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# Development Through the Lifespan: A Comprehensive Guide
Are you curious about the incredible journey of human development, from the first breath to the twilight years? This comprehensive guide explores development through the lifespan, examining the significant physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes we experience across different stages of life. We'll delve into the key milestones, challenges, and influences that shape who we become, providing you with a deeper understanding of this fascinating process. This isn't just a dry recitation of facts; we'll explore the nuances and complexities that make human development so captivating. Prepare to embark on a journey of self-discovery and gain a valuable perspective on the human experience.
The Prenatal Period: Building the Foundation (Conception to Birth)
The journey begins before birth. The prenatal period, encompassing germinal, embryonic, and fetal stages, is a period of rapid growth and development. This phase is incredibly sensitive to environmental influences, including nutrition, teratogens (substances harmful to fetal development), and maternal stress.
Germinal Stage: The First Two Weeks
This initial stage focuses on cell division and implantation in the uterine wall. A single fertilized egg rapidly multiplies, forming a blastocyst that eventually embeds itself, establishing the foundation for further growth.
Embryonic Stage: Weeks 3-8
This stage witnesses the development of major organs and body systems. The neural tube forms, giving rise to the brain and spinal cord. The heart begins to beat, and limb buds emerge, laying the groundwork for future limbs.
Fetal Stage: Weeks 9-Birth
The fetal stage is characterized by significant growth and refinement of organ systems. The fetus becomes increasingly responsive to external stimuli, and vital systems mature in preparation for life outside the womb.
Infancy and Toddlerhood (Birth to 2 Years): Rapid Growth and Early Learning
This period is marked by extraordinary physical, cognitive, and socioemotional growth. Infants develop fundamental motor skills, from grasping objects to crawling and walking. Language acquisition begins, with babbling evolving into meaningful words and phrases. Attachment to caregivers is crucial for emotional security and social development.
Motor Development: Milestones and Progress
Infants achieve significant motor milestones, such as head control, rolling over, sitting, crawling, and walking. These achievements reflect the maturation of the nervous system and the development of muscle strength and coordination.
Cognitive Development: Sensorimotor Stage
According to Piaget's theory, infants are in the sensorimotor stage, exploring the world through their senses and motor actions. Object permanence—the understanding that objects continue to exist even when out of sight—is a significant milestone during this period.
Socioemotional Development: Attachment and Bonding
Secure attachment to caregivers lays the foundation for healthy emotional and social development. Infants learn to trust and depend on their caregivers, which influences their ability to form relationships later in life.
Childhood (2 to 11 Years): Exploring the World and Developing Skills
Childhood is a time of continued physical, cognitive, and socioemotional growth. Children refine motor skills, expand their cognitive abilities, and develop a sense of self. School entry marks a significant transition, introducing children to structured learning and peer interactions.
Cognitive Development: Preoperational and Concrete Operational Stages
Children progress through Piaget's preoperational and concrete operational stages, developing symbolic thought, logical reasoning, and the ability to understand conservation (the understanding that quantity remains the same despite changes in appearance).
Socioemotional Development: Peer Relationships and Self-Esteem
Developing friendships and navigating peer relationships becomes increasingly important. Children begin to develop a sense of self-esteem and identity, influenced by their experiences at home, school, and in their social circles.
Adolescence (12 to 18 Years): Identity Formation and Transition
Adolescence is a period of rapid physical, cognitive, and socioemotional change, marked by puberty, abstract thinking, and the exploration of identity. This phase is often characterized by challenges related to peer pressure, identity formation, and emotional regulation.
Physical Development: Puberty and Bodily Changes
Puberty brings significant physical changes, including hormonal shifts, sexual maturation, and growth spurts. These changes can impact self-esteem and body image.
Cognitive Development: Formal Operational Stage
Adolescents enter Piaget's formal operational stage, capable of abstract thinking, hypothetical reasoning, and problem-solving.
Adulthood (18 Years Onward): Diverse Paths and Life Stages
Adulthood encompasses a vast range of experiences, from establishing careers and families to navigating midlife transitions and aging. The challenges and opportunities faced vary significantly depending on individual circumstances.
Early Adulthood: Career, Relationships, and Family
Early adulthood focuses on establishing independence, pursuing careers, forming intimate relationships, and potentially starting a family.
Middle Adulthood: Midlife Transitions and Re-evaluation
Midlife often involves re-evaluating life choices, adjusting to changing roles (e.g., empty nest syndrome), and confronting physical changes associated with aging.
Late Adulthood: Aging and Life Review
Late adulthood brings challenges associated with physical decline, but also opportunities for reflection, wisdom, and continued personal growth.
Conclusion
Understanding development through the lifespan provides a valuable framework for appreciating the complexities of human experience. From the remarkable journey of prenatal development to the challenges and rewards of adulthood, each stage presents unique opportunities for growth and learning. By understanding these developmental processes, we can better support ourselves and others throughout life's various stages.
