This presentation will address the main developmental issues common to 18-29 year-olds, including identity explorations, instability, self-development, feeling in-between adolescence and adulthood, and sense of possibilities. The focus will be on normal development, but implications for mental health will also be discussed.
The goal is to inform participants about normal development from ages 18 to 29, including how what is “normal” has changed over the past half century, as education has become broader and longer and as ages of entering marriage and parenthood have come later. Historical developments over the past 70 years leading to the rise of the new life stage of emerging adulthood will be outlined.
Mental health challenges will also be discussed, including depression, anxiety, and substance abuse, in the context of normative developmental challenges such as identity explorations. This will also include a discussion of resilience in emerging adulthood and how to promote it.
This presentation will address the main developmental issues common to 18-29 year-olds, including identity explorations, instability, self-development, feeling in-between adolescence and adulthood, and sense of possibilities. The focus will be on normal development, but implications for mental health will also be discussed.
The goal is to inform participants about normal development from ages 18 to 29, including how what is “normal” has changed over the past half century, as education has become broader and longer and as ages of entering marriage and parenthood have come later. Historical developments over the past 70 years leading to the rise of the new life stage of emerging adulthood will be outlined.
Mental health challenges will also be discussed, including depression, anxiety, and substance abuse, in the context of normative developmental challenges such as identity explorations. This will also include a discussion of resilience in emerging adulthood and how to promote it.
Recorded on 22nd August 2022
Learning Objectives
Name and describe the five features of emerging adulthood.
Explain how and why what is normal during ages 18-29 has changed over the past half century.
Identify the primary historical trends that contributed to the rise of emerging adulthood.
Identify the primary mental health challenges of emerging adulthood and how normative developmental features may contribute to them.
Explain the developmental features of resilience in emerging adulthood and the potential for tapping those resources in mental health treatment.
About the Speaker
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is the foremost authority in the world on the age period from 18 to 29 that he named emerging adulthood. He is the author of the book Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties, now in its 2nd edition, published in 2015 by Oxford University Press. He is also the Founding President and Executive Director of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (www.ssea.org). Dr. Arnett is a Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has appeared on national television and frequently in print media, including a cover story in the New York Times Sunday magazine in August, 2010. His book (with Elizabeth Fishel) for parents of emerging adults, Getting to 30: A Parents Guide to the Twentysomething Years, was published in May 2013. For more information, see www.jeffreyarnett.com.
CPD/CE
CPD & CE credits available: 3
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The participant must pass the multiple-choice test with a minimum score of 80%. There is a maximum of three attempts to achieve this.
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– The CPD Group, London
– Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
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Emerging Adulthood, Ages 18-29: Navigating a Perilous but Promising Decade – Jeffrey Arnett
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