- Table View
- List View
Life Skills: Training Promoting Health and Personal Development
by Gilbert J. BotvinThe material in this Student Guide is for the third year of a program designed to help live a happy, healthy and productive life. We live in a complex and challenging world. To succeed in this world and effectively deal with the many problems facing us requires a specific set of skills. The program was developed by Dr. Gilbert J. Botvin, a psychologist at Cornell University, to provide an organized way for all middle and junior high school students to learn these important skills. Dr. Botvin discovered that students who received the LifeSkills Training program not only were better prepared to deal with the challenges of life, but were less likely to smoke, drink, or use drugs. This is an exciting new breakthrough which not only prevents tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse, but teaches the knowledge and skills necessary to Increase self-esteem, ability to make decisions and solve problems, Communicate effectively, Avoid misunderstandings, Manage anxiety, Make new friends, Stand up for your rights, Say "no" to unfair requests, Resist advertising pressures, Resist pressure to use drugs.
Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health: Can Kids Be Taught to Master Life? (Routledge Focus on Mental Health)
by Ole Jacob MadsenCan school teach us to master life? This book confronts what the author sees as an ongoing trend in many Western democracies where citizens are increasingly being held accountable for their health and happiness. The author believes that the introduction of life skills in school shows a tendency to place more responsibility on the individual rather than address fundamental societal flaws that really should be solved politically. It examines how such responsibility to psychologically deal with these problems affects our mental health and quality of life. This book questions the fundamentals of the life mastery curriculum where we might be risking the creation of just another arena where children have to perform, challenging readers to evaluate more closely the premises, consequences and limitations of life mastery. The book, one of the first to question ‘life mastery’ as an achievable goal with critical reviews of the 21st century skills movement, will be of interest to psychologists, school counsellors, teachers, students, politicians, and any reader evaluating school curriculums in relation to the decline in youth and adolescent mental health.
Life Skills Education for Youth: Critical Perspectives (Young People and Learning Processes in School and Everyday Life #5)
by Joan DeJaeghere Erin Murphy-GrahamThis open access volume critically reviews a diverse body of scholarship and practice that informs the conceptualization, curriculum, teaching and measurement of life skills in education settings around the world. It discusses life skills as they are implemented in schools and non-formal education, providing both qualitative and quantitative evidence of when, with whom, and how life skills do or do not impact young women’s and men’s lives in various contexts. Specifically, it examines the nature and importance of life skills, and how they are taught. It looks at the synergies and differences between life skills educational programmes and the way in which they promote social and emotional learning, vocational/employment education, and health and sexuality education. Finally, it explores how life skills may be better incorporated into education and how such education can address structures and relations of power to help youth achieve desired future outcomes, and goals set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Life skills education has gained considerable attention by education policymakers, researchers and educators as being the sine qua non for later achievements in life. It is nearly ubiquitous in global and national education policies, including the SDGs, because life skills are regarded as essential for a diverse set of purposes: reducing poverty, achieving gender equality, promoting economic growth, addressing climate change, fostering peace and global citizenship, and creating sustainable and healthy communities. Yet, to achieve these broad goals, questions persist as to which life skills are important, who needs to learn them, how they can be taught, and how they are best measured. This book addresses these questions.
Life Skills for Wellbeing and Success: A Psychological Perspective
by Alka WadkarThis volume covers topics on awareness about one’s psychological health, management of emotions, mental hygiene, and wellbeing. It examines different types of thinking, reasoning, problem-solving, and strategies for building emotional intelligence. The book is a unique presentation of theories, research, and applications within important areas of psychology that will help the readers understand the aspects of self – emotional, cognitive, motivational, value orientation of self, and communication styles. This book shares insights into how to utilize our potential to fulfill our expectations from life with the help of positive psychological orientation. It will serve as an invaluable guide for readers interested to work on their emotional intelligence, mental health, and personal and group wellbeing, for gaining insight into developing cognitive, emotional, social, and behavioral aspects of self. It will also be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers in behavioral sciences, mental health, cognitive psychology, social psychology, counselling, philosophy, and wellness.