FAQs
1. How does nature vs. nurture impact development? Both nature (genetics) and nurture (environment) play crucial roles, interacting in complex ways to shape individual development. Genetic predispositions influence traits and capabilities, while environmental factors significantly impact how those traits are expressed.
2. What are some common developmental challenges? Developmental challenges can include learning disabilities, emotional disorders, and physical impairments. Early identification and intervention are crucial in supporting individuals facing these challenges.
3. How can I support the development of a child? Providing a nurturing environment, engaging in stimulating activities, and fostering positive relationships are key elements of supporting a child's development.
4. How can I cope with the challenges of aging? Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, engaging in social activities, and seeking support when needed are important strategies for coping with the challenges of aging.
5. Are there specific developmental milestones I should be aware of? Yes, numerous resources offer age-appropriate developmental milestones for various areas (physical, cognitive, socioemotional). Consulting these resources can provide valuable insights and help identify potential developmental delays.
| development through lifespan: Development Through the Lifespan Laura E. Berk, 2016-09-30 |
| development through lifespan: Growth and Development Across the Lifespan Gloria Leifer, Eve Fleck, 2012-10-15 This book provides introductory coverage of growth and development throughout the lifespan. The content emphasizes normal aspects as well as the unique problems and health promotion needs of each age and stage of development. It features a strong health promotion theme structured around Healthy People 2020 objectives. - Lifespan coverage from prenatal development to death helps students integrate concepts related to normal changes in each stage of the life cycle. - Coverage of current research and trends in health care provide readers with the most up-to-date, accurate information. - Health promotion and disease prevention, including Healthy People 2020 objectives, are highlighted throughout the book. - Cultural content is highlighted throughout the book and in new Chapter 3: Cultural Considerations in Health Care to encourage students to consider cultural implications at every stage of development. - Separate chapter on advanced old age and geriatrics (Chapter 14) discuss the theories, physiological changes, and psychological aspects of aging; health promotion and maintenance; and the role of health care providers in caring for the geriatric patient. All of this helps students understand how to maintain quality of life and promote health in advanced old age. - Teaching techniques for every developmental stage are part of a consistent chapter format and provide age-appropriate patient education tips. - Consistent chapter organization for each stage of growth and development makes information easy to access. - Critical Thinking scenarios and questions appear at the end of each chapter to help students consider all variables when planning care across the lifespan. - Student learning features include Objectives, Key Terms, Key Points, and Review Questions. - Appendix A includes the FDA's Recommended Child and Adult Immunization Schedules, providing essential health promotion information. - NEW Appendix B provides a Multilingual Glossary of Symptoms to enhance students' awareness of culturally sensitive care. - Glossary includes definitions of Key Terms and additional terms help students review concepts and terminology at a glance. - Bibliography is organized by chapter at the end of the book to facilitate additional research and study. |
| development through lifespan: Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan David Capuzzi, Mark D. Stauffer, 2016-02-10 A practically focused guide to effective counseling of all clients Human Development Across the Life Span is a practical guide to human growth and development, moving beyond theory to include real-world applications for counselors who work with clients. Written by recognized authorities in mental health counseling and counselor education, this book is fully aligned with the American Counseling Association's accreditation standards and includes contributions by well-known and respected academics and practitioners. Based on an extensive review of course syllabi across CACREP-accredited programs, this book is organized to follow the way courses are typically taught and follows a consistent structure including pedagogical elements that help students learn. After a thorough examination of essential concepts and theories of life span development, the book moves through each stage of human growth and development to provide expert insight, short case studies, and practical applications to counseling. The full Instructor's package provides a useful set of tools, including a Respondus test bank, PowerPoint slides, and an Instructor's Manual. This book is the only text on human growth and development that emphasizes the key implications and applications for counselors, providing useful information and the insights of real experts in each subject area. Understand the developmental milestones at each life stage Appreciate clients' perspectives to better facilitate appropriate interventions Work more effectively with clients of any age, from toddlers to seniors Tailor your approach to meet the unique needs and abilities of each life stage As a counselor, you cannot approach a child's therapy the same way you approach an adult's. Even within each major category, each developmental stage includes a nuanced set of characteristics that, considered appropriately, will inform a more effective treatment plan. Human Development Across the Life Span is a comprehensive guide to understanding all of your clients, and providing the type of counseling that facilitates more positive outcomes. |
| development through lifespan: Work Across the Lifespan Boris Baltes, Cort W. Rudolph, Hannes Zacher, 2019-01-08 Work Across the Lifespan coalesces theoretical and empirical perspectives on aging and work. This volume examines a collection of human development theories that explain trajectories of change, including patterns of growth, maintenance, and decline across the adult lifespan. At its core, the lifespan perspective assumes a focus on aging as a continuous process of intraindividual change and goal-based self-regulation. In this text, the lifespan perspective serves as a lens for examining the complex relationship between aging and work. Integrating research from the fields of developmental psychology as well as industrial, work, and organizational psychology, this authoritative reference brings together the collective thinking of researchers who study work, careers, organizations, and aging. |
