Human growth and development / Chris Beckett & Hilary Taylor.
Publication details: Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, c2010.Edition: 2nd editionDescription: vii, 222 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781847871787 (hbk.)
- 184787178X (hbk.)
- 1847871798 (pbk.)
- 9781847871794 (pbk.)
- 155 22 BEC
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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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