Life Space Crisis Intervention: Talking with Students in Conflict
by Nicholas J. Long Mary M. Wood Frank A. FecserProvides teachers, counselors, and others who work in some capacity with youth with guidance in Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI), a crisis intervention strategy developed from Fritz Redl's 1959 concept of Life Space Interviewing, a form of mediation that turns a student's potentially destructive experience into a instructional and insightful experience.
The Life Space of the Urban Child: Perspectives on Martha Muchow's Classic Study
by Gunter MeyThe heart of this book is the translation of The Life Space of the Urban Child, written in 1935 by Martha and Hans Heinrich Muchow. Life Space provides a fresh look at children as actors and how they absorb their city environments. It uses an empirical base connected with theories about the worlds in which children live. The first section provides historical background on Muchow's study and the author. The second section presents the translation of the Life Space study, as well as comments from an environmental psychologist's perspective. The third section reviews the study's theoretical foundations, including the concept of "critical personalism," the perspectives of phenomenology, and the notion of Umwelt (environment). The last section addresses various lines of research developed from the Life Space study, including Muchow's work in describing children in urban environments, methodological approaches, and the significance of space in social science and educational contexts. The manner in which Martha Muchow conducted her studies is itself of note. She obtained access to the children in their environments and combined observation with cartographies and essays produced by the children. This approach was new at the time and continues to inspire researchers today. This volume is the latest work in Transaction's History and Theory of Psychology series.
The Life Span: Human Development For Helping Professionals
by Pamela Blewitt Patricia BroderickThe Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals, 4th edition, provides an in-depth look at the science of human development, highlighting theories and research that have useful applications for individuals working in fields such as education, counseling, and social work. The main purpose of this book is to provide the reader with information that can be translated into professional "best practice" applications. Throughout, the text reflects the contemporary view that life span development is a process deeply embedded within and inseparable from the context of family, social network, and culture. Because the book is designed for graduate students, most topics, especially those that have special relevance to helping professionals, are covered in greater depth than in a typical life span text. The expanded coverage of research in these areas will enhance students'' understanding of the scientific basis for application to practice.
The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals
by Patricia Broderick Pamela BlewittThe Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals, 5th Edition, provides an in-depth look at the science of human development, highlighting theories and research that have useful applications for individuals working in fields such as education, counseling, and social work. The main purpose of this book is to provide the reader with information that can be translated into professional best practice applications. Throughout, the text reflects the contemporary view that life span development is a process deeply embedded within and inseparable from the context of family, social network, and culture. Because the book is designed for graduate students, most topics, especially those that have special relevance to helping professionals, are covered in greater depth than in a typical life span text. The expanded coverage of research in these areas will enhance readers’ understanding of the scientific basis for application to practice. Because the book is designed for graduate students, most topics, especially those that have special relevance to helping professionals, are covered in greater depth than in a typical life span text. The expanded coverage of research in these areas will enhance students'' understanding of the scientific basis for application to practice. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded video to illustrate key concepts and pop-up assessments to help students assess their proficiency.
The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals (Third Edition)
by Patricia C. Broderick Pamela BlewittBased on extensive research, the book effectively provides an array of information about principles of human development from birth to death.
Life Span Development: A Topical Approach
by Robert FeldmanLife Span Development: A Topical Approach 4TH EDITION
Life-Span Development
by John SantrockAs a master teacher,John Santrock connects students to current research and real-world application,helping students see how developmental psychology plays a role in their ownlives and future careers. Through an integrated, personalized digital learningprogram, students gain the insight they need to study smarter and improve performance.
Life Span Development
by John SantrockJohn Santrock connects current research with real-world application, helping students see how developmental psychology plays a role in their own lives and future careers. Through an integrated learning goals system, this comprehensive and chronological approach to lifespan development helps students gain the insight they need to study smarter, stay focused, and improve performance.
Life-Span Development
by John SantrockAs a master teacher, John Santrock connects current research with real-world application, helping students see how developmental psychology plays a role in their own lives and future careers. Through an integrated learning goals system, this comprehensive and chronological approach to lifespan development helps students gain the insight they need to study smarter, stay focused, and improve performance.
