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"Part of the authoritative four-volume reference that spans the entire field of child development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are compared. Updated and revised to reflect the new developments in the field, the Handbook of Child Psychology, Sixth Edition contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication.
Volume 1: Theoretical Models of Human Development , edited by Richard M. Lerner, Tufts University, explores a variety of theoretical approaches, including life-span/life-course theories, socio-culture theories, structural theories, object-relations theories, and diversity and development theories. New chapters cover phenomenology and ecological systems theory, positive youth development, and religious and spiritual development."
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| Title of eBook: Handbook of Child Psychology Volume 1: Theoretical Methods of Human Development | |
| Release Date: 05-19-2006 | |
| Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
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Handbook of Child Psychology Volume 1: Theoretical Methods of Human Development
Chapter One
Developmental Science, Developmental Systems, and Contemporary Theories of Human DevelopmentRICHARD M. LERNER
FROM DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY TO DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE 2 IMPLICATIONS OF RELATIONAL METATHEORIES FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE 5 FROM DEFICIT TO DIVERSITY IN DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE 6 VESTIGES OF REDUCTIONIST MODELS 7 USING THE DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE FOR THEORY, RESEARCH, AND APPLICATION 10 DIVERSITY-A FUNDAMENTAL ASSET OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 11 FEATURES AND IMPLICATIONS OF A POSITIVE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE 11 FRAMING THE RESEARCH AGENDA OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 12 CONCLUSIONS 13 REFERENCES 14
Much like the universities within which they are typically formulated, theoretical innovations in human development usually move at glacial speed. As described by Cairns and Cairns (Chapter 3, this Handbook, this volume), decades may elapse between the formulation of a new approach to human development and its ascendancy and proliferation in variations of the initial model as it is used in research and organized into a network, or "family" (Reese & Overton, 1970) of related theories. Finally, it passes from the scene, losing its role as an active or influential frame for research and application. This diminution of influence can occur for many reasons.
There may be the identification of (a) fundamental conceptual flaws, including empirically counterfactual assertions (e.g., see Overton, Chapter 2, this Handbook, this volume, for examples of theories that split nature-variables from nurture-variables in attempting to account for human development, and al
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