Experiencing the lifespan /
Belsky, Janet, 1947-
Experiencing the lifespan / Janet Belsky, Middle Tennessee State University. - Third Edition - New York : Worth Publishers, [2013] - 48, pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Foundation -- ch. 1 The People and the Field -- Who We Are and What We Study -- Setting the Context -- The Impact of Cohort -- The Impact of Socioeconomic Status -- The Impact of Culture and Ethnicity -- The Impact of Gender -- Theories: Lenses for Looking at the Lifespan -- Behaviorism: The Original Blockbuster "Nurture" Theory -- Attachment Theory: Focus on Nurture, Nature, and Love -- Evolutionary Psychology: Theorizing About the "Nature" of Human Similarities -- Behavioral Genetics: Scientifically Exploring the "Nature" of Human Differences -- HOW DO WE KNOW ... That Our Nature Affects Our Upbringing? -- Nature and Nurture Combined -- Emphasis on Age-Linked Theories -- In Focus: Freud: A Twentieth-Century Culture Shaper -- The Developmental Systems Perspective -- Research Methods: The Tools of the Trade -- Two Standard Research Strategies: Correlations and Experiments. Contents note continued: Designs for Studying Development: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies -- Critiquing the Research -- Emerging Research Trends -- Some Concluding Introductory Thoughts -- ch. 2 Prenatal Development, Pregnancy, and Birth -- Setting the Context -- The First Step: Fertilization -- The Reproductive Systems -- The Process of Fertilization -- The Genetics of Fertilization -- Prenatal Development -- First Two Weeks: The Germinal Stage -- Week 3 to Week 8: The Embryonic Stage -- Principles of Prenatal Development -- Week 9 to Birth: The Fetal Stage -- Pregnancy -- Scanning the Trimesters -- Pregnancy Is Not a Solo Act -- What About Dads? -- Threats to the Developing Baby -- Threats from Outside: Teratogens -- In Focus: Pregnancy as a Programmer of Adult Life -- Threats from Within: Chromosomal and Genetic Disorders -- HOW DO WE KNOW ... About the Gene for Huntington's Disease? -- Interventions -- Infertility -- Interventions: Assisted Reproductive Technology. Contents note continued: Birth -- Stage 1 Dilation and Effacement -- Stage 2 Birth -- Stage 3 The Expulsion of the Placenta -- Threats at Birth -- Birth Options, Past and Present -- The Newborn -- Tools of Discovery: Testing Newborns -- Threats to Development Just After Birth -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Marcia's Story -- A Few Final Thoughts on Biological Determinism and Biological Parents -- pt. II Infancy -- ch. 3 Infancy: Physical and Cognitive Development -- Setting the Context -- The Expanding Brain -- Neural Pruning and Brain Plasticity -- Basic Newborn States -- Eating: The Basis of Living -- Experiencing The Lifespan: A Passion to Eradicate Malnutrition: A Career in Public Health -- Crying: The First Communication Signal -- Interventions: What Quiets a Young Baby? -- Sleeping: The Main Newborn State -- Interventions: What Helps a Baby Self-Soothe? -- In Focus: When Sleep Is Lethal -- Sensory and Motor Development -- What Do Newborns See? -- Expanding Body Size. Contents note continued: Mastering Motor Milestones -- Interventions: Baby-Proofing, the First Person-Environment Fit -- Cognition -- Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage -- Critiquing Piaget -- Tackling the Core of What Makes Us Human: Infant Social Cognition -- Language: The Endpoint of Infancy -- Nature, Nurture, and the Passion to Learn Language -- Tracking Emerging Language -- Babies "Connect" with the Human World -- ch. 4 Infancy: Socioemotional Development -- Attachment: The Basic Life Bond -- Setting the Context: How Developmentalists (Slowly) Got Attached to Attachment -- Exploring the Attachment Response -- Is Infant Attachment Universal? -- Does Infant Attachment Predict Later Development? -- In Focus: Experiencing Early Life's Worst Deprivation -- Wrapping Up Attachment -- Settings for Development -- The Impact of Poverty in the United States -- Interventions: Giving Disadvantaged Children an Intellectual and Social Boost -- The Impact of Child Care. Contents note continued: Interventions: Choosing Child Care -- Toddierhood: Age of Autonomy and Shame and Doubt -- Socialization: The Challenge for 2-Year-Olds -- HOW DO WE KNOW ... That Shy and Exuberant Children Differ Dramatically in Self-Control? -- Being Exuberant and Being Shy -- Interventions: Providing the Right Temperament-Socialization Fit -- pt. III Childhood -- ch. 5 Physical and Cognitive Development -- Setting the