Multimedia Resources

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LO 12.2. Outline the process of identity development during adolescence, including influences and outcomes associated with identity status.
Video Resource: “I Am Who I Am”: Adolescent Responses
Description: An 11th-grade teacher asked students to answer the question: Who am I? Watch the video to see excerpts from their responses.

LO 12.3. Explore changes in adolescents’ relationships with parents and the contribution of parenting style and monitoring to adolescent adjustment.
Video Resource: Family Conflict and Puberty
Description: Laurence Steinberg, Professor of Psychology at Temple University, discusses the link between family conflict and early puberty in girls.

LO 12.5. Differentiate the developmental progression of cliques and crowds.
Web Resource: Adolescent Crowds
Description: The Psychology Today article discusses peer crowds and how they affect modern teens.

LO 12.6. Analyze how susceptibility to peer influence changes from early adolescence to late adolescence.
Web Resource: Teens and Peer Pressure
Description: The WebMD article discusses where peer pressure comes from and what parents can do to help teens handle peer pressure.

LO 12.7. Compare the factors that contribute to sexual activity, contraceptive use, and the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during adolescence.
Video Resource: Benefits of Teen Sex
Description: Paige Harden, assistant professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, discusses the results of her study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. The study found some potential social benefits for teens who are sexually active in dating relationships.

LO 12.7. Compare the factors that contribute to sexual activity, contraceptive use, and the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during adolescence.
Video Resource: Abstinence-Only Education
Description: Prof. Laurence Steinberg of Temple University explains why abstinence-only education doesn’t work.

LO 12.8. Discuss risk factors for adolescent pregnancy and influences on the adjustment of adolescent mothers and their children.
Audio Resource: Reducing Teen Pregnancy
Description: The NPR story discusses lessons learned from a town in South Carolina that went from having one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation to one of the lowest.

LO 12.9. Compare and contrast the risk factors for and treatments for adolescent problems such as depression and suicide, eating disorders, and substance use and abuse.
Video Resource: Adult vs. Teenage Depression
Description: Why do teens experience depression differently than adults do? This clip discusses what depression is and how it manifests in teen and adult brains.

LO 12.10. Characterize normative delinquent activities during adolescence as compared with serious lifelong criminal activity.
Video Resource: Failed Approach to Juvenile Justice
Description: Teens are receiving harsher sentences, but Prof. Laurence Steinberg of Temple University explains this reflects a misunderstanding of the adolescent brain.