Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Identify the leading human development theorists and their theories.
- Compare traditional and current views of adolescent and cognitive development.
- Explain the role of the evolving influences of education, technology, safety, and family in adolescent development.
- Identify the stages of physical development in adolescents.
- Recognize cognitive, moral, social, and emotional development in adolescents.
- Analyze moral reasoning and self-control in adolescent development.
- Describe how adolescent societies, cultures, subcultures, and peers influence moral and social development.
- Describe the influence of peer relationships on adolescent development.
- Compare adolescent and family relationships with adolescent and peer group relationships.
- Analyze how media affects adolescents.
- Explain how family and peer relationships shape adolescent educational and vocational decisions.
- Analyze changes in self-concept and self-esteem during adolescence.
- Identify patterns of interaction among diverse groups of adolescents.
- Describe the racial and ethnic composition of adolescents in the United States.
- Identify potential causes of and interventions for adolescent alienation.
- Describe the physiological and sociological effects of alcohol, narcotics, prescription drugs, and tobacco on adolescents.
- Analyze common sexual behavior characteristics in adolescent development.
- Explain factors that may cause stress in adolescents.