Context -- Special Mindreading Skills -- Slow-Growing Frontal Lobes -- Physical Development -- Two Types of Motor Talents -- Threats to Growth and Motor Skills -- Childhood Obesity -- Cognitive Development -- Piaget's Preoperational and Concrete Operational Stages -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Childhood Fears, Animism, and the Power of Stephen King -- Interventions: Using Piaget's Ideas at Home and at Work -- Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development -- Interventions: Becoming an Effective Scaffolder -- The Information-Processing Perspective. Contents note continued: Interventions: Using Information-Processing Theory at Home and at Work -- In Focus: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder -- Interventions: Helping Children with ADHD -- Wrapping Up Cognition -- Language -- Inner Speech -- Developing Speech -- Specific Social Cognitive Skills -- Constructing Our Personal Past -- Making Sense of Other Minds -- ch. 6 Socioemotional Development -- Setting the Challenge -- Personality (and the Emerging Self) -- Observing the Self -- Interventions: Promoting Realistic Self-Esteem -- In Focus: Praise, Academic Self-Efficacy, and the Racial Self -- Doing Good: Prosocial Behavior -- Interventions: Socializing Prosocial Children -- Doing Harm: Aggression -- Relationships -- Play -- Interventions: Helping Children Through Play -- Girls' and Boys' Play Worlds -- Friendships -- Popularity -- Exploring Middle School Meanness -- Bullying: A Core Contemporary Childhood Concern. Contents note continued: Experiencing The Lifespan: Middle-Aged Reflections on My Middle-Childhood Victimization -- Interventions: Attacking Bullying and Helping Rejected Children -- ch. 7 Settings for Development: Home and School -- Setting the Context -- Home -- Parenting Styles -- Interventions: Lessons for Thinking About Parents -- How Much Do Parents Matter? -- In Focus: Resilient Children -- Interventions: Lessons for Readers Who Are Parents -- Spanking -- Child Abuse -- Interventions: Taking Action Against Child Abuse -- Divorce -- School -- Setting the Context: Unequal at the Starting Gate -- Intelligence and IQ Tests -- Experiencing The Lifespan: From Dyslexic Child to College Professor Adult -- Interventions: Lessons for Schools -- Classroom Learning -- In Focus: Teaching at Its Finest -- pt. IV Adolescence -- ch. 8 Physical Development -- Puberty -- Setting the Context: Culture, History, and Puberty -- The Hormonal Programmers -- The Physical Changes. Contents note continued: Individual Differences in Puberty Timetables -- An Insider's View of Puberty -- Wrapping up Puberty -- Interventions: Minimizing Puberty Distress -- Body Image Issues -- The Differing Body Concerns of Girls and Boys -- Eating Disorders -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Women's Center Counselor -- Interventions: Improving Teenagers' Body Image -- Sexuality -- Exploring Sexual Desire -- Who Is Having Intercourse? -- Who Are Teens Having Intercourse With? -- In Focus: The Sexual Double Standard -- Wrapping Up Sexuality: Contemporary Trends -- Interventions: Toward Teenager-Friendly Sex Education -- ch. 9 Cognitive and Socioemotional Development -- Setting the Context -- The Mysterious Teenage Mind -- Three Classic Theories of Teenage Thinking -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Olivia, a Tenth-Grade Social Activist -- Studying Three Aspects of Storm and Stress -- HOW DO WE KNOW ... That Adolescents Make Riskier Decisions When They Are with Their Peers? Contents note continued: In Focus: A Potential Pubertal Problem, Popularity -- Different Teenage Pathways -- Wrapping Things Up: The Blossoming Teenage Brain -- Interventions: Making the World Fit the Teenage Mind -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Innocently Imprisoned at 16 -- Another Perspective on the Teenage Mind -- Teenage Relationships -- Separating from Parents -- Connecting in Groups -- A Note on Adolescence Worldwide -- pt. V Early and Middle Adulthood -- ch. 10 Constructing an Adult Life -- Emerging into Adulthood -- Setting the Context: Culture and History -- Beginning and End Points -- Constructing an identity -- Marcia's Identity Statuses -- The Identity Statuses in Action -- In Focus: Ethnic Identity, a Minority Theme -- Finding a Career -- Entering with High (but Often Unrealistic) Career Goals -- Experiencing Emotional Growth -- Finding Flow -- Emerging into Adulthood Without a College Degree -- Interventions: Giving Economically Strapped Young People a Boost. Contents note