Handbook of Child Psychology: Theoretical Models of Human Development

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.

Spis treści:
1. Developmental Science, Developmental Systems, and Contemporary Theories of Human Development (Richard M. Lerner).
2. Developmental Psychology: Philosophy, Concepts, Methodology (Willis F. Overton).
3. The Making of Developmental Psychology (Robert B. Cairns and Beverley D. Cairns).
4. Developmental Epistemology and Implications for Methodology (Jaan Valsiner).
5. The Significance of Biology for Human Development: A Developmental Psychobiological Systems Views (Gilbert Gottlieb, Douglas Wahlsten and Robert Lickliter).
6. Dynamic Systems Theories (Esther Thelen and Linda B. Smith).
7. Dynamic Development of Action and Thought (Kurt W Fischer and Thomas R. Bidell).
8. The Person in Context: A Holistic–Interactionistic Approach (David Magnusson and Håkan Stattin).
9. The Developing Person: An Experiential Perspective (Kevin Rathunde and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi).
10. Action Perspectives on Human Development (J. Brandstädter).
11. Life Span Theory in Developmental Psychology (Paul B. Baltes, Ulman Lindenberger and Ursula M. Staudinger).
12. The Life Course and Human Development (Glen H. Elder and Michael J. Shanahan).
13. The Cultural Psychology of Development: One Mind, Many Mentalities (Richard A. Shweder, Jacqueline J. Goodnow, Giyoo Hatano, Robert A. Levine, Hazel R. Markus and Peggy J. Miller).
14. The Bioecological Model of Human Development (Urie Bronfenbrenner and Pamela A. Morris).
15. Phenomenologitcal and Ecological Systems Theory: Development of Diverse Groups (Margaret Beale Spencer).
16. Positive Youth Development: Theory, Research, and Applications (Peter L. Benson, Peter C. Scales, Stephen F. Hamilton and Arturo Sesma).
17. Religious and Spiritual Development Throughout the Life Span (Fritz K. Oser, W. George Scarlett and Anton Bucher).
Author Index.
Subject Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Volume Editor, Richard M. Lerner, Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science
Eliot–Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University
Editors–in–Chief, William Damon & Richard M. Lerner