Life-span Development: Frameworks, Accounts and Strategies (New Essential Psychology)
by Leonie SugarmanThis thorough revision of the highly successful first edition of Life-Span Development offers the reader a wide-ranging and thought provoking account of human development throughout the lifespan. The lifespan approach emphasises that development does not stop when we cease to be adolescents but goes on throughout adulthood and into old age. In initial chapters Leonie Sugarman outlines the issues surrounding the notion of development and how it can be studied, including reviews of the work of key theorists Erikson, Levinson and Gould. She goes on to consider the different ways in which the life course can be construed: as a series of age-related stages; as a cumulative sequence; as a series of developmental tasks; as a series of key life events and transitions or as a narrative construction which creates a sense of dynamic continuity. A final chapter looks at how people cope, the resources that are available and the theoretical and practical issues regarding interventions to assist them in the process. New to this edition is increased coverage of the topical issue of successful ageing and a new chapter on the increasingly popular narrative approach to lifespan development. This edition is also more student-friendly with exercises in self-reflection that encourage the reader to look at the development of their own lives or those of their current or future clients. Boxed material highlighting major theories and clarifying concepts is also included. This book will be invaluable for students of developmental and occupational psychology and professionals in the fields of health management, education and social work.
Life-Span Development (12th edition)
by John W. SantrockPrevious editions of this text have been widely adopted for their accurate, complete, and up-to-date coverage. While maintaining these hallmarks, this revision includes increased coverage of adulthood and aging, a new Interlude feature on applications, and updated research with more 21st-century citations.
Life-Span Development (15th Edition)
by John W. SantrockThe book intends to provide students with the best and most recent theory and research in the world today about each of the periods of the human life span and guide them in making developmental connections across different points in the human life span.
Life-Span Development and Behavior: Volume 10 (Life-Span Development and Behavior Series #Vol. 12)
by Paul B. Baltes David L. Featherman Richard M. LernerThis serial publication continues to review life-span research and theory in the behavioral and social sciences, particularly work done by psychologists and sociologists conducting programmatic research on current problems and refining theoretical positions. Each volume introduces excellent peer-reviewed empirical research into the field of life-span development while presenting interdisciplinary viewpoints on the topic. Often challenging accepted theories, this series is of great interest to developmental, personality, and social psychologists.
Life-Span Development and Behavior: Volume 12 (Life-Span Development and Behavior Series #Vol. 12)
by David L. Featherman Richard M. Lerner Marion PerlmutterThe final volume in this significant series, this publication mirrors the broad scientific attention given to ideas and issues associated with the life-span perspective: constancy and change in human development; opportunities for and constraints on plasticity in structure and function across life; the potential for intervention across the entire life course (and thus for the creation of an applied developmental science); individual differences (diversity) in life paths, in contexts (or the ecology) of human development, and in changing relations between people and contexts; interconnections and discontinuities across age levels and developmental periods; and the importance of integrating biological, psychological, social, cultural, and historical levels of organization in order to understand human development.
Life-Span Development and Behavior: Volume 11 (Life-Span Development and Behavior Series #Vol. 12)
by David L. Featherman Richard M. Lerner Marion PerlmutterThis volume continues the tradition of the Life-Span Development Series, presenting overviews of research programs on a variety of developmental topics. Research and theory in life-span development have given increased attention to the issues of constancy and change in human development and to the opportunities for, and constraints on, plasticity in structure and function across life. Acknowledging the need for and existence of interconnection between age and developmental periods, it focuses on conditions for possibly discontinuous development that emerge at later periods. Contributors to this series are sensitive to the restrictive consequences of studying only specific age periods, such as old age, infancy, or adolescence. Each scholar attempts to relate the facts about one age group to similar facts about other age groups, and to move toward the study of transformation of characteristics and processes over the life span.
Life-span Developmental Psychology: Introduction To Research Methods
by Paul B. Baltes Hayne W. Reese John R. NesselroadeWhat are the changes we see over the life-span? How can we explain them? And how do we account for individual differences? This volume continues to examine these questions and to report advances in empirical research within life-span development increasing its interdisciplinary nature. The relationships between individual development, social context, and historical change are salient issues discussed in this volume, as are nonnormative and atypical events contributing to life-span change.
Life-Span Developmental Psychology: Methodological Contributions
by Stanley H. Cohen Hayne W. ReeseDealing with the methodological and data analytic problems in developmental research, this book presents solutions advanced from the disciplinary perspectives of psychology, behavior analysis and behavioral systems, sociology, and anthropology. Topics addressed include: * the metatheoretical issues about the relationship between data and theory * the identification and analysis of age, cohort, and time-of-measurement effects * the assessment of quantitative and qualitative change * the use of group and single-subject designs for control by systematic variation * the use of systems methodology to investigate the developmental continuity and organization of behavior * the analysis of data from repeated measures designs * the use of structural equations and path analysis to test causal hypotheses * the use of structured relational matrices to study development and change This unique volume offers students an unusually wide range of research tools for identifying and studying specific developmental problems.
Life-span Developmental Psychology: Perspectives on Stress and Coping
by E. Mark Cummings Anita L. Greene Katherine H. KarrakerAlthough there has been a significant increase in studies of stress and coping processes in recent years, researchers have often approached these topics from rather narrow and constrained perspectives. Furthermore, little communication has occurred across disciplines and research directions, resulting in the emergence of several relatively isolated literatures. An outgrowth of the Eleventh Biennial West Virginia University Conference on Life-Span Development, this volume emphasizes two major themes: the importance of taking a life-span approach to the study of stress and coping, and the development of new and more complete conceptual models of stress and coping processes. The first to approach these subjects from a life-span perspective, this book includes papers by distinguished researchers from each of the major periods of the life-span, and brings together the cognitive and socioemotional traditions in the study of dealing with pressures. The editors hope that this facilitation of communication among researchers with diverse views will help create a broadening and integration of perspectives.
Life-span Developmental Psychology: Intergenerational Relations
by Nancy Datan Anita L. Greene Hayne W. ReeseFirst published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Life-Span Developmental Systems: Meta-theory, Methodology and the Study of Applied Problems
by Ellen A. Skinner Thomas Kindermann Andrew MashburnEverything you always wanted to know about theories, meta-theories, methods, and interventions but didn’t realize you needed to ask. This innovative textbook takes advanced undergraduate and graduate students "behind the curtain" of standard developmental science, so they can begin to appreciate the generative value and methodological challenges of a lifespan developmental systems perspective. It envisions applied developmental science as focused on ways to use knowledge about human development to help solve societal problems in real-life contexts, and considers applied developmental research to be purpose driven, field based, community engaged, and oriented toward efforts to optimize development. Based on the authors’ more than 25 years of teaching, this text is designed to help researchers and their students intentionally create a cooperative learning community, full of arguments, doubts, and insights, that can facilitate their own internal paradigm shifts, one student at a time. With the aid of extensive online supplementary materials, students of developmental psychology as well as students in other psychological subdisciplines (such as industrial-organizational, social, and community psychology) and applied professions that rely on developmental training (such as education, social work, counseling, nursing, health care, and business) will find this to be an invaluable guidebook and toolbox for conceptualizing and studying applied problems from a lifespan developmental systems perspective.
Life-Span Human Development (Eighth Edition)
by Carol K. Sigelman Elizabeth A. RiderKnown for its clear, straightforward writing style, comprehensive coverage, strong and current research-based approach, and excellent visuals and tables, this life-span development text offers a topical organization at the chapter level and a consistent chronological presentation within each chapter. Each chapter focuses on a domain of development such as physical growth, cognition, or personality, and traces developmental trends and influences in that domain from infancy to old age. Within each chapter, you will find sections on four life stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. This unique organization enables students to comprehend the processes of transformation that occur in key areas of human development. Another staple of the text is its emphasis on theories and how they apply to specific topics in each chapter. This new edition also asks students to engage more actively with the content, and includes a clear focus on the complex interactions of nature and nurture in development, more integrated coverage of culture and diversity, and an exciting new media package for both students and instructors.