| development through lifespan: Lifespan Development and the Brain Paul B. Baltes, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Frank Rösler, 2006-06-19 The book focuses on the developmental analysis of the brain-culture-environment dynamic and argues that this dynamic is interactive and reciprocal. Brain and culture co-determine each other. As a whole, this book refutes any unidirectional conception of the brain-culture dynamic. Each is influenced by and modifies the other. To capture the ubiquitous reach and significance of the mutually dependent brain-culture system, the metaphor of biocultural co-constructivism is invoked. Distinguished researchers from cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology and developmental psychology review the evidence in their respective fields. A special focus of the book is its coverage of the entire human lifespan from infancy to old age. |
| development through lifespan: Personality Development Across the Lifespan Jule Specht, 2017-03-17 Personality Development across the Lifespan examines the development of personality characteristics from childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, adulthood, and old age. It provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives, methods, and empirical findings of personality and developmental psychology, also detailing insights on how individuals differ from each other, how they change during life, and how these changes relate to biological and environmental factors, including major life events, social relationships, and health. The book begins with chapters on personality development in different life phases before moving on to theoretical perspectives, the development of specific personality characteristics, and personality development in relation to different contexts, like close others, health, and culture. Final sections cover methods in research on the topic and the future directions of research in personality development. - Introduces and reviews the most important personality characteristics - Examines personality in relation to different contexts and how it is related to important life outcomes - Discusses patterns and sources of personality development |
| development through lifespan: Growth and Development Through the Lifespan Kathleen M. Thies, John F. Travers, 2005 |
| development through lifespan: Handbook of Life-Span Development Karen L. Fingerman, 2011 Print+CourseSmart |
| development through lifespan: Life-Span Development and Behavior Paul B. Baltes, David L. Featherman, Richard M. Lerner, 2014-02-04 This serial publication continues to review life-span research and theory in the behavioral and social sciences, particularly work done by psychologists and sociologists conducting programmatic research on current problems and refining theoretical positions. Each volume introduces excellent peer-reviewed empirical research into the field of life-span development while presenting interdisciplinary viewpoints on the topic. Often challenging accepted theories, this series is of great interest to developmental, personality, and social psychologists. |
| development through lifespan: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development Marc H. Bornstein, 2018-01-15 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. |
| development through lifespan: Lifespan Development Lumen Learning, Laura Overstreet, 2020-01-02 |
| development through lifespan: Executive Function Sandra A. Wiebe, Julia Karbach, 2017-07-28 Executive Function: Development Across the Life Span presents perspectives from leading researchers and theorists on the development of executive function from infancy to late adulthood and the factors that shape its growth and decline. Executive function is the set of higher-order cognitive processes involved in regulating attention, thoughts, and actions. Relative to other cognitive domains, its development is slow and decline begins early in late adulthood. As such, it is particularly sensitive to variations in environments and experiences, and there is growing evidence that it is susceptible to intervention – important because of its link to a wide range of important life outcomes. The volume is made up of four sections. It begins with an overview of executive function’s typical development across the lifespan, providing a foundation for the remainder of the volume. The second section presents insights into mechanisms of executive function, as provided by a variety of methodological approaches. The third and fourth sections review the current research evidence on specific factors that shape executive function’s development, focusing on normative (e.g., bilingualism, physical activity, cognitive training) and clinically relevant (e.g., substance use, neurodegenerative disease) developmental pathways. |
| development through lifespan: Exploring Lifespan Development Laura E. Berk, 2010 This shorter, essentials version of Berk's best-selling Development Through the Lifespan, 5/e, covers the same topics and contains the same number of chapters, but presents only the essential information with an exceptionally strong emphasis on applications. Exploring Lifespan Development includes all the features Berk's texts are known for: Engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural focus, rich examples, the most up-to-date research, and practical applications that help students relate the subject to their personal and professional lives. Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher, has refashioned her text to provide the core information in the field with an exceptionally strong emphasis on applications. Visually stunning, pedagogically balanced, and fully integrated, the Exploring edition has all the great features of Development Through the Lifespan, 5e, in an abbreviated form. The latest theories and findings in the field are made accessible to students in a manageable and relevant way. Berk's signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text's characters, who share their influential experiences and developmental milestones. Students are provided with an exceptionally clear and coherent understanding of the sequence and underlying processes of human development, emphasizing the interrelatedness of all domains--physical, cognitive, emotional, social--throughout the text narrative and in special features. Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest. Her voice comes through when speaking directly about issues students will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, social workers, and researchers. As members of a global and diverse human community, students are called to intelligently approach the responsibility of understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of both young and old. Berk presents the most important classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, coherent, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. Strengthening the connections among developmental domains and highlighting the application of theories and research to the real world, this text presents the most important scholarship in the changing field of human development. |
