1st Edition

Second Chances As Transformative Stories Rhd V3 2&3

Edited By Kevin M. Roy Copyright 2007
    110 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    First published in 2006. This is Volume 3 of the Official Journal of the Society for the Study of Human Development from 2006. It includes a special edition collection of articles covering second chances as transformative stories, looking at the redemptive self, emotion and transformational processing, narrating self in the past and the future, low income fathers and prison conversions and the crisis of self-narrative.

    Chapter 1 Second Chances as Transformative Stories in Human Development: An Introduction, Kevin M. Roy, Dan P. McAdams; Chapter 2 The Redemptive Self: Generativity and the Stories Americans Live By, Dan P. McAdams; Chapter 3 Authoring a Second Chance in Life: Emotion and Transformational Processing Within Narrative Identity, Jennifer L. Pals; Chapter 4 Narrating the Self in the Past and the Future: Implications for Maturity, Laura A. King, Joshua A. Hicks; Chapter 5 Generativity as Second Chance: Low-Income Fathers and Transformation of the Difficult Past, Kevin M. Roy, Kristen Lucas; Chapter 6 Why God Is Often Found Behind Bars: Prison Conversions and the Crisis of Self-Narrative, Shadd Maruna, Louise Wilson, Kathryn Curran;

    Biography

    Kevin M. Roy, Dan P. McAdams