Equipping Teens and Emerging Adults To Build Their Pathways Forward
Resources, Information, and Inspiration for High School Psychology Teachers, Guidance Counselors, Education Advisors, CALM Teachers, and Parents of Teens and Emerging Adults
Psychology in High Schools
Everyone needs a bit of Psychology as they negotiate their transitions through high school and out into their post-secondary lives. Psychology is unfortunately viewed as a non-core subject area at the high school level. Besides being of great interest to high school students, Psychology courses can help them find developmental traction in building their identities and in preparing for their transitions to post-secondary life. Find out how I can help you help your students engage with Psychology by checking the Teaching Resources and Dual Credit/Transition Resources pages and looking through the Psychology for Everyday Life Newsletter.
Dual Credit / Transitions
In developing and teaching a dual credit course called Psychology For Everyday Life I have tried to engage senior high school students with areas of Psychology that are of interest to them and which, through assignments and class exercises, can help them find developmental traction in building their identities and in preparing for their transitions to post-secondary life. Find out about this dual credit course, some of the assignments and exercises in contains, and its approach to engaging students with Psychology and their on development by checking the Dual Credit/Transition Resources page and looking through the Psychology for Everyday Life Newsletter.
Advising and Identity Building
If you are a high school counselor or advisor then you are already keenly aware of the recent, alarming, increases in levels of depression, anxiety, and self-harm among teens and emerging adults. Research pointing to the roles that smartphone and social media use are playing in this is compelling but not very helpful as we try and figure out what to do. I believe that an understanding of the contexts and processes of identity development through the teenage and emerging adult years these days provides us with the broader developmental context we need for understanding teen mental health as well as indicating opportunities and strategies for effective support and intervention. You can find links and resources related to this boarder developmental perspective on Identity Building on the Advising and Identity Building Resources page and by looking through the Psychology for Everyday Life Newsletter.
Look Throught the Resource Pages, Read the Newsletter/Blog, Ask a Question
Subscribe to receive Updates and Newsletters in your Inbox!