| development through lifespan: Looking Forward Through the Lifespan: Developmental Psychology Candida C Peterson, 2013-12-17 When a local context really makes the difference… The new edition of this original Australian text continues to offer the most balanced coverage of theory and research for Australian students and educators and appeals to students from many backgrounds. It covers the domains of development including neurological, cognitive, social, physical and personality. The text is organised chronologically by chapter. Within each chapter content is organised topically. This structure allows for a degree of flexibility and lecturers can choose the way they wish to approach the content, whether it is topically or chronologically. |
| development through lifespan: ISE Essentials of Life-Span Development John W. Santrock, 2021-03-02 |
| development through lifespan: Action and Self-Development Jochen Brandtstadter, Richard M. Lerner, 1999-08-24 This volume presents the reader with a stimulating rich tapestry of essays exploring the nature of action and intentionality, and discussing their role in human development. As the contributions make clear, action is an integrative concept that forms the bridge between our psychological, biological, and sociocultural worlds. Action is also integrative in the sense of entailing motivational, emotional, and cognitive systems, and this integration too is well represented in the chapters. Action is defined, and distinguished from behavior, according to its intentional quality. Thus, a constantly recurring theme in the volume involves the dialectic of action-intentionality, and specifically the questions of how and when these concepts are to be distinguished. For action theorists, action—as distinguished from behavior—constitutes the fundamental mechanism of human development. This commitment is detailed in several essays that explore the life-span implications of action. This timely volume will be must reading for all who want to learn about, or stay current with, contemporary action theoretical approaches to human development. – Willis F. Overton, Temple University The present volume advances the view that we cannot go far in understanding development over the life span without paying heed to self-reflective processes. In a reciprocal way, self-reflection links developmental change in the ways in which the person constructs his or her own development over the life span. Development, action, and intentionality exist, then, in an intimate relationship: As development forms the social and historical settings within which intentional activity is embedded, thus become indispensable categories for developmental theory and research. Due to their potential to integrate culture, history, and personality, action-theoretical concepts have made strong inroads in many areas of social and behavioral research. Within the field of developmental psychology, researchers have come to recognize that developmental patterns, and their variation across historical and social contexts, cannot easily be reduced to invariant laws. Instead, they reflect the agency of both the culture and the person. Issues of intentional self-development gain particular importance within the developmental settings of modernity. Under conditions of cultural acceleration, globalization, and pluralization of life forms, normative scripts and timetables of development have become blurred, and people are increasingly forced to take a planful, self-monitoring, and optimizing stance toward their own behavior and development. As will become evident throughout this ground-breaking book, an action perspective on development covers a broad spectrum of theoretical approaches. Concepts such as personal goals, personal projects, life themes, meaning, life planning, compensation, or intentional self-development have become the nuclei of innovative research programs. The chapters collected in this volume, by scholars on the forefront of action theory and research, provide an indication of the promise that these notions hold for life-span developmental psychology, motivation research, and research on aging. |
| development through lifespan: Life Span Motor Development Kathleen M. Haywood, Nancy Getchell, 2021-06-01 Life Span Motor Development, Seventh Edition With HKPropel Access, is a leading text for helping students examine and understand how interactions of the developing and maturing individual, the environment, and the task being performed bring about changes in a person’s movements. This model of constraints approach, combined with an unprecedented collection of video clips marking motor development milestones, facilitates an unmatched learning experience for the study of motor development across the life span. The seventh edition expands the tradition of making the student’s experience with motor development an interactive one. Related online learning tools delivered through HKPropel include more than 190 video clips marking motor development milestones to sharpen observation techniques, with interactive questions and 47 lab activities to facilitate critical thinking and hands-on application. The lab activities may be assigned and tracked by instructors through HKPropel, along with chapter quizzes (assessments) that are automatically graded to test comprehension of critical concepts. The text also contains several updates to keep pace with the changing field: Content related to physcial growth and development of the skeletal, muscle, and adipose systems is reorganized chronologically for a more logical progression. New material on developmental motor learning demonstrates the overlap between the disciplines of motor development and motor learning. New insights into motor competence help explain the relationship between skill development and physical fitness. The text helps students understand how maturational age and chronological age are distinct and how functional constraints affect motor skill development and learning. It shows how the four components of physical fitness—cardiorespiratory endurance, strength, flexibility, and body composition—interact to affect a person’s movements over the life span, and describes how relevant social, cultural, psychosocial, and cognitive influences can affect a person’s movements. This edition comes with 148 illustrations, 60 photos, and 25 tables—all in full color—to help explain concepts and to make the text more engaging for students. It also retains helpful learning aids including chapter objectives, a running glossary, key points, sidebars, and application questions throughout each chapter. Life Span Motor Development, Seventh Edition, embraces an interactive and practical approach to illustrate the most recent research in motor development. Students will come away with a firm understanding of the concepts and how they apply to real-world situations. Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is not included with this ebook but may be purchased separately. |
