Goal analysis

Goal statement: with the society’s development,everything seems in the process of going
forward. We have advanced technology,high quality of living life and well-developed social
internet. But there are more and more mental illness appeared which increased suicide rate
among adults especially in adolescents. As a report --Study on the transmission mode and
preventive measures of social network "negative energy information" among teenagers-- shows
that 32.09% children or adolescents in China have suicide attempt. once an"Blue whale" suicide
game spread on the social internet which is instigating people to suicide by involved in the game.
This has an bad impact among adolescents,some teenagers joint and broadcast their suicide
through the social internet. Before this happened in China,there are cases like “suicide by burning
charcoal”“Suicide by body embroidery”etc various ways to kill themselves.it has developed into a
serious problem that attracts the whole society’s attention, particularly parents and educators.

so why adolescents want to abandon their life when we have better living environment than
before?is it the negative production of social development? What should be done to improve
these situations? Thus,my goal is trying to explore the reasons and solving ways to adolescents’
suicide.

In order to analyze my goal, i put it in 5 steps like below:

Step1,to collect the problems existed in society related to adolescent suicide. It can be broke
down in several aspects:the spreading of “negative energy”information,suicide is beautified and
packaged,adolescents’ mental and physical immaturity,social networking platform’s poor
regulation and blind spots in law.

Step2,to identify the problems in adolescents themselves.it can be broke down into two
aspects,one from outside induction and another one from inner thoughts.for outside induction
may have persuading from peers etc.for inner thoughts may have suicidal thoughts,non-suicidal
self-harm,hopelessness of life,substance use,low extraversion or even sleep difficulties.

Step3,the measures can be adopted by family.it can be describe as parents’ love and accompany
which meanings talking to adolescents,taking care of their feelings,helping them build confidence
and fighting ability etc.

Step4,the measures can be adopted by school.school can implement activities to help

adolescents open their mind,carry out mental health regular classes,construct adolescents’
Psychological archives,guarding students to find glorious things in life etc.

Step5,the measures can be adopted by society.it can think like society’s caring，offer help to
adolescents who may in mental issues,lower requirements to adolescents,full understanding to
them,no more moral kidnapping on adolescents etc.

I put my sequence of steps like above.from step1 to step5.for once i want to seek out solutions
what i should do first is to clarify why the issue comes.From the external environment to the
internal environment,From the most connected around adolescent to the most distant.
Learner analysis(characteristics analysis)

For many, adolescents are first and foremost a group that causes problems for adults and
becomes a burden on society, according to the Walter Schurian in his book the psychology of
adolescence.they are emotion rich, strong, but not mature stable, easy to impulsive
imbalance.Due to the lack of social experience and poor ability of identification, judgment and
selection, it is difficult to compare and choose the positive and negative influences in real social
life.adolescents are sometimes stubborn, not easy to change their wrong views. They pursue high
expectations of goals, and their ideal is divorced from reality. Most adolescents use social value
and significance to measure and judge social phenomena or their own. In terms of spiritual needs,
they usually full of hope and desire for the future, hope to get the warmth from family and the
support from friends, willing to gain the respect and understanding of others, and have the desire
and impulse to create. For emotional experience, adolescents often have various inappropriate
emotional reactions to various new stimulation that are difficult to deal with. Due to changes in
certain endocrine glands, adolescents are emotionally stressed and experience intense fear,
anger or love every day, accompanied by intense emotional colors. In terms of social behavior,
adolescents are sometimes feel family life is monotonous which shown as communication with
their parents reduced, and parent-child relationship getting tense. They like to join small groups,
which can lead to danger and trouble if they choose wrong friends. According to the tendency
adolescents psychological development, in the early youth it is mainly negative, which is
manifested as unhappiness, restlessness, resistance, stubbornness, roughness and laziness.
During this period, adolescents are significantly more perceptive, often excitable, more easily
diverted in interest, more easily shaken in will, more suspicious of everything, and their inner
dissatisfaction makes them always want to rebel against those around them.