continued: Being in College -- Interventions: Making College an Inner-Growth Flow Zone -- Finding Love -- Setting the Context: Different Partner Choices -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Another Perspective on U.S. Dating and Mating -- In Focus: Coming Out to Mom and Dad -- Traditional Looks at Love: Similarity and Structured Relationship Stages -- New Looks at Love: Irrationality, Unpredictability, and Attachment Styles -- HOW DO WE KNOW ... That a Person Is Securely or Insecurely Attached? -- Interventions: Evaluating Your Own Relationship -- ch. 11 Relationships and Roles -- Marriage -- Setting the Context: The Changing Landscape of Marriage -- The Main Marital Pathway: Downhill and Then Up -- The Triangular Theory Perspective on Happiness -- Couple Communications and Happiness -- Commitment: A Core Quality in Relationship Success -- Interventions: Staying Together Happily for Life -- Divorce -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Visitor Father -- Parenthood. Contents note continued: Setting the Context: More Parenting Possibilities, Fewer Children -- The Transition to Parenthood -- Exploring Motherhood -- Exploring Fatherhood -- Work -- Setting the Context: The Changing Landscape of Work -- Women, Men, and Work: Variations on a Theme or Basic Differences? -- Exploring Career Success and Happiness -- In Focus: Being Unemployed -- ch. 12 Midlife -- Setting the Context -- The Evolving Self -- Exploring Personality (and Well-Being) -- Exploring Intelligence (and Wisdom) -- Interventions: Keeping a Fine-Tuned Mind -- Midlife Roles and Issues -- Grandparenthood -- Parent Care -- Body Image, Sex, and Menopause -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Confronting an Aging Face -- pt. VI Later Life -- ch. 13 Later Life: Cognitive and Socioemotional Development -- Setting the Context -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Ageism Through the Ages -- The Evolving Self -- Memory -- Interventions: Keeping Memory Fine-Tuned -- Personal Priorities (and Well-Being). Contents note continued: Experiencing The Lifespan: Jules: Fully Functioning at Age 94 -- Interventions: Using the Research to Help Older Adults -- Later-Life Transitions -- Retirement -- In Focus: The Impact of Age Discrimination -- Widowhood -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Visiting a Widowed Person's Support Group -- ch. 14 The Physical Challenges of Old Age -- Tracing Physical Aging -- Three Basic Principles of Age-Related Disease -- Socioeconomic Status, Aging, and Disease -- Ethnicity, Aging, and Disease -- Gender, Aging, and Disease -- Cohort, Aging, and Disease -- Interventions: Taking a Holistic Lifespan Disease-Prevention Approach -- Sensory-Motor Changes -- Our Windows on the World: Vision -- Interventions: Clarifying Sight -- Our Bridge to Others: Hearing -- Interventions: Amplifying Hearing -- Motor Performances -- Interventions: Managing Motor Problems -- In Focus: Driving in Old Age -- Dementia. Contents note continued: Experiencing The Lifespan: An Insider's Portrait of Alzheimer's Disease -- The Dimensions of Dementia -- Dementia's Two Main Causes -- Targeting the Beginnings: The Quest to Nip Alzheimer's in the Bud -- Interventions: Dealing with Dementing Diseases -- Options and Services for the Frail Elderly -- Setting the Context: Scanning the Global Elder-Care Scene -- Alternatives to Institutions in the United States -- Nursing Home Care -- A Few Concluding Thoughts -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Getting It Together in the Nursing Home -- pt. VII Epilogue -- ch. 15 Death and Dying -- Setting the Context -- A Short History of Death -- Cultural Variations on a Theme -- The Dying Person -- Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: Description and Critique -- The More Realistic View: Many Different Emotions; Wanting Life to Go On -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Heart Failure Is a Family Affair -- In Focus: The Death of a Child -- In Search of a Good Death. Contents note continued: The Health-Care System -- What's Wrong with Traditional Hospital Care for the Dying? -- Interventions: Providing Superior Palliative Care -- Unhooking Death from Doctors and Hospitals: Hospice Care -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Hospice Team -- The Dying Person: Taking Control of How We Die -- Giving Instructions: Advance Directives -- Deciding When to Die: Active Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide -- A Looming Social Issue: Age-Based Rationing of Care -- Final Thoughts.
