A Critical Approach to Human Growth and Development
Published on 25. April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-230-24902-8 (ISBN)
Description
What does it mean to be human? This critical text from a well-respected author captures and interrogates the many models which have been developed to explore and explain human behaviour. Informed by sociological, psychological and biological perspectives, the book plots the key stages of the life course from childhood through to older age.
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Edition
2014
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-24902-8 (9780230249028)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-01548-8
Schweitzer Classification
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Paula Nicolson
A Critical Approach to Human Growth and Development
E-Book
04/2014
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€38.49
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Person
Paula Nicolson is Professor of Critical Social and Health Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. Her most recent books are Postnatal Depression (Wiley 2001) and Gender, Power and Organisation (Routledge, 1996).
Content
Introduction .- PART I: THEORIES OF HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT.- 1. 'Nature' versus 'Nurture': A Matter of Choice?.- 2. The Life Span: Interdisciplinary and Critical Perspectives .- 3. Attachment, Separation and Loss: Themes in human growth and development .- 4. From Theory to Reflective-Relational Practice .- PART II: A MATERIAL-DISCURSIVE-INTRA-PSYCHIC APPROACH.- 5. Infancy and Early Childhood .- 6. Older Childhood .- 7. Adolescence .- 8. Young Adulthood .- 9. Mid-Life .- 10. Older Age .- Afterword.