Concepts and Theories of Human Development

Concepts and Theories of Human Development

Author: Richard M. Lerner

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 1144

ISBN-13: 1135681880

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A classic in the field, this third edition will continue to be the book of choice for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses in theories of human development in departments of psychology and human development. This volume has been substantially revised with an eye toward supporting applied developmental science and the developmental systems perspectives. Since the publication of the second edition, developmental systems theories have taken center stage in contemporary developmental science and have provided compelling alternatives to reductionist theoretical accounts having either a nature or nurture emphasis. As a consequence, a developmental systems orientation frames the presentation in this edition. This new edition has been expanded substantially in comparison to the second edition. Special features include: * A separate chapter focuses on the historical roots of concepts and theories of human development, on philosophical models of development, and on developmental contextualism. * Two new chapters surrounding the discussion of developmental contextualism--one on developmental systems theories wherein several exemplars of such models are discussed and a corresponding chapter wherein key instances of such theories--life span, life course, bioecological, and action theoretical ones--are presented. * A new chapter on cognition and development is included, contrasting systems' approaches to cognitive development with neo-nativist perspectives. * A more differentiated treatment of nature-oriented theories of development is provided. There are separate chapters on behavior genetics, the controversy surrounding the study of the heritability of intelligence, work on the instinctual theory of Konrad Lorenz, and a new chapter on sociobiology. * A new chapter concentrates on applied developmental science.


Human Development Across the Life Span

Human Development Across the Life Span

Author: Fergus P. Hughes

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13:

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A thorough, comprehensive, topical introduction to human development. In rejecting classic "age" and "stage" treatments of human development, these authors take an approach that better shows the continuity of the developmental process. They emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of the field by integrating pertinent ideas from such diverse sources as sociology, biology, and cultural anthropology. This edition embraces more discussion of infancy, greater coverage of the adult, and a more thorough look at the role of women in a person's growth and development than the previous edition.


Pathways of Human Development

Pathways of Human Development

Author: Jay A. Mancini

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2009-08-20

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0739136887

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Pathways of Human Development uses theoretical perspectives from developmental, social, and behavioral sciences to examine the many ways that individuals, families, and communities intersect and interface. Focusing on the impact of change on human development, including its antecedents, processes, and consequences, the chapters examine a range of topics such as health and adaptation; social anxiety disorder; protective factors and risk behaviors; parent-child relationships; adolescent sexuality; intergenerational relationships; family stress and adaptation; and community resilience. By extending human development theorizing across these pivotal life-changing issues, this volume offers a comprehensive map of the trajectories of development among individuals, families, and communities.


The Process of Human Development

The Process of Human Development

Author: Clara Shaw Schuster

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 1002

ISBN-13:

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A guide to human biological and psychological development from conception to late adulthood that uses a holistic approach to acknowledge individuality, showing that not all "normal" people develop in exactly the same way.


Human Development Depends What Factors

Human Development Depends What Factors

Author: Johnny Ch LOK

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-04-19

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 9781095245064

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Chapter TwoStrategy solves poverty on child education developmentPoverty will affect a child's psychological and physical life development an education outcomes of life both directly and indirectly. However, nowadays, school readiness, or the child's ability to use and profit from school, has been recognized as playing a unique role in escape from poverty . Thus, it is a critical element, but needs to be supported by many other components of a poverty strategy, such as of improved opportunity structures and empowerment of families. Thus, I ensure poverty will affect child growth development and educational outcomes. It brings this question: How to improve child growth development and educational outcomes for families in poverty? I shall recommend policy how to solve to improve child development and education for future research, programs and policies to reduce the negative consequences of poverty.What does poverty mean? The first is whether poverty should be defined in economic terms, or should be defined in economic terms, or as part of a social disadvantage. The economic definition of poverty is typically based on income measures, will the absolute poverty line calculated as the food expenditure necessary to meet dietary needs. However, poor means lacking not only material assets and health , but also respecting on capabilities, such as social belonging, cultural identity aspects. Thus, these factors which prevent groups on categories of people from moving out of poverty. Experiences of including material and want of food, housing and shelters, live. The analytic model experiences of ill-being including material lack and want of food, housing and shelter, livelihood, assets and money., hunger , pair and discomfort and poverty of time. I feel the explanation mobility out of poverty , consists of interaction between two sets of factors : The first factor is that changes in the opportunity structure, consisting of the dominant institutional climate and social structures within which disadvantages to work to advance their interests and the second factor is that changes in the capabilities of poor individuals or groups to take purposeful actions,. Child development refers to the interdependent social emotional functioning, which depend on the child's physical well-being, the family context and the larger social network. Educational outcomes include school readiness, educational achievements and years of schooling completed. School readiness means to skills children need to profit from the educational experiences of formal schooling. It is skills that affect children's ability to learn in school.