Datan / Ginsberg Life-Span Developmental Psychology

Normative Life Crises
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-6604-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Web PDF

Life-Span Developmental Psychology: Normative Life Crises is a compilation of papers that deals with various points of view between the academic perspective - studies in developmental psychology and applied perspective - and the practical efforts of social workers to help individual clients. Part I discusses normative life crises from the two perspectives that include human behavior theory in social work education. This part also includes an interdisciplinary approach covering developmental, social, sociological, economic, and psychological fields. Part II covers the normative life crises in individual development such as discussions on death, ego development, and a practioner's response on models of ego development. The book also discusses an abstract model versus an actual individual experience in dealing with crises, as well as the meanings of adaptation and survival during old age. Part III presents the normative life crises in the family circle covering topics such as parenthood, sex roles, depression, widowhood, and an example of situational stress. Part IV deals with the normative life crises and the social system, including socialization, life course, changing work cycles, and public policy on death. This book will prove valuable for psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, social workers, and behavioral scientists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Datan, Nancy

Ginsberg, Leon H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Life-Span Developmental Psychology: Normative Life Crises;4
3;Copyright Page
;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Contributors;3
6;List of Contributors;12
7;Preface;14
8;Acknowledgments;18
9;PART I. NORMATIVE LIFE CRISES: ACADEMIC AND APPLIED PERSPECTIVES;20
9.1;CHAPTER 1. Normative Life Crises: Academic Perspectives;22
9.1.1;ABSTRACT;22
9.1.2;I. Introduction;23
9.1.3;II. Academic and Applied Perspectives: The Uneasy Interface;24
9.1.4;III. Temporal Constraints: A Lesson from Practitioners;25
9.1.5;IV. Contextual Constraints: Perspectives from Other Disciplines;26
9.1.6;V. From Conference to Proceedings;27
9.1.7;REFERENCES;29
9.2;CHAPTER 2. Normative Life Crises:Applied Perspectives;30
9.2.1;ABSTRACT;30
9.2.2;I. Human Behavior Theory in Social Work Education;31
9.2.3;II. Life-Span Theory and the Social Work Tradition;34
10;PART II. NORMATIVE LIFE CRISES IN INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT;36
10.1;CHAPTER 3. Is Death a Life Crisis? On the Confrontation with Death in Theory and Practice;38
10.1.1;ABSTRACT;38
10.1.2;I. Purpose and Scope;38
10.1.3;II. Death: Some Definitions and Interpretations;41
10.1.4;III. Do We Die in Stages?;56
10.1.5;IV. Death in Theory and Practice: Selected Problems;65
10.1.6;REFERENCES;68
10.2;CHAPTER 4. Ego Development and Preferential Judgment in Life-Span Perspective;70
10.2.1;ABSTRACT;70
10.2.2;I. Introduction;70
10.2.3;II. A Critical Evaluation of Life-Span Ego Theories;71
10.2.4;III. Metatheory for a Theory of Ego Development;74
10.2.5;IV. Stages of Ego Development;81
10.2.6;V. An Illustrative Empirical Evaluation;95
10.2.7;VI. Discussion of Selected Issues;96
10.2.8;VII. Summary Characteristics of the Proposed Scheme of Ego Development;103
10.2.9;REFERENCES;104
10.3;CHAPTER 5. Formal Models of Ego Development: A Practitioner's Response;108
10.3.1;ABSTRACT;108
10.3.2;I. Overview of Selected Issues;108
10.3.3;II. Development: An Open-Ended Process;111
10.3.4;III. Crisis Theory;113
10.3.5;IV. Whither Theories of Ego Development and the Practitioner?;114
10.3.6;V. Conclusion;117
10.3.7;REFERENCES;117
10.4;CHAPTER 6. Adult Life Crises: A Dialectic Interpretation of Development;118
10.4.1;ABSTRACT;118
10.4.2;I. Introduction;118
10.4.3;II. Contradictions and Crises in Adult Life;122
10.4.4;III. Conclusions;142
