BSDC2206 CHILD AND ADOLESCENT COUNSELLING

BSDC2206 CHILD AND ADOLESCENT COUNSELLING

Course start date: 30 Aug 2019
The word ?adolescence? comes from the Latin (adolesere) meaning ?to grow into maturity?, as well as being a time of enormous physiological change, adolescence is also marked by changes in behavior, expectations and relationships with both parents and peers. Relationships with adults in general and parents in particular, must be renegotiated in a way that allows the adolescent to achieve greater independence. This process is aided by changing relationships with peers. Historically, adolescence has been seen as a period of transition between childhood and adulthood. But writers today are more likely to describe it as one of multiple transitions, involving education, training employment and unemployment, as well as transition from one set of living circumstances to another (Coleman and Roker, 1998).The course aims at enabling students understand the timing of adolescence, its subdivisions, its outstanding characteristics, and the developmental tasks of this period.