Question

What essential elements should be included in a health teaching plan addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual challenges in adolescents?

Answer 1

Physical= Health teaching should focus on organ system maturation, as it is a time of metabolic slowing and of increasing size of some organs.

Emotional and social=Adolescents undergo a great deal of change in the areas of emotional and social development as they grow. So health teaching should focus on adolescents relationship with parents;self-concept and body image;importance of peers and sexuality and dating.

Spiritual-Health teaching should focus on developing moral values ,as majority of their decision are based upon emotions while they are questioning societsl standards.