Adolescent Development
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The adolescent I observed was a member of The A Better Chance (ABC) program, a nationwide program that offers disadvantaged but academically talented inner-city youths an opportunity to live in a suburb with safe and quality schools. The child I observed was a male named Justin Smith, a 15-year-old, African-American male from Philadelphia, PA, who was living in the ABC Program House in State College, PA, with six other program “scholars”. During the non-school year, Justin lives in south Philadelphia with his mother, Patricia. Justin’s father, Lamar, divorced Patricia when Justin was two. Justin and his father remain estranged to this day. Justin’s mother works for Coca-Cola as a personnel receptionist. She earns $21,872 per year. Justin lives during the school year in State College, PA, home of Penn State University and State College High School. Justin attends State College High through the ABC program with his six other housemates. He is a junior in high school and maintains a 3.5 grade point average. He is also a fullback on the State College High school Little Lions football team. Hobbies of Justin’s include listening to music, playing basketball, playing Sony Play Station games, and reading science fiction novels. Justin is stocky at 5’11” and 210 pounds. He is well developed, muscular and keeps in shape by working out regularly for during football practice and lifting weights i
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the first stage known as obedience and punish orientation and the second known as naively egoistic orientation. On the preconventional/premoral level, those who are in the obedience and punishment orientation stage exhibit the following:
Egocentric deference to superior power or prestige, or a trouble-avoiding set
Objective responsibility
(Kohlberg’s 1)
The next level of moral development is the conventional/role conformity level, which includes the following two stages: good-boy/good-girl orientation, and authority and social-order-maintaining orientation. The highest level of morality is the postconventional/self-accepted moral principles level. On this level there are the contractual/legalistic and the morality of individual principles of conscience stages. With Justin, I believe he is still on the preconventional/premoral level of moral development as defined by Kohlberg “Moral values reside in external, quasi-physical events, or in bad acts. The child is responsive to rules and evaluative labels, but views them in terms of pleasant or unpleasant consequences of actions, or in terms of the physical power of those who impose the rules” (Kohlberg’s 1).
At ABC house, there are two Resident Directors who reside with the
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