
Developing Minds
Challenge And Continuity Across The Lifespan
Basic Books (Publisher)
Published on 16. June 1993
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-465-01037-0 (ISBN)
Description
Most models of human development end abruptly with adolescence. But, according to the internationally renowned theorist and researcher Michael Rutter, we continue to mature throughout our life span. In this volume, Michael Rutter and Marjorie Rutter chart out in nontechnical language a comprehensive and vivid map of human growth from cradle to grave.Arguing that there are discontinuities as well as continuities to the growth process, they trace how basic aspects of psychological functioning (such as emotion and cognition) change over the course of life. The volume is organized around themes,anger and aggression, social relationships, intelligence and language,rather than specific age periods. Thus we see the parallels between life crises and challenges at different times of life (such as adolescence and old age). This original approach also reveals the full significance of both resilient and maladaptive responses to stress and adversity.The authors thoroughly mine decades of developmental research to transmute findings into brilliant nuggets of clinical wisdom. Covering all factors,genetic, social, historical, cognitive, biological,that shape human development, this pioneering book explores and explains not only the universal aspects of maturation but also how we each end up on our individual paths.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
789 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-01037-0 (9780465010370)
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Persons
Michael Rutter, M.D., F.R.S. is professor of child psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry (U.K.) and honourary directory of the Medical Research Child Psychiatry Unit. He is also the author of Helping Troubled Children and Maternal Deprivation Reassessed.Marjorie Rutter, S.R.N., is a clinical nurse specialist and postgraduate teacher in family planning, infertility, and psychosexual counseling in London.
Content
* Concepts of Development * Why are People So Different from One Another? * Change and Continuity: Some Developmental Processes * The Growth of Social Relationships * Anxiety and Aggression: Fears and Delinquency * The Growth of Intelligence and of Language * Adolescence: Sexuality, Self-image and Depression * Adulthood: Marriage, Careers and Parenting * Mid-life Transitions and Old Age * Epilogue: Transitions and Turning-points: Continuities and Discontinuities