Intimacy Class
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ADOLESCENCE AND INTIMACYPsychology of adolescence
WHAT IS INTIMACY?
•Relationship where two or more people reveal personal thoughts and information about each other
•Comfort•Support•Physical closeness•Hugging and touching•Deeper level connection
YOUR ADOLESCENT FRIEND
•Where did you meet?
•What was special about that relationship?
•What was special about him/her?
•What things did you share?
•How did you feel when you were together?
WHAT IS INTIMACY?
•Why does intimacy develops in adolescence?
•Safer to reveal things to peers
•Rebellious towards adults seek approval
•Individuals with similar backgrounds
WHAT IS INTIMACY?
•Sullivan by sharing teens increase their self-steem
•Identity formation
•Attributes that makes each of them unique
•Deeper understanding of the self and others
WHAT IS INTIMACY?
•Mechanic extensive sharing of personal feelings leads to heightened introspection
psychological problems
•Close friendships away from introspection free from the “stressors” of growing up
INTIMACY AND ROMANCE
•Older adolescents they learn from being intimate
•Romance = complications
•Sex and sexual preferences
•Learn through sharing
Sullivan and Erikson
•Intimacy in adolescence is essential to reach a “healthy sense of identity”
•Identity vs. role confusion first acquire a sense of identity, then intimacy
BOYS AND GIRLS
•Girls = bond through feelings and thought
•Boys = bond through actions and deeds
VALIDATION OF SELF WORTH
BOYS AND GIRLS
•Girls = caring, soothing, sharing, “emotional”
•Boys: sharing activities, “not caring much”
BOYS AND GIRLS
•Girls = make less but good friends
•Boys: make friends easier than girls = bigger groups
•Keep friends if you don’t change school
INTIMACY AND FAMILY
•Studies have shown…
•Boys having a “close” relationship with their fathers have closer, longer friendships
•Single-parents home affects relationships if teens don’t have contact with adults father-absent homes
INTIMACY AND SOCIAL CLASS
•Middle and upper classes = more rewarding, closer intimacy than lower classes. Inside and outside the house.
•Levels of intimacy = workers earlier sexual experiences and more accepting of sexual intimacy
SIBLINGS AND INTIMACY
•Do you have brothers or sister?
•How did this affect your relationships?
•Siblings + & - influence
PARENTS AND INTIMACY
•Temporal decline in parent-teen intimacy
•Teens closer to mother because fathers are the authority figure
•Recent study has shown that intimacy with fathers increase during early adolescence
Dunphy's five-stage theory•Stage 1: Pre-crowd stage. Isolated unisexual
cliques. •Stage 2: The beginning of the crowd.
Unisexual cliques in group-to-group interaction.
•Stage 3: The crowd in structural transition. Unisexual cliques with upper status members forming a heterosexual clique.
• Stage 4: The fully developed crowd. Heterosexual cliques in close association.
•Stage 5: Beginning of crowd disintegration. Loosely associated groups of couples.
DIFFICULT SITUATIONS
•Dating violence•Who’s to blame?•Why does violence persist?•1 in 4 adolescents have been involved in violent relationships.