| development through lifespan: Life-span Development Leonie Sugarman, 2004-03-01 This thorough revision of the highly successful first edition of Life-Span Development offers the reader a wide-ranging and thought provoking account of human development throughout the lifespan. The lifespan approach emphasises that development does not stop when we cease to be adolescents but goes on throughout adulthood and into old age. In initial chapters Leonie Sugarman outlines the issues surrounding the notion of development and how it can be studied, including reviews of the work of key theorists Erikson, Levinson and Gould. She goes on to consider the different ways in which the life course can be construed: as a series of age-related stages; as a cumulative sequence; as a series of developmental tasks; as a series of key life events and transitions or as a narrative construction which creates a sense of dynamic continuity. A final chapter looks at how people cope, the resources that are available and the theoretical and practical issues regarding interventions to assist them in the process. New to this edition is increased coverage of the topical issue of successful ageing and a new chapter on the increasingly popular narrative approach to lifespan development. This edition is also more student-friendly with exercises in self-reflection that encourage the reader to look at the development of their own lives or those of their current or future clients. Boxed material highlighting major theories and clarifying concepts is also included. This book will be invaluable for students of developmental and occupational psychology and professionals in the fields of health management, education and social work. |
| development through lifespan: Development Through The Lifespan Laura E. Berk, 2022-06-24 Now published by SAGE! With its seamless integration of up-to-date research, strong multicultural and cross-cultural focus, and clear, engaging narrative, Development Through the Lifespan, by best-selling author Laura E. Berk, has established itself as the market’s leading text. Known for staying current, the fully updated Seventh Edition offers the latest, most relevant research and applications in the field of human development. New and compelling topics, rich examples, coupled with Berk’s signature storytelling style, makes this edition the most accessible and engaging text available to students today. Included with this title: LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more. |
| development through lifespan: Development Through the Lifespan , Books a la Carte Edition Laura E. Berk, 2017-01-11 |
| development through lifespan: Developmental Transitions Sarah Crafter, Rachel Maunder, Laura Soulsby, 2019-03-14 How can we make sense of change and stability through the lifespan of human development? What role does personal experience, our relationships with others, and historical and sociocultural contexts play in shaping these changes? This is the first book to offer an integrative overview of the range of developmental transitions which occur through the lifespan. Bringing together different theoretical and conceptual perspectives and a broad range of empirical research including quantitative and qualitative approaches, this book encompasses a range of complex transitional forms. Covering topics such as health transitions, transitions in friendships and romantic relationships, career transitions, and societal transitions, this book takes the reader beyond a focus on childhood and adolescence, to look at the whole lifespan. Reflecting a perspective that takes into account a sociocultural past and present, this book seeks to show how transitions can be viewed as both an experience of uncertainty and possibility. Transitions perform important functions and present psychosocial opportunities. Developmental Transitions is essential reading for all undergraduate and graduate students of developmental and cultural psychology and is also a valuable resource for academics and practitioner audiences interested in stability and change as people age. |
| development through lifespan: Lifespan Developmental Systems Ellen A. Skinner, Thomas Kindermann, Andrew Mashburn, 2019-05-09 Everything you always wanted to know about theories, meta-theories, methods, and interventions but didn’t realize you needed to ask. This innovative textbook takes advanced undergraduate and graduate students behind the curtain of standard developmental science, so they can begin to appreciate the generative value and methodological challenges of a lifespan developmental systems perspective. It envisions applied developmental science as focused on ways to use knowledge about human development to help solve societal problems in real-life contexts, and considers applied developmental research to be purpose driven, field based, community engaged, and oriented toward efforts to optimize development. Based on the authors’ more than 25 years of teaching, this text is designed to help researchers and their students intentionally create a cooperative learning community, full of arguments, doubts, and insights, that can facilitate their own internal paradigm shifts, one student at a time. With the aid of extensive online supplementary materials, students of developmental psychology as well as students in other psychological subdisciplines (such as industrial-organizational, social, and community psychology) and applied professions that rely on developmental training (such as education, social work, counseling, nursing, health care, and business) will find this to be an invaluable guidebook and toolbox for conceptualizing and studying applied problems from a lifespan developmental systems perspective. |
