TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beckett,Chris
AU  - Taylor,Hilary
TI  - Human growth and development
SN  - 9781847871787 (hbk.)
U1  - 155 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Los Angeles, London
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Developmental psychology
N1  - 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.
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