9781464110092 1429299223
2012945704
Developmental psychology.
Life cycle, Human.
Developmental psychology.
Life cycle, Human.
Entwicklung.
Entwicklungspsychologie.
Kind.
Jugend.
Erwachsener.
Alter.
BF713 / .B44 2013
155/ / BEL
Experiencing the lifespan / Janet Belsky, Middle Tennessee State University. - Third Edition - New York : Worth Publishers, [2013] - 48, pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Foundation -- ch. 1 The People and the Field -- Who We Are and What We Study -- Setting the Context -- The Impact of Cohort -- The Impact of Socioeconomic Status -- The Impact of Culture and Ethnicity -- The Impact of Gender -- Theories: Lenses for Looking at the Lifespan -- Behaviorism: The Original Blockbuster "Nurture" Theory -- Attachment Theory: Focus on Nurture, Nature, and Love -- Evolutionary Psychology: Theorizing About the "Nature" of Human Similarities -- Behavioral Genetics: Scientifically Exploring the "Nature" of Human Differences -- HOW DO WE KNOW ... That Our Nature Affects Our Upbringing? -- Nature and Nurture Combined -- Emphasis on Age-Linked Theories -- In Focus: Freud: A Twentieth-Century Culture Shaper -- The Developmental Systems Perspective -- Research Methods: The Tools of the Trade -- Two Standard Research Strategies: Correlations and Experiments. Contents note continued: Designs for Studying Development: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies -- Critiquing the Research -- Emerging Research Trends -- Some Concluding Introductory Thoughts -- ch. 2 Prenatal Development, Pregnancy, and Birth -- Setting the Context -- The First Step: Fertilization -- The Reproductive Systems -- The Process of Fertilization -- The Genetics of Fertilization -- Prenatal Development -- First Two Weeks: The Germinal Stage -- Week 3 to Week 8: The Embryonic Stage -- Principles of Prenatal Development -- Week 9 to Birth: The Fetal Stage -- Pregnancy -- Scanning the Trimesters -- Pregnancy Is Not a Solo Act -- What About Dads? -- Threats to the Developing Baby -- Threats from Outside: Teratogens -- In Focus: Pregnancy as a Programmer of Adult Life -- Threats from Within: Chromosomal and Genetic Disorders -- HOW DO WE KNOW ... About the Gene for Huntington's Disease? -- Interventions -- Infertility -- Interventions: Assisted Reproductive Technology. Contents note continued: Birth -- Stage 1 Dilation and Effacement -- Stage 2 Birth -- Stage 3 The Expulsion of the Placenta -- Threats at Birth -- Birth Options, Past and Present -- The Newborn -- Tools of Discovery: Testing Newborns -- Threats to Development Just After Birth -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Marcia's Story -- A Few Final Thoughts on Biological Determinism and Biological Parents -- pt. II Infancy -- ch. 3 Infancy: Physical and Cognitive Development -- Setting the Context -- The Expanding Brain -- Neural Pruning and Brain Plasticity -- Basic Newborn States -- Eating: The Basis of Living -- Experiencing The Lifespan: A Passion to Eradicate Malnutrition: A Career in Public Health -- Crying: The First Communication Signal -- Interventions: What Quiets a Young Baby? -- Sleeping: The Main Newborn State -- Interventions: What Helps a Baby Self-Soothe? -- In Focus: When Sleep Is Lethal -- Sensory and Motor Development -- What Do Newborns See? -- Expanding Body Size. Contents note continued: Mastering Motor Milestones -- Interventions: Baby-Proofing, the First Person-Environment Fit -- Cognition -- Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage -- Critiquing Piaget -- Tackling