Human growth and development /
Chris Beckett & Hilary Taylor.
- 2nd edition
- Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, c2010.
- vii, 222 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents;
1. The birth of a human being: What makes us who we are? Ideas, theories and prejudices Nature versus nurture Free will versus predetermination etc.
2. The balancing act: Psychodynamic insights The unconscious The structure of personality Psychosexual stages etc.
3. A secure base: The importance of attachment John Bowlby and maternal deprivation The biological origins of attachment The secure base and attachment behavioural systems etc.
4. The emergence of reason: The developing ability to understand Cognitive psychology and cognitive development Learning to make sense of the world Accommodation, assimilation and equilibrium etc.
5. Making connections: Ideas from behaviourism Classical conditions Behaviourism Operant conditioning etc.
6. Who am I going to be? Adolescence, identity and change Culture and biology Transitions Identity versus role confusion etc.
7. Acting like a grown-up: Challenges of adulthood What do we mean by adult? Development, continuity and change Stages and transitions etc.
8. No man is an island: Family systems and their life cycle Systems theory Systems and families The family life cycle etc.
9. Access to adulthood: Growing up with a disability Social and medical models Impairments and developmental pathways Families, children and disability etc.
10. It takes a village: The sociological perspective The sociological perspective Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory Social construction etc.
11. Coming to conclusion: Themes in old age Physical changes Cognitive changes Tasks and challenges etc.
12. That good night: Death, dying and bereavement Death and society Death and others The individual experience of death
Bibliographical references : p. [203]-214 . _ Index : p. 215-222.