths and virtues
b. Deconstruction of illness ideology and inclusion of human strengths
c. Positive psychology: assumptions, goals and definitions
d. Three pillars of positive psychology.
e. A movement away from deficit-centred approaches Theories; developmental trends in prosocial behaviours; familial and extra-familial influences
- Positive emotional states and processes -Subjective well-being, Positive emotions, Positive psychology of emotional intelligence, Resilience in development
- Pro‐social behavior and wellbeing-Empathy and altruism, Psychology of forgiveness, Gratitude and science of positive psychology and Love
- Managing stress, illness and pain: causes, consequences and interventions
- Implications for well-being: psychological factors as resilience, hope, optimism, positive self; Physical factors as exercise, safety, nutrition etc.
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Health Promotion and Challenges for the Future -Health promotion through health enhancing behaviours/ life style changes , Barriers to health promotion ,Health services in adolescence, Challenges in health care , Future trends in health psychology ,Outlook for health psychologists.
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Books recommended:
Berk LE. 1993 Infants, Children and Adolescents. Allyn & Bacon.
Sebald H. 1984. Adolescence - A Social Psychological Analysis. Prentice Hall.
Seifert KL & Hoffnung RJ. 1991. Child and Adolescent Development.
Brannon, L., &Feist, J. (2000). Health Psychology.An introduction to behaviour and health
Damon, W. & Lerner R.M. (Eds.-in-Chief). Handbook of Child Psychology: Child Psychology in Practice(Volume 3); (Chapter on prosocial development (Eisenberg et al.)John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey.
Dolgin , K. G. (2010).The adolescent : Development ,Relationships and culture (13th ed.). NY: Pearson.
Garrod, A., Smulyan, L., & Powers, S. I. (2011). Adolescent protraits: Identity, relationships, (7th Edition). NY : Pearson.
Santrock, J. W. (2013). Adolescence (15th ed.). NY:McGraw Hill.
Taylor, S . (2006). Health Psychology (New York : Tata Mcgraw Hill Publishing
Carr, A. (2004). Positive Psychology: The science of happiness and human strength.UK: Routledge.
DiMatteo, M.R. and Martin, L.R.(2002). Health psychology. New Delhi: Pearson. Misra,G.(1999).Stress and Health. New Delhi: Concept.
Sarafino, E.P. (2002). Health psychology: Bio psychosocial interactions(Wiley).
