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When did you become an adult? Was it the day you
graduated from high school? Or, was it the day you moved out of your parents'
or caregivers' home? Your description of what it means to be an adult and how
and when an adolescent transitions into adulthood may differ from that of your
colleagues.
The authors of your course
text, Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman, use the term young and middle adulthood to identify
the life-span time period between age 18 and 65.
This classification distinguishes this time in the life of
an individual from childhood and adolescence and from the later years of
adulthood.
Is the
authors' young and middle adulthood classification a useful one? What
is especially useful and not useful about the classification? What changes
would you make to the authors' classification to make it more
applicable to your role as a social worker?
For this
Discussion, you analyze the
author's life-span classification and suggest ways to improve
it.
Life-Span
Classification
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I
think our stances of who an adult is very significantly, mainly when growth
aspects such as biological, social, and psychological, are put into play. For
example, I think I became an adult when I completed high school. I know this
because I was very responsible; I would advise my younger siblings. However, I
was still living with my parents.
Classification,
concerning human beings' growth and development, can be considered groupings
based on age. However, age alone cannot be used as a parameter to determine
that a person has transitioned from one age to another. Several other factors,
such as responsibilities, behaviors, have a critical role to play when grouping
people into either; children, adolescents, middle adulthood, and elderly. To make sense of this classification,
different scholars have elaborated through various outlooks on human grouping
into distinct classes. Some scholars are Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman (2016), who
believe people between ages 18 and
65 are at the young and middle adulthood stages.
Based
on Pearce and Denney's (1984)
information, I would create a new classification for the young adult to start
from 27 to 37 years. In this reclassification, I have considered two things.
First, young adults are people who have left their guardians or parents and are
financially stable living on their own. Second, this group’s minds have full
development and can make rational decisions about their lives (Pearce &
Denney,1984). Also, at this stage, people have a different outlook on life and
understand their mistakes during their adolescence.
This new classification creates room for adolescents; as people striving to understand their life priorities by going to school and struggling to get jobs. According to Pearce and Denney (1984), the psychological development phase is not high among 18 years olds...