| development through lifespan: Handbook of Parenting and Child Development Across the Lifespan Matthew R. Sanders, Alina Morawska, 2018-12-06 This handbook presents the latest theories and findings on parenting, from the evolving roles and tasks of childrearing to insights from neuroscience, prevention science, and genetics. Chapters explore the various processes through which parents influence the lives of their children, as well as the effects of parenting on specific areas of child development, such as language, communication, cognition, emotion, sibling and peer relationships, schooling, and health. Chapters also explore the determinants of parenting, including consideration of biological factors, parental self-regulation and mental health, cultural and religious factors, and stressful and complex social conditions such as poverty, work-related separation, and divorce. In addition, the handbook provides evidence supporting the implementation of parenting programs such as prevention/early intervention and treatments for established issues. The handbook addresses the complementary role of universal and targeted parenting programs, the economic benefits of investment in parenting programs, and concludes with future directions for research and practice. Topics featured in the Handbook include: · The role of fathers in supporting children’s development. · Developmental disabilities and their effect on parenting and child development. · Child characteristics and their reciprocal effects on parenting. · Long-distance parenting and its impact on families. · The shifting dynamic of parenting and adult-child relationships. · The effects of trauma, such as natural disasters, war exposure, and forced displacement on parenting. The Handbook of Parenting and Child Development Across the Lifespan is an essential reference for researchers, graduate students, clinicians, and therapists and professionals in clinical child and school psychology, social work, pediatrics, developmental psychology, family studies, child and adolescent psychiatry, and special education. |
| development through lifespan: Development Through the Lifespan Laura E. Berk, 2014 Laura Berk's Development Through the Lifespan is relied upon in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional multicultural and cross-cultural focus, cutting-edge consideration of the interrelationships between heredity and environment, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship. This new edition continues to offer students research-based practical applications that they can relate to their personal and professional lives. Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher, has revised the text with new pedagogy, a heightened emphasis on the interplay between heredity and environment, and an enhanced focus on many social policy issues, while emphasizing the lifespan perspective throughout. The latest theories and findings in the field are made accessible to students in a manageable and relevant way. Berk's signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text's characters. Students are provided with an especially clear and coherent understanding of the sequence and underlying processes of human development, emphasizing the interrelatedness of all domains--physical, cognitive, emotional, social--throughout the text narrative and in special features. Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest. Her voice comes through when speaking directly about issues students will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, health care providers, social workers, and researchers. As members of a global and diverse human community, students are called to intelligently approach the responsibility of understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of both young and old. While carefully considering the complexities of human development, Berk presents classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based, real-world, cross-cultural, and multicultural examples. Strengthening the connections among developmental domains and of theory and research with applications, this edition's extensive revision brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of human development. Visit the Showcase Site to see sample chapters, get information on the supplements (including sample videos and on-line simulations), and much more. 0205968988 / 9780205968985 Development Through the Lifespan Plus NEW MyDevelopmentLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0205909744 / 9780205909742 NEW MyDevelopmentLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card -- for Laura E. Berk 0205957609 / 9780205957606 Development Through the Lifespan |
| development through lifespan: Functional Movement Development Across the Life Span Donna Joy Cech, Suzanne Tink Martin, 2011-09-06 Providing a solid foundation in the normal development of functional movement, Functional Movement Development Across the Life Span, 3rd Edition helps you recognize and understand movement disorders and effectively manage patients with abnormal motor function. It begins with coverage of basic theory, motor development and motor control, and evaluation of function, then discusses the body systems contributing to functional movement, and defines functional movement outcomes in terms of age, vital functions, posture and balance, locomotion, prehension, and health and illness. This edition includes more clinical examples and applications, and updates data relating to typical performance on standardized tests of balance. Written by physical therapy experts Donna J. Cech and Suzanne Tink Martin, this book provides evidence-based information and tools you need to understand functional movement and manage patients' functional skills throughout the life span. - Over 200 illustrations, tables, and special features clarify developmental concepts, address clinical implications, and summarize key points relating to clinical practice. - A focus on evidence-based information covers development changes across the life span and how they impact function. - A logical, easy-to-read format includes 15 chapters organized into three units covering basics, body systems, and age-related functional outcomes respectively. - Expanded integration of ICF (International Classification of Function) aligns learning and critical thinking with current health care models. - Additional clinical examples help you apply developmental information to clinical practice. - Expanded content on assessment of function now includes discussion of participation level standardized assessments and assessments of quality-of-life scales. - More concise information on the normal anatomy and physiology of each body system allows a sharper focus on development changes across the lifespan and how they impact function. |