10.4.5;REFERENCES;146
10.5;CHAPTER 7. Crises: An Abstract Model versus Individual Experience;148
10.5.1;ABSTRACT;148
10.5.2;REFERENCES;153
10.6;CHAPTER 8. Adaptive Processes in Late Life;154
10.6.1;ABSTRACT;154
10.6.2;I On the Nature of Crisis;158
10.6.3;II. A Framework for Looking at Hypotheses Relevant to Discriminating between Successful and Unsuccessful Adaptation;161
10.6.4;III. Empirical Illustrations of the Predictive Framework;170
10.6.5;REFERENCES;176
10.7;CHAPTER 9. Adaptation and Survival: New Meanings in Old Age;180
10.7.1;ABSTRACT;180
11;PART III. NORMATIVE LIFE CRISIS IN THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE;184
11.1;CHAPTER 10. Parenthood: A Key to the Comparative Study of the Life Cycle;186
11.1.1;ABSTRACT;186
11.1.2;I. Adulthood and Parenthood: Neglected Topics in Psychology;186
11.1.3;II. Sex Differences and the Parental Emergency;195
11.1.4;III. The Normal Unisex of Later Life;199
11.1.5;IV. New Life Styles and the Parental Imperative;201
11.1.6;REFERENCES;203
11.2;CHAPTER 11. The Further Evolution of the Parental Imperative;204
11.2.1;ABSTRACT;204
11.2.2;I. The Parental Imperative: Directions for Future Change;205
11.2.3;II. The Parental Imperative: The Limits of Explanation;206
11.2.4;REFERENCES;208
11.3;CHAPTER 12. Sex Roles and Depression;210
11.3.1;ABSTRACT;210
11.3.2;I. Introduction;210
11.3.3;II. Background and Methods;211
11.3.4;III. Sex Differences in Depression;213
11.3.5;IV. Disenchantment with Homemaking;215
11.3.6;V. Occupational Strains and Depression;220
11.3.7;VI. Summary and Conclusions;225
11.3.8;REFERENCES;225
11.4;CHAPTER 13. Situational Stress: A Hopi Example
;228
11.4.1;ABSTRACT;228
11.4.2;I. Sex Roles and Depression: Cross-Cultural Findings;229
11.4.3;II. Hopi Women and Stress;229
11.4.4;III. Stress and Depression;232
11.4.5;IV. Stress and the Life Cycle;233
11.4.6;REFERENCES;234
11.5;CHAPTER 14. Widowhood: Societal Factors in Life-Span Disruptions and Alternatives
;236
11.5.1;ABSTRACT;236
11.5.2;I. Widowhood;237
11.5.3;II. Widowhood in the Lives of Women.;238
11.5.4;III. Social Roles of Women in Modern Societies;241
11.5.5;IV. Social Roles in the Lives of Widows in Modern Societies;246
11.5.6;V. Summary and Conclusions;251
11.5.7;REFERENCES;252
12;PART IV.NORMATIVE LIFE CRISES AND THE SOCIAL SYSTEM;254
12.1;CHAPTER 15. Adult Socialization: Ambiguity and Adult Life Crises;256
12.1.1;ABSTRACT;256
12.1.2;I. Adult Socialization;256
12.1.3;II. Social Learning Approach to Adult Socialization;257
12.1.4;III. Anticipatory Socialization;258
12.1.5;IV. Adult Life Crises;261
12.1.6;V. Conclusion;267
12.1.7;REFERENCES;267
12.2;CHAPTER 16. A Clinical Approach to the Theoretical
Constructs of Failure and Normality;272
12.2.1;ABSTRACT;272
12.2.2;REFERENCES;278
12.3;CHAPTER 17. The Life Course, Age Grading, and Age-Linked Demands for Decision Making;280
12.3.1;ABSTRACT;280
12.3.2;I. The Life Course;281
12.3.3;II. Age Grading;282
12.3.4;III. Age-Related Demands for Decision Making;292
12.3.5;IV. Turning Points in the Life Course;294
12.3.6;V. Conclusion;296
12.3.7;REFERENCES;296
12.4;CHAPTER 18. The Changing Life Cycle of Work;298
12.4.1;ABSTRACT;298
12.4.2;I. Introduction;298
12.4.3;II. Hours and Income, 1870 and 1970;299
12.4.4;III. The Changing Work Cycle and Worker Dissatisfaction;301
12.4.5;IV. Some Speculation about the Future;302
12.4.6;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;304
12.4.7;REFERENCES;304
12.5;CHAPTER 19. Accommodating Old People in Society: Examples from Appalachia and New Orleans;306
12.5.1;ABSTRACT;306
12.5.2;I. The Societal Perspective;307
12.5.3;II. Retirement to the Porch;309
12.5.4;III. Accommodation of the Old in Urban Settings;312
12.5.5;IV. Accommodating Old People in Society;314
12.5.6;REFERENCES;316
12.6;CHAPTER 20. Death and Public Policy: A Research Inquiry;318
12.6.1;ABSTRACT;318
12.6.2;I. Background of the Problem;319
12.6.3;II. Public Policy and Death: Needs of Future Research;321
12.6.4;REFERENCES;325
12.7;Subject Index;328