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Session Six: Family and peer influences
What are the influences of families and peers on adolescent development? - The context of adolescent development: Families and peers
- The nature of family processes
- Parental styles and parent-adolescent relations
- Peer group functions and the importance of friendship
- Parental and peer influences- A false dichotomy?
- Implications for working with parents and adolescents
At end of the session, the participants will be able to: |
Task: Peer Influence (see above)
Example: (The task below is just selected from those tasks assigned in the Learning Guides.)
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Case
1:
A 13-yr-old F.1 girl was found dead one summer evening whilst socialising with peers in a disco at Mongkok. It was School remarked that the girl was of a pleasant personality, well-behaved, courteous and academically high performing. The father is a truck driver. Parents got divorced months ago. The girl and the elder brother were under the custody (Source: Apple Daily, 27/7/2006) Case 2: A study was conducted by the Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005 using peer influence to turn adolescents away Dr. Steven Danish, the Director of the Life Skills Centre in VCU Dep't of Psychology commented that peer pressure is the (Source: Richmond Times, 8/2/2005) |
References (see above)
Further readings and resources: