Division Conference and Feedback- Giving,Barkada Kontra Droga (BKD) In-Change

June 27, 2015

Philip Neri Angelo L. EspinosaBKD – Division President

We are Young

• Teen brains are still

http://www.mentorfoundation.org/brain

The brain continues to develop into adulthood and undergoes dramatic changes during adolescence.

K - 6 Grade 7 – Senior High

20 year old person

Blue represents maturing of brain areas

One of the brain areas still maturing during adolescence is the prefrontal cortex11 -

the part of the brain that enables us to assess situations, make sound decisions, and keep our emotions and desires under control. PARENTAL CONTROL/ CEO over the brain reward system.

• Involved in emotion processing and reward processing. And the regions found within the Lymbic system is HYPERSENSITIVE to the reward feeling.

• Hypothalamus• Master regulator of almost all major drives

and motives we have, including hunger, thirst, and sexual behavior.

• Hippocampus• Key in memory systems. Events and

information that are important enough, are established as lasting memories.

• Amygdala• Involved in processing emotion and

memory. Determines the emotional significance of stimuli, especially when they evoke fear.

Lymbic System

• Adolescent have difficulty in decision making (Steinberg, 2004)– In lab: similarities in adolescent & adult decision

making processes

• Adolescents are uniquely vulnerable to risk taking– originality & sensation seeking increase dramatically at

puberty– Development of self-regulation lags behind

• Risk taking as group behavior (Steinberg, 2004)

WHAT TO EXPECT?

• “on second though..” not in the repertoire

• Parents must use their judgment to protect teens

• Parents must anticipate – teens need help with this.

• Less than optimal planning and judgment

Expect impulsivity, poor judgment

and emotionality.

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Etymology from www.etymonline.com

• addict (v.) 1530s (implied in addicted), from Latin addictus, past participle of addicere "to deliver, award, yield; give assent, make over, sell," figuratively "to devote, consecrate; sacrifice, sell out, betray" from ad- "to" (see ad-) + dicere "say, declare" (see diction), but also "adjudge, allot." Earlier in English as an adjective, "delivered, devoted" (1520s). Related: Addicted; addicting.

Compulsivity

The inability to stop a behavior, even when it is harmful.

Drugs and some “Processed Foods” causes Dopamine Overload

Thereafter….

Next step is you develop TOLERANCE

what is next after TOLERANCE?COMPULSION

Different Drug, Different Effect

The mouse party

Reduction of D2 receptors is associated with the dysfunction of an additional structure in the brain’s reward system, the Prefrontal Cortex. Problems with prefrontal cortex are associated with lack in inhibitory control or fore taught.

BEST LESSONfrom BKD Experience (to date)

You do not have control over the building blocks (genes)

of who you are, you DO HAVE A SAY in who you will

BECOME.

The Beauty of SYNAPTIC PRUNING

Synaptic Refinement through 30s

Drug Addiction PREVENTION is the KEY

How do you think this knowledge could impact your being:

• Guidance Counselor• Values Education Teacher

• Parent• BKD Adviser :P