the Core of What Makes Us Human: Infant Social Cognition -- Language: The Endpoint of Infancy -- Nature, Nurture, and the Passion to Learn Language -- Tracking Emerging Language -- Babies "Connect" with the Human World -- ch. 4 Infancy: Socioemotional Development -- Attachment: The Basic Life Bond -- Setting the Context: How Developmentalists (Slowly) Got Attached to Attachment -- Exploring the Attachment Response -- Is Infant Attachment Universal? -- Does Infant Attachment Predict Later Development? -- In Focus: Experiencing Early Life's Worst Deprivation -- Wrapping Up Attachment -- Settings for Development -- The Impact of Poverty in the United States -- Interventions: Giving Disadvantaged Children an Intellectual and Social Boost -- The Impact of Child Care. Contents note continued: Interventions: Choosing Child Care -- Toddierhood: Age of Autonomy and Shame and Doubt -- Socialization: The Challenge for 2-Year-Olds -- HOW DO WE KNOW ... That Shy and Exuberant Children Differ Dramatically in Self-Control? -- Being Exuberant and Being Shy -- Interventions: Providing the Right Temperament-Socialization Fit -- pt. III Childhood -- ch. 5 Physical and Cognitive Development -- Setting the Context -- Special Mindreading Skills -- Slow-Growing Frontal Lobes -- Physical Development -- Two Types of Motor Talents -- Threats to Growth and Motor Skills -- Childhood Obesity -- Cognitive Development -- Piaget's Preoperational and Concrete Operational Stages -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Childhood Fears, Animism, and the Power of Stephen King -- Interventions: Using Piaget's Ideas at Home and at Work -- Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development -- Interventions: Becoming an Effective Scaffolder -- The Information-Processing Perspective. Contents note continued: Interventions: Using Information-Processing Theory at Home and at Work -- In Focus: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder -- Interventions: Helping Children with ADHD -- Wrapping Up Cognition -- Language -- Inner Speech -- Developing Speech -- Specific Social Cognitive Skills -- Constructing Our Personal Past -- Making Sense of Other Minds -- ch. 6 Socioemotional Development -- Setting the Challenge -- Personality (and the Emerging Self) -- Observing the Self -- Interventions: Promoting Realistic Self-Esteem -- In Focus: Praise, Academic Self-Efficacy, and the Racial Self -- Doing Good: Prosocial Behavior -- Interventions: Socializing Prosocial Children -- Doing Harm: Aggression -- Relationships -- Play -- Interventions: Helping Children Through Play -- Girls' and Boys' Play Worlds -- Friendships -- Popularity -- Exploring Middle School Meanness -- Bullying: A Core Contemporary Childhood Concern. Contents note continued: Experiencing The Lifespan: Middle-Aged Reflections on My Middle-Childhood Victimization -- Interventions: Attacking Bullying and Helping Rejected Children -- ch. 7 Settings for Development: Home and School -- Setting the Context -- Home -- Parenting Styles -- Interventions: Lessons for Thinking About Parents -- How Much Do Parents Matter? -- In Focus: Resilient Children -- Interventions: Lessons for Readers Who Are Parents -- Spanking -- Child Abuse -- Interventions: Taking Action Against Child Abuse -- Divorce -- School -- Setting the Context: Unequal at the Starting Gate -- Intelligence and IQ Tests -- Experiencing The Lifespan: From Dyslexic Child to College Professor Adult -- Interventions: Lessons for Schools -- Classroom Learning -- In Focus: Teaching