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Tawnda Littlewood
Observation 4 Adolescent
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13
Jacob
Jacobs home, Taylorsville, Utah
I am interviewing Jacob in his living room on his couch. He
seems pretty relaxed but his 6yo brother keeps coming in to
see what hes doing.
Physical Development
According to Berger (pg. 325) often times depression in adolescent males
shows up as anger. Jacob when asked how he handles the changes of puberty
stated that often times he just wants to get a big rock to handle it He refers often
throughout the interview to using violence to handle problems. This could be a
potential sign of depression.
The text book describes adolescent growth spurt (Berger pg. 326) as a
proximodistal reversal and averages around age 13 Jacob states that he didnt
really notice his hands and feet growing before he got taller it all happened about
the same time not long after he turned 13 which would put him in an average
category as far as timing of his growth spurt and that the only thing he has noticed
is that one of his ears is larger than the other. This is also further backed by his
mention of growing at about the same time as most boys his age. Therefore Jacob
seems to be a normally growing 13 year-old.
Berger (pg. 322) describes circadian rhythms as possibly affecting
adolescences sleep patterns, Jacob is either does not fall into the normal category
of a normal teenager or something else, his typical schedule is that he falls
asleep between 9 or 10 and is woken up by his mother around 6-6:30am for
school, he did not go into much detail about his sleep patterns on the weekends.
He states he feels he gets enough sleep and even if he doesnt hes just fine and
functions fine.
Cognitive Development
Reference List
Berger, K. S. (2014). Invitation to the Life Span (2nd Ed.). New York, NY: Worth
Publishers.