Developmental psychology
Published on 9. July 2009
Book
640 pages
978-1-919895-15-4 (ISBN)
Description
This Second Edition provides a theory-driven approach to understanding human development from two perspectives - the psychoanalytic and the cognitive. These two perspectives, which form the first sections of the book, complement one another. The third section of the book brings together thoughts on the South African context and the impact it has on development. The book is a broad and integrated introduction to the subject for undergraduates, postgraduates and health professionals.
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Edition
2nd ed
Language
English
Place of publication
Cape Town
South Africa
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-919895-15-4 (9781919895154)
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Content
Psychoanalytic approaches to development and personality: An introduction to psychoanalytic thought; Freud's psychoanalytic theory of development and personality; Klein's object relations theory of development and personality; Fairbairn's contributions to Object relations theory; Wilfred Bion: Thinking, feeling and the search for truth; Donald Winnicott; Kernberg's theory of normal and pathological development; Heinz Kohut: self psychology; attachment theory; Jung's analytic theory of the development of personality; Lacan's mirror stage; Erikson's psychosocial stages of development. Cognitive development: Introduction to cognitive development; Piaget's constructivist theory of cognitive development; intellectual development; memory development; language development; Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning; evolutionary development; contributions of cognitive science approaches to cognitive developmental psychology; Vygotsky's theory of the development of cultural tools. Psychosocial and socio-political contexts of development: Developmental psychology: critiques and contextual considerations; Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory of development; violent crime and human development in South Africa; the effects of trauma on child development: children in South Africa; critical issues in developmental psychology; race, culture, and psychological theory; gender identity formation; theory and South African developmental psychology.