| development through lifespan: Lifespan Development Denise Roberts Boyd, Helen L. Bee, Paul A Johnson, 2017-02-21 Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; REVEL does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with REVEL, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. Lifespan Development, 6ce provides strong applications, and integrated learning objectives and assessment. Students who want to know What does current research say? and Why is this important? will appreciate both the applied nature of this text and the clarity and rigor of the authors' presentation of current research. An exceptional pedagogical package that ties the textbook to online REVEL study tools complements the student-centered approach of the book and offers students the benefit of frequent self-assessment. |
| development through lifespan: Positive Psychology Across the Lifespan Piers Worth, 2022-02-22 Positive Psychology Across the Life Span provides an insight into how we are affected by the different stages of adult development and gives us the opportunity to change through choice rather than leaving change to chance. The science of positive psychology offers a wealth of research and evidence-based interventions and shares insights into which habits and behaviours contribute to how to live a flourishing life. This book aims to extend that knowledge by introducing and incorporating key aspects of existential and humanistic psychology and explores positive psychology with a lifespan perspective. It goes beyond theory to look at practical application, with insightful reflective questions. Whilst acknowledging the differences and disagreements between some of the key figures in the subject areas of the book, it seeks to highlight the areas where there is agreement and congruence which have been previously overlooked or ignored. The book will be essential reading for students and practitioners of positive psychology as well as other mental health professionals. |
| development through lifespan: Measuring Attachment Everett Waters, Brian E. Vaughn, Harriet Salatas Waters, 2021-05-10 This volume provides an in-depth examination of traditional and emerging measures of attachment behavior and representations from infancy to adulthood. Leading authorities share their expertise on the Strange Situation, the Attachment Q-set, Ainsworth's Maternal Sensitivity Scales, the Adult Attachment Interview, the Attachment Script Assessments, and the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System, as well as analogue and experimental methods. The book clarifies the conceptual and empirical underpinnings of the various measures and shows how they fit into a coherent developmental framework. Offering detailed discussions of key constructs such as attachment security, the secure base phenomenon, disorganization, and narrative structure, this is a valuable resource for both researchers and practitioners who use attachment assessments in their work. |
| development through lifespan: Career Development Across the Lifespan Grafton T. Eliason, Mark Lepore, Jeff L. Samide, John Patrick, 2019-08-01 This second edition of Career Counseling Across the Lifespan: Community, School, Higher Education, and Beyond is the latest volume in the Issues in Career Development Series, edited by Drs. Grafton Eliason, Mark Lepore, Jeff Samide, and John Patrick, from California University of Pennsylvania and Clarion University of Pennsylvania. The purpose of Career Development Across the Lifespan is to provide a broad and in-depth look at the field of career development as it applies to individuals involved in all areas of community counseling, school counseling, and higher education. The book will examine some of the field's major theories, themes, approaches, and newest models incorporating chapters from national and international career counseling experts. Specific emphasis is spent examining issues reflective of today's challenges in developing and maintaining a workforce that is diverse, flexible, and efficient. Readers will be provided with an action-based framework built on the best available research. This text book is truly the culmination of a decade’s work, compiling comprehensive studies from four previous volumes and updating key concepts in career counseling with the most contemporary theories and innovations. We examine three primary domains of career counseling throughout all of the developmental stages of the lifespan: community, schools K-12, and higher education. We include a specific focus on career history and theories, to prepare students for both the counseling environment and for national exams leading to certification and licensure, such as the (NCE) National Counseling Exam. We also include cutting edge research on contemporary topics, including such areas as: military careers, life after the military, individuals with disabilities or special needs, career counseling in our current socio-economic environment, and current technologies such as virtual counseling. In addition, we have added case studies and key terms as study guides at the end of each chapter. We are fortunate to include many recognized experts in the field of career counseling. Career Counseling Across the Lifespan: Community, School, Higher Education, and Beyond is a comprehensive text, written to address the broad needs of career counselors, educators, and students today. |
| development through lifespan: Understanding Human Development Ursula M. Staudinger, Ulman E.R. Lindenberger, 2012-12-06 K. Warner Schaie I am pleased to write a foreword for this interesting volume, particularly as over many years, I have had the privilege of interacting with the editors and a majority of the con tributors in various professional roles as a colleague, mentor, or research collaborator. The editors begin their introduction by asking why one would want to read yet another book on human development. They immediately answer their question by pointing out that many developmentally oriented texts and other treatises neglect the theoretical foundations of human development and fail to embed psychological constructs within the multidisciplinary context so essential to understanding development. This volume provides a positive remedy to past deficiencies in volumes on hu man development with a well-organized structure that leads the reader from a general introduction through the basic processes to methodological issues and the relation of developmental constructs to social context and biological infrastructure. This approach does not surprise. After all, the editors and most of the contributors at one time or an other had a connection to the Max Planck Institute of Human Development in Berlin, whether as students, junior scientists, or senior visitors. That institute, under the leader ship of Paul Baltes, has been instrumental in pursuing a systematic lifespan approach to the study of cognition and personality. Over the past two decades, it has influenced the careers of a generation of scientists who have advocated long-term studies of human development in an interdisciplinary context. |
