Teaching adolescents about adolescence: experiences from an interdisciplinary adolescent health course.
As abstract reasoning increases in complexity, adolescents may face dissonance between new thoughts and prior beliefs. Students in the health professions may be forced to resolve these dissonances in order to execute their professional responsibilities. In developing an undergraduate interdisciplinary course on adolescent health, the authors anticipated challenges in teaching adolescents about adolescence. Over the course of the semester, the anticipated challenges became reality. The author discusses pertinent developmental theories and their application in facilitating late adolescent identity formation and professional role development.
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School of Nursing, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, 408D Robinson Hall, Boston, MA 02115-5000, USA. t.aronowitz@neu.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D000328:Adult; D003073:Cognitive Dissonance; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States