Young Development

Question 1

Young Adulthood

After you have completed the Reading and watched the video on some aspects of young adulthood on page 419, post your initial response to the following statements.

1. Explore some of the changes regarding cognitive development in young adulthood as they relate to the woman in the video.
2. Determine which aspects of socioemotional development in young adulthood were discussed in the video. Assess whether there were positive and/or negative components of this type of development that were emphasized.
3. Identify some of the challenges related to vocational development that were discussed in the video. Integrate into your answer information that determines whether the challenges that were discussed are typical in young adulthood.

Question 2

Jordan is now 40 years old. After a brief tour in the Air Force (once-deployed) and a few rounds of stopping and starting a college education while trying to figure out what he wanted to do, he finally graduated with a 3.7 GPA as a nontraditional, working, online student. Jordan’s degree is in human services, after which he went on to earn a master’s degree in counseling. His new job is on an Army post where he works as a civilian with returning soldiers. Jordan feels that there is much meaning and purpose related to the work that he does, but he feels overworked, underpaid, exhausted, lacking motivation, and dreads going to work each day.

What would you say Jordan is experiencing and what do you recommend that he do to improve his current situation?