| development through lifespan: Integrating Emotions and Cognition Throughout the Lifespan Gisela Labouvie-Vief, 2015-01-07 This book synthesizes the literature on emotional development and cognition across the lifespan. The book proposes a core language by which to describe positive and problematic developmental changes by recourse to a parsimonious set of core principles, such as elevations or declines in tension thresholds and their relation to the waxing and waning of the cognitive system over the life course. It integrates, similarly, the lifelong consequences of the positive or damaging aspects of the social milieu in fostering increases in tension thresholds with their advanced capacity for maintaining equilibrium and warding off stress versus a lowering of tension thresholds with disturbances of equilibrium maintenance and heightened susceptibility to stress and deregulation. |
| development through lifespan: Lifespan Development Sharleen L. Kato, 2023-02-16 Lifespan Development is designed to help your students understand human growth and development across the lifespan. The contents of this text show that even though not all people are alike, they do go through similar stages of development. Young children learn to walk, talk, spell, jump, and tell jokes. Teens learn to become more independent. Adults take on more responsibilities for themselves and others. Throughout the lifespan, people continue to develop and change physically, cognitively, socially, and emotionally. The developmental theories of Erikson, Piaget, Vygotsky, and Kohlberg are highlighted. The text also includes strategies that promote lifespan health and wellness. |
| development through lifespan: Journey Across the Life Span Elaine U Polan, Daphne R Taylor, 2019-01-16 Here’s just what you need to effectively care for your patients at any stage of life in today’s ever-changing world of health care. Elaine Polan and Daphne Taylor guide you through the life cycle—from conception to old age—with an emphasis on health promotion, maintenance, and restoration in clinical practice. |
| development through lifespan: Language Development Over the Lifespan Kees de Bot, Robert W. Schrauf, 2010-05-26 Language Development Over the Lifespan is a reference resource for those conducting research on language development and the aging process, as well as a supplementary textbook for courses in applied linguistics/bilingualism programs that focus on language attrition/aging and adult literacy development in second languages. It offers an integrative approach to language development that examines changes in language over a lifetime, organized by different theoretical perspectives, which are presented by well-known international scholars. |
| development through lifespan: The Growing Child Helen L. Bee, 1995 From the author of The Developing Child, this text covers similar ground, but this time in a chronological fashion. There are parallel chaptes on physical/cognitive development and social/personality development for each stage. It combines research and practice to create a cohesive look at child development, from conception through to adolescence. It includes special, high-interest features and learning aids, and its careful balance of theory, research and applications inspires readers to think about the material and their own lives. This book also includes a chapter on atypical development. |
| development through lifespan: Discovering the Lifespan Robert Stephen Feldman, Oriane Landry, 2016-04-01 NOTE: Before purchasing, check with your instructor to ensure you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, and registrations are not transferable. To register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products, you may also need a Course ID, which your instructor will provide. Used books, rentals, and purchases made outside of Pearson If purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson, the access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may not be included, may be incorrect, or may be previously redeemed. Check with the seller before completing your purchase. Discovering the Lifespan provides a broad overview of the field of human development and features a strong balance of research and application. In a unique departure from traditional lifespan development texts, each chapter is divided into three modules, and in turn, each module is divided into several smaller sections. Consequently, students encounter material in smaller, more manageable chunks that optimize learning. |
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| development through lifespan: The Lifespan Development of Writing Charles Bazerman, Arthur N. Applebee, Virginia Wise Berninger, Deborah Brandt, Steve Graham, Jill V. Jeffery, Sandra Murphy, Paul Kei Matsuda, Deborah Wells Rowe, Mary Schleppegrell, Kristen C. Wilcox, 2018 Presents the results of a four-year Spencer-funded project to synthesize what research says about writing development at different ages from multiple perspectives, including psychological, linguistic, sociocultural, and curricular-- |
| development through lifespan: Intersectionality and Context Across the Lifespan J. Maria Bermudez, 2021-06-18 Intersectionality and Context across the Lifespan: Readings for Human Development helps students increase their understanding of the diverse factors that affect development at various life stages. Readers learn how culture, gender, ability, religion, sexual identity, nationality and immigration status, socioeconomic status, and other factors work together to continually influence our individual identities and worldviews throughout our lives. The anthology progresses in step with the lifespan, presenting global and contextual perspectives from conception to end of life. Each chapter presents critical readings about a variety of individual and family development issues that affect the lifespan. Throughout, readers are encouraged and challenged to appreciate the diversity across and within cultures. The text examines the ways in which systems of privilege, power, and oppression shape developmental trajectories while also introducing students to critical social theories. Intersectionality and Context across the Lifespan is part of the Cognella Series on Families and Social Justice, a collection of textbooks that support core curriculum within family-related disciplines with emphasis on issues related to social justice, diversity, and equity. |
| development through lifespan: Experiencing the Lifespan Janet Belsky, 2009-10-23 This book explores the lifespan by combining research with a practicing psychologist's understanding of human development from infancy to old age. |
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