The Handbook of Life-Span Development, 2 Volume Set

by Lerner, Richard M.; Overton, Willis F.; Freund, Alexandra M.; Lamb, Michael E.

• ISBN13: 9780470390139
• ISBN10: 0470390131
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-02
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing many more of these phenomenon as more profitably studied over time and in relation to other processes. This two-volume set of Lifespan Development presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars in the 21st Century. Social workers, counselors and public health workers will receive coverage of the biological and cognitive as well as the social and emotional aspects of human change across the lifespan.

Author Biography

Richard M. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. A developmental psychologist, he has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society. Lerner is the author or editor of 65 books and more than 450 scholarly articles and chapters.

Dr. Willis (Bill) F. Overton is the Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton Professor of Psychology at?Temple University?in?Philadelphia, PA. ?Dr. Overton has been Editor of Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development; Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology, and board member of many developmental and cognitive-developmental journals.

Michael E. Lamb is Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge and previously served as Head of the Section on Social and Emotional Development at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development near Washington DC. He He has written several hundred professional publications on social and emotional development, especially in infancy and early childhood.

Alexandra M. Freund is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Zurich.?Together with Paul B. Baltes in?Berlin at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, she started and co-directed the project "Personal Goals in Lifespan Development" in 2002-2003. Her recent publications are primarily concerned with the development of motivational process in adulthood.

Table of Contents

Cognition, Biology, and Methods

Handbook Preface Richard Tufts University

Life Span: Concepts and Issues

Emphasizing Intraindividual Variability in the Study of Development over the Life Span

What Life-Span Data do we really Need

Brain Development: An Overview

Biology, Evolution and Psychological Development

The Dynamic Development of Thinking, Feeling and Acting over the Life Span

Structure and Process in Life-Span Cognitive Development

Fluid Cognitive Abilities and General Intelligence: A Life-Span Neuroscience Perspective

Memory Development across the Lifespan

The Development of Mental Processing

The Development of Representation and Concepts Ulrich Müller University of Victoria

The Development of Deductive Reasoning across the Life Span

Development of Executive Function across the Life Span

Language Development

Self-Regulation: The Integration of Cognition and Emotion

The Development of Morality: Reasoning, Emotions, and Resistance

The Development of Social Understanding: A Relational Perspective

The Emergence of Consciousness and Its Role in Human Development

The Development of Knowing

Spatial Development

Gesturing Across the Life Span

Developmental Psychopathology Self, Embodiment, Meaning: A Holistic-Systems Perspective

The Meaning of Wisdom and its Development throughout Life

Thriving Across the Life Span

Social and Emotional Development

Handbook Preface

Introduction: Social and Emotional Development across the Life Span

Neurobiological Bases of Social Behavior across the Life Span

The Development of Emotion Regulation: A Neuropsychological Perspective

Dynamic Integration of Emotion and Cognition: Equilibrium Regulation and Development

Self-Regulation across the Life Span

Self and Identity across the Life Span

Temperament and Personality through the Life Span

Life-Span Perspectives on Positive Personality Development in Adulthood and Old Age

Coping across the Life Span

Gendered Behavior across the Life Span

Intimate Relationships across the Life Span

Convoys of Social Relations: Integrating Life-Span and Life-Course Perspectives

Achievement Motives and Goals: A Developmental Analysis

Developmental Psychopathology

Developing Civic Engagement within a Civic Context

Religious and Spiritual Development across the Life Span: A Behavioral and Social Science Perspective

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