Week 7 Discussion 2

  

Please no plagiarism and make sure you are able to access all resource on your own before you bid. One of the references must come from Broderick and Blewitt (2015). I need this completed by 01/11/18 at 6pm. I have attached the transcript from the required video.

Discussion 2: The Impact of Social

Media

and Technology

Twenty-first century middle school students are intellectually and socially different from any generation that has come before them. The advent of texting, social networking, and social media, and the ease at which they can navigate the Internet has connected these learners to their friends and mass media 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. While there is no doubt that social media has inadvertently caused many adolescents to become computer savvy and technologically adept, how might it strengthen or weaken the bonds of adolescent friendships? When parents and adolescents are “friends” online, does it help parents to get a better sense of who their adolescents are, or does it cause bickering and opportunities for further rebellion? How might social media confirm or refute gender stereotypes? How might it serve as a channel for bullying?

For this Discussion, review this week’s media, “Perspectives: The Adolescent World.” Then, consider the overall impacts that social media and technology have on the development and decision making of adolescents.

Post by Day 4 an explanation of the potential impacts social media and technology may have on adolescent development. Include developmental, environmental, and social influences. Explain two ways in which these influences may impact decision making in adolescents. Justify your response with references to this week’s Learning Resources and the current literature. Be specific.

Readings

· Broderick, P. C., & Blewitt, P. (2015). The life span: Human development for helping professionals (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

o Chapter 9, “Physical, Cognitive, and Identity Development in

Adolescence

” (review pp. 324-367)

o Chapter 10, “The Social World of Adolescence” (pp. 368-407)

· Bessant, J. (2008). Hard wired for risk: Neurological science, ‘the adolescent brain’ and developmental theory. Journal of Youth Studies, 11(3), 347–360.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

· Guilamo-Ramos, V., Jaccard, J., Dittus, P., & Bouris, A. M. (2006). Parental expertise, trustworthiness, and accessibility: Parent-adolescent communication and adolescent risk behavior. Journal of Marriage and Family, 68(5), 1229–1246.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

· Jaccard, J., Blanton, H., & Dodge, T. (2005). Peer influences on risk behavior: An analysis of the effects of a close friend. Developmental Psychology, 41(1), 135–147.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

· Kuss, D. J., & Griffiths, M. D. (2011).Excessive online social networking: Can adolescents become addicted to Facebook? Education and Health, 29(4), 68–71.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

· Reich, S. M., Subrahmanyam, K., & Espinoza, G. (2012). Friending, IMing, and hanging out face-to-face: Overlap in adolescents’ online and offline socialnetworks. Developmental Psychology, 48(2), 356–368.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

· Strasburger, V. (2010). Children, adolescents, and the media: Seven key issues. Pediatric Annals, 39(9), 556–564.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

· Sullivan, C. J., Childs, K. K., & O’Connell, D. (2010). Adolescent risk behavior subgroups: An empirical assessment. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39(5), 541–562.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Media

· Laureate Education (Producer). (2013a). Adolescence [Video file]. Retrieved from CDN Files Database. (COUN 6215/COUN 8215/HUMN 8215)
 

In this media piece, you will continue your examination of the client family assigned to you by your Instructor. This week, you will focus on the adolescent, aged 11–18.
 

Note: Please click on the following link for the transcript:

Transcript (PDF)

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· Laureate Education (Producer). (2013i). Perspectives: The adolescent world [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu
 

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 3 minutes.
 

This week’s presenter speaks to the challenges in working with adolescent clients. Key lifespan concepts such as risk-taking, gender differences, and parental involvement are discussed.

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“Perspectives: The Adolescent World”
Program Transcript

STEPHANIE SCOTT: I think there’s a couple of things that are really, really
challenging in working with adolescents. And in my clinical experience, probably
the most difficult thing is gaining their trust so that you can have a functional and
effective working relationship with them, because most of them don’t come to
counseling by choice. They usually are dragged there by one parent or the other,
or both, and they do not want to be there, and they don’t generally like adults. So
the first most challenging consideration is being able to really, really connect with
that teenager.

I think the second biggest challenge is being able to, once you have a good
relationship established with that client, is being able to also work with the family
system. Because I tell my clients from day one, my number one goals work
myself out of a job, so I need to help you become functional in problem solving
and develop good coping skills and be happy. But this is a minor, and so you
also have to work with the parents on the same kinds of goals and help them
understand how to better support their teenager, and that can probably honestly
get trickier than working with the teenager alone.

Some of the ways that I’m able to overcome these challenges is just to be with
the client, and I go into the session, and I just connect and I spend that time to
get to know them. And I say this because they have told me this themselves, is
that they do feel like I respect them, and I care about them, and I’m not another
adult who’s going to judge them. And that’s really, really important to working with
teenagers.

One of the most important things to remember about adolescents is that a key
developmental task is this idea of identity development and what’s Erickson
called, fidelity. But what is important to understand about that is this sense of
identity achievement. There’s more development of identity that occurs in
adolescence then probably as far as personality goes, probably any other time
period.

And being successful through adolescence is an important foundation to being
successful in young adulthood, because having a strong sense of self, having
confidence, competence, it comes from early adolescence, transition from late
childhood, those traits are so important as young people move into that phase of
life, that young adulthood phase, where now they’re figuring out, who do I want to
be? What do I want to do? Who do I want to marry? Am I ready to make babies
yet? You know, those kinds of decisions, and so to have this stage prepare them
for that is just so important.

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