2nd Edition

Life-span Development Frameworks, Accounts and Strategies

By Leonie Sugarman Copyright 2002
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This 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... Read more

Lifespan Developmental Psychology. Collecting Data About Lives. Age Stages and Lifelines. Cumulative Sequences. Developmental Tasks. Life Events and Transitions. Dynamic Continuity Through Narrative. Intervention.

Biography

Léonie Sugarman is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, specialising in the area of adult development. She is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at St Martin’s College, Lancaster, where she teaches aspects of life-span development, stress management and individual change to students and practitioners in a range of professions.

"In a relatively short book it is quite remarkable how many concepts, theories and perspectives are described with such clarity, detail and critique. ... It all adds up to a tapestry as rich and as complex as human life itself." - Christine Doyle, Department of Psychology, University of East London

"This is an excellent revision to the original text. … This book makes a substantial contribution to the furthering of our understanding of life-span development psychology." - Ian Rivers, College of Ripon and York St John