Family Systems and Life-span Development

Family Systems and Life-span Development
Author: Kurt Kreppner
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134737173

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This interdisciplinary volume presents international research and theories focusing on the development of the individual across the life span. Centering on "family" as the key context influencing, and being influenced by the developing person, the contributors to this volume discuss an array of theoretical models, methodological strategies, and substantive foci linking the study of individual development, the family system, and the broader context of human development. The volume presents continuing empirical research and theories in the realm of individual and family development and features a developmental, contextual view from a process-oriented vantage point.

Family Environment and Intellectual Functioning

Family Environment and Intellectual Functioning
Author: Elena L. Grigorenko
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2001-04-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135671109

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What is the impact of the family environment on us, particularly with regard to our intellectual functioning? Does the role of early family environment wear off, as some researchers have suggested, or does it maintain or possibly even become more important as we grow older? This book examines the interrelationship between family environment and intellectual functioning in a lifespan perspective. Covering a wide range of topics, it provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date examination of life-span family influences on various aspects of intellectual function. For cognitive, development/lifespan, and educational psychologists, and scholars studying the family and its influences, this volume will help: *students learn about family effects; *researchers update themselves in this active area of investigation; *therapists understand problems in intellectual functioning in their clients and in treating these clients successfully; and *educators gain a better grasp on how the students they teach are products not only of their genes and environments, in general, but of their family environments, in particular.

Family and Support Systems across the Life Span

Family and Support Systems across the Life Span
Author: Suzanne K. Steinmetz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1489921060

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Families as Nurturing Systems

Families as Nurturing Systems
Author: Donald G Unger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317765621

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Here is a major new volume for practitioners, researchers, and those concerned with future policies to promote the welfare of children and families. The patterns of support and the ability of family members to care for each other have changed along with the problems for the health and functioning of families. In Families as Nurturing Systems, respected scholars examine the new and emerging directions in the design and implementation of family resources and support programs. They describe and analyze a wide range of program models in the areas of prevention, social support, family resource, and empowerment that have been implemented in schools, the Afro-American church, early intervention programs, the workplace, and the public policy arena, reflecting the needs of families at different stages in the family life cycle.

Life-Span Development and Behavior

Life-Span Development and Behavior
Author: David L. Featherman
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317783735

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This volume continues the tradition of the Life-Span Development Series, presenting overviews of research programs on a variety of developmental topics. Research and theory in life-span development have given increased attention to the issues of constancy and change in human development and to the opportunities for, and constraints on, plasticity in structure and function across life. Acknowledging the need for and existence of interconnection between age and developmental periods, it focuses on conditions for possibly discontinuous development that emerge at later periods. Contributors to this series are sensitive to the restrictive consequences of studying only specific age periods, such as old age, infancy, or adolescence. Each scholar attempts to relate the facts about one age group to similar facts about other age groups, and to move toward the study of transformation of characteristics and processes over the life span.

Life-Span Development and Behavior

Life-Span Development and Behavior
Author: David L. Featherman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-05-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317728963

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The final volume in this significant series, this publication mirrors the broad scientific attention given to ideas and issues associated with the life-span perspective: constancy and change in human development; opportunities for and constraints on plasticity in structure and function across life; the potential for intervention across the entire life course (and thus for the creation of an applied developmental science); individual differences (diversity) in life paths, in contexts (or the ecology) of human development, and in changing relations between people and contexts; interconnections and discontinuities across age levels and developmental periods; and the importance of integrating biological, psychological, social, cultural, and historical levels of organization in order to understand human development.

Life-span Individual and Family Development

Life-span Individual and Family Development
Author: Stella R. Goldberg
Publisher: Monterey, Calif. : Brooks/Cole Publishing Company
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1977
Genre: Developmental psychology
ISBN:

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development
Author: Marc H. Bornstein
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 2616
Release: 2018-01-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1506353312

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Lifespan human development is the study of all aspects of biological, physical, cognitive, socioemotional, and contextual development from conception to the end of life. In approximately 800 signed articles by experts from a wide diversity of fields, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development explores all individual and situational factors related to human development across the lifespan. Some of the broad thematic areas will include: Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood Aging Behavioral and Developmental Disorders Cognitive Development Community and Culture Early and Middle Childhood Education through the Lifespan Genetics and Biology Gender and Sexuality Life Events Mental Health through the Lifespan Research Methods in Lifespan Development Speech and Language Across the Lifespan Theories and Models of Development. This five-volume encyclopedia promises to be an authoritative, discipline-defining work for students and researchers seeking to become familiar with various approaches, theories, and empirical findings about human development broadly construed, as well as past and current research.

Life-span Developmental Psychology

Life-span Developmental Psychology
Author: E. Mark Cummings
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2014-01-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317784820

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Although there has been a significant increase in studies of stress and coping processes in recent years, researchers have often approached these topics from rather narrow and constrained perspectives. Furthermore, little communication has occurred across disciplines and research directions, resulting in the emergence of several relatively isolated literatures. An outgrowth of the Eleventh Biennial West Virginia University Conference on Life-Span Development, this volume emphasizes two major themes: the importance of taking a life-span approach to the study of stress and coping, and the development of new and more complete conceptual models of stress and coping processes. The first to approach these subjects from a life-span perspective, this book includes papers by distinguished researchers from each of the major periods of the life-span, and brings together the cognitive and socioemotional traditions in the study of dealing with pressures. The editors hope that this facilitation of communication among researchers with diverse views will help create a broadening and integration of perspectives.

Case Studies in Lifespan Development

Case Studies in Lifespan Development
Author: Stephanie M. Wright
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1544367791

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Case Studies in Lifespan Development offers students a comprehensive view into life’s key developmental stages through unique, diverse, and moving cases. Author Stephanie M. Wright presents a series of 12 case studies shaped by the contributions of real students—including their observations, concerns, and moments of triumph—to build immersive examples that readers can relate to and enjoy.