Handbook of Adult Development

by Demick, Jack; Andreoletti, Carrie

• ISBN13: 9780306467585
• ISBN10: 0306467585
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

The Handbook of Adult Development is an overview of the major theories and research in the field. Included are sections on introductory theory and method, biocognitive development in adulthood, and social development in adulthood, in addition to an introduction and epilogue by the editors. This content will be useful for years to come. By soliciting contributions from current leading theoreticians and researchers in the field of adult development, the volume will present state-of-the-art theory and research on this burgeoning subfield of developmental psychology. Professionals, clinicians, researchers, and academics in the larger field of development psychology will find the book an invaluable resource, as will graduate students in the same field.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
Jack Demick
Carrie Andreoletti
I. INTRODUCTORY THEORY AND METHOD	1	(100)
Theory in Adult Development: The New Paradigm and the Problem of Direction	3	(20)
Judith Stevens-Long
Greg Michaud
Learning in Adulthood	23	(20)
William J. Hoyer
Dayna R. Touron
Developmental Change in Adulthood	43	(20)
David Moshman
Adult Development: The Holistic, Developmental, and Systems-Oriented Perspective	63	(22)
Seymour Wapner
Jack Demick
Research Methods in Adult Development	85	(16)
John C. Cavanaugh
Susan Krauss Whitbourne
II. BIOCOGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN ADULTHOOD	101	(268)
Multiple Perspectives on the Development of Adult Intelligence	103	(18)
Cynthia A. Berg
Robert J. Sternberg
Age-Related Changes in Memory	121	(10)
Margaret G. O'Connor
Edith F. Kaplan
The Ontogeny of Wisdom in Its Variations	131	(22)
Deirdre Kramer
Psychological Approaches to Wisdom and Its Development	153	(16)
Dorothy J. Shedlock
Steven W. Cornelius
Reflective Thinking in Adulthood: Emergence, Development, and Variation	169	(30)
Kurt W. Fischer
Ellen Pruyne
Four Postformal Stages	199	(22)
Michael Lamport Commons
Francis A. Richards
Postformal Thought and Adult Development: Living in Balance	221	(18)
Jan D. Sinnott
Developmental Trajectories and Creative Work in Late Life	239	(18)
Laura Tahir
Howard E. Gruber
The Development of Possible Selves During Adulthood	257	(14)
Jane Allin Bybee
Yvonne V. Wells
The Good Life: A Longitudinal Study of Adult Value Reasoning	271	(30)
Cheryl Armon
Theo Linda Dawson
Moral Metacognition in Adolescence and Adulthood	301	(28)
Dawn E. Schrader
Protest, Collaboration, and Creation of Alternative Models: Women's Health Activists Using the Internet	329	(22)
Alice LoCicero
Gender Differences in Intellectual and Moral Development? The Evidence that Refutes the Claim	351	(18)
Mary M. Brabeck
Erika L. Shore
III.SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN ADULTHOOD	369	(230)
Attachment Theory and Research: Contributions for Understanding Late Adolescent and Young Adult Development	371	(20)
Maureen E. Kenny
Catherine E. Barton
Adult Development and Parenthood: A Social-Cognitive Perspective	391	(26)
Sandra T. Azar
Superwomen Raising Superdaughters: Whatever Happened to Black Girlhood?	417	(14)
Yvonne V. Wells
Revisions: Processes of Development in Midlife Women	431	(12)
Ruthellen Josselson
Eldercare and Personality Development in Middle Age	443	(16)
Alison H. Climo
Abigail J. Stewart
Grandparent--Grandchild Relationships and the Life Course Perspective	459	(16)
Laura Hess Brown
Paul A. Roodin
``Roots that Clutch'': What Adoption and Foster Care Can Tell Us About Adult Development	475	(18)
Jack Demick
Swords into Plowshares: The Recovery Ethics of Destructive Adult Development	493	(16)
Carl Goldberg
Discursive Practices and Their Interpretation in the Psychology of Religious Development: From Constructivist Canons to Constructivist Alternatives	509	(24)
James M. Day
Deborah J. Youngman
Adult Development and the Practice of Psychotherapy	533	(32)
Michael Basseches
Executive Development as Adult Development	565	(20)
Otto E. Laske
Community Service and Adult Development	585	(14)
Daniel Hart
Nancy Southerland
Robert Atkins
Epilogue	599	(14)
Jack Demick
Carrie Andreoletti
Index	613