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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Rutter; Marjorie Rutter |
| ISBN: | 0465010377 9780465010370 |
| OCLC Number: | 26766986 |
| Description: | xiv, 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Reading and Spelling. Influences on Intelligence and Scholastic Attainment. Behavioural Consequences of Cognitive Impairment. Language -- 7. Adolescence: Sexuality, Self-image and Depression. Puberty. Sexuality. Social Experiences in Adolescence. Self-concepts and Identity. Changing Patterns of Psychiatric Disorder -- 8. Adulthood: Marriage, Careers and Parenting. Continuity and Change. Marriage. Army Experience as a Potential Turning-point. Work. Parenthood. Infertility -- 9. Mid-life Transitions and Old Age. Concepts of Life Stages. The Empty Nest. Grandparenthood. Looking after Elderly Parents. Male Sexuality. The Menopause. Age Trends in Psychiatric Disorder. Physical and Mental Decline. Psychosocial Functioning. Bereavement. Retirement -- 10. Epilogue: Transitions and Turning-points: Continuities and Discontinuities. Individual Differences. Understanding Causal Mechanisms. |
| Responsibility: | Michael and Marjorie Rutter. |
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Abstract:
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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