Handbook of adult development
By: edited by Jack Demick and Carrie Andreoletti.
Contributors: Demick, Jack.; Andreoletti, Carrie, 1967-
Series: The Plenum series in adult development and aging
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 627
Subjects: Adulthood -- Psychological aspects; Adulthood -- Social aspects; Aging -- Psychological aspects; Developmental psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Jack Demick, -- Carrie Andreoletti -- I. Introductory theory and method; title: Theory in adult development: the new paradigm and the problem of direction -- Judith Stevens-Long, -- Greg Michaud; title: Learning in adulthood -- William J. Hoyer, -- Dayna R. Touron; title: Developmental change in adulthood -- David Moshman; title: Adult development: the holistic, developmental, and systems-oriented perspective -- Seymour Wapner, -- Jack Demick; title: Research methods in adult development -- John C. Cavanaugh, -- Susan Krauss Whitbourne -- II. Biocognitive development in adulthood; title: Multiple perpsectives on the development of adult intelligence -- Cynthia A. Berg, -- Robert J. Sternberg; title: Age-related changes in memory -- Margaret G. O'Connor, -- Edith F. Kaplan; title: Ontogeny of wisdom in its variations -- Deirdre Kramer; title: Psychological approaches to wisdom and its development -- Dorothy J. Shedlock, -- Steven W. Cornelius; title: Reflective thinking in adulthood: emergence, development, and variation -- Kurt W. Fischer, -- Ellen Pruyne; title: Four postformal stages -- Michael Lamport Commons, -- Francis A. Richards; title: Postformal thought and adult development: living in balance -- Jan D. Sinnott; title: Developmental trajectories and creative work in late life -- Laura Tahir, -- Howard E. Gruber; title: Development of possible selves during adulthood -- Jane Allin Bybee, -- Yvonne V. Wells; title: Good life: a longitudinal study of adult value reasoning -- Cheryl Armon, -- Theo Linda Dawson; title: Moral metacognition in adolescence and adulthood -- Dawn E. Schrader; title: Protest, collaboration, and creation of alternative models: women's health activists using the Internet -- Alice LoCicero; title: Gender differences in intellectual and moral development? The evidence that refutes the claim -- Mary M. Brabeck, -- Erika L. Shore -- III. Social development in adulthood; title: Attachment theory and research: contributions for understanding late adolescent and young adult development -- Maureen E. Kenny, -- Catherine E. Barton; title: Adult development and parenthood: a social-cognitive perspective -- Sandra T. Azar; title: Superwomen raising superdaughters: whatever happened to black girlhood? -- Yvonne V. Wells; title: Revisions: processes of development in midlife women -- Ruthellen Josselson; title: Eldercare and personality development in middle age -- Alison H. Climo, -- Abigail J. Stewart; title: Grandparent-grandchild relationships and the life course perspective -- Laura Hess Brown, -- Paul A. Roodin; title: "Roots that clutch": what adoption and foster care can tell us about adult development -- Jack Demick; title: Swords into plowshares: the recovery ethics of destructive adult development -- Carl Goldberg; title: Discursive practices and their interpretation in the psychology of religious development: from constructivist canons to constructivist alternatives -- James M. Day, -- Deborah J. Youngman; title: Adult development and the practice of psychotherapy -- Michael Basseches; title: Executive development as adult development -- Otto E. Laske; title: Community service and adult development-- Daniel Hart,-- Nancy Southerland,-- Robert Atkins-- Epilogue /-- Jack Demick,-- Carrie Andreoletti.