Description: When I started university (a looong time ago) I had decided I was going to go into physics. By the end of my first year I had failed physics and math and was beginning to realize I would need to rethink my direction of study. Being somewhat perseverant though, I took the non-honors versions… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Identity Development
Identity and Purpose in Adolescent and Emerging Adult Wellbeing
Description: You cannot have missed at least some of the many recent media references to concerns over the mental health of adolescents in North America. Concerns were being expressed pre-covid and only increased over the months/years of the covid pandemic. Now there have always been versions of the statement “kids these days…!?” out there but… Read more »
Teens as Developmental Mine Canaries
Description: It has been theorized that the ancient historic wholesale movements of people out of Africa, into Europe and over land bridges to North America were initiated not by group elders but by adolescents who decided that their futures were better pursued in places other than where they were. The thought is that others followed,… Read more »
Psychology and Covid-19: Uncertainty is Certain
Description: Suppose you were told that a friend of yours was anxious, just generally anxious. In preparing to talk with them about how they are doing you are thinking a bit about the sorts of questions you might ask them in order to better understand their situation and their mental state. What are you anxious… Read more »
Life Purpose and Goal Setting: Just Do It!
Description: I have posted a number of times on a related cluster of topics including: Identity Development, Life Planning, and Emerging Adulthood (you can search these terms on this site to see the posts). The topics in this cluster reflect the developmental task or moment that is at play through that life phase — figuring… Read more »
Dear Diary: Maybe You Should Journal Regularly
Description: Did you every keep a diary? How about now? Do you write regularly in a diary or, perhaps so as not to suggest a dramatic teenager, do you journal regularly? Just think for a minute, not about the stereotypes associated with keeping a diary but, from a psychological (adjustment, reflection, self-care, and/or a developmental)… Read more »
Life After High School: Is it still an Easter egg hunt or ?
Description: The fall term approaches and that means that many of you are gearing up to head back to college or to university. It also means that some of you are about to take the first step on your post-secondary developmental pathways. I have written a lot previously on issues related to the developmental shift… Read more »
Not “Are You Creative” but “Can You Become Creative”
Description: In this post I am introducing you to another blog post that has just started under the Psychology Today umbrella. It is written by a couple of profs at George Mason University in Virginia and it is going to focus upon a view of creativity as a craft that can be practiced and honed… Read more »
New Years Resolutions? Developmental Life Design is Better!
Description: In my previous 2 blog posts (1. http://wileypsychologyupdates.ca/human-development/resolutions-not-the-places-to-start-life-development-and-change/ and 2. http://wileypsychologyupdates.ca/general-psychology/adult-development-and-aging/resolutions-better-to-work-on-life-engagement/) I wrote about the Big Life Task of identity formation and about the bleak picture painted of how this important post-secondary developmental enterprise is seen as going for many (40 to 45%) emerging adults (18 to 29-year-old’s). I pointed out that there are a… Read more »
Resolutions? Better to Work on Life Engagement!
Description: My previous blog (http://wileypsychologyupdates.ca/human-development/resolutions-not-the-places-to-start-life-development-and-change/) might have seemed a bit bleak in that it talked about how the largest proportion of 1st year university students (40 to 45%) utilize an Identity Processing Style called Diffused which suggests that in taking on the Big Life Task of figuring out who they are, where they are going,… Read more »
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