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Adult Development, Therapy and Culture
Gerald D. Young
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Hardback. Integrates adult development, psychotherapy, and culture, emphasizing the co-constructive, continual evolution that takes place in all three areas. Based on a 25-step neo-Piagetian developmental lifespan model to illustrate the tack taken in each area, this book contains tables that summarize specific aspects of the 25 steps. Series: The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1680.
This volume proposes a theoretical integration of several major streams in contemporary psychological theory about adult development and therapy. It adopts the perspective that there are steps in development throughout the adult period, and that they are characterized by a union of the cognitive and affective, the self and the other, and idea with idea (in second-order collective abstractions). That is, they are at once postformal in terms of Piaget's theory, sociocultural in terms ofVygotsky's theory, and postmodern with the latter perspective providing an integrating theme. The affirmative, multivoiced, contextual, relational, other-sensitive side ofpostmodernism is emphasized. Levinas's philosophy of responsibility ... Read more
This volume proposes a theoretical integration of several major streams in contemporary psychological theory about adult development and therapy. It adopts the perspective that there are steps in development throughout the adult period, and that they are characterized by a union of the cognitive and affective, the self and the other, and idea with idea (in second-order collective abstractions). That is, they are at once postformal in terms of Piaget's theory, sociocultural in terms ofVygotsky's theory, and postmodern with the latter perspective providing an integrating theme. The affirmative, multivoiced, contextual, relational, other-sensitive side ofpostmodernism is emphasized. Levinas's philosophy of responsibility ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
Series
The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging
Number of Pages
259
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306453533
SKU
V9780306453533
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