PSYC 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Anna Freud, Peer Pressure, Psychoanalytic Theory

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2240
• Professor: Daniel Beliciu

Document Summary

Autonomy: feeling separate from parents, growth of independent decision making, and developing personal values and beliefs (emotional, behavioral, and cognitive) Teens spend much more time away from direct supervision of adults than prior generations. Today"s teens also have become more economically reliant on their families than prior generations. Early adolescence is a period of growing independence and autonomy. Establishing a healthy sense of autonomy is a lifelong process. Puberty and development of autonomy: cognitive, biological, and social changes. Psychoanalytic theory: physical changes of puberty disrupt family system, resurgence of sexual impulses increase family tensions. Detachment: (anna freud) adolescents driven to separate emotionally from parents and turn to peers. Freud views conflict as a normal part of development in adolescence. No support for storm and stress of adolescence. High levels of adolescent-parent tension are not the norm . Research supports a transformation of family relationships: not breaking off or.