HDE 100B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Major Depressive Episode, 18 Months, Casual Dating
25 Sep 2016
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True intimacy is characterized by openness, honesty, self-disclosure, and trust. Intimacy becomes an adolescent concern because of normative biological, cognitive, and social changes. Intimate relationships first emerge in adolescence: theoretical perspectives on adolescent intimacy. Psychological development can be best understood in interpersonal terms. Sullivan"s theory of interpersonal development emphasized the social aspects of growth: his theory focuses on transformations in relationships with others. The need for intimacy precedes development of romantic or sexual relationships. The challenge during adolescence is to make the transition between nonsexual, intimate same-sex friendships to sexual, intimate other-sex friendships of late adolescence. Need for contact with people, need for tenderness from mom. Need for peer playmates, need for acceptance into peer society groups. Need for intimacy and consensual validation in same-sex friendships. Need for sexual contact, need for intimacy with other-sex partner. Need for integration into adult society: attachment in adolescence, attachment a strong and enduring emotional bond (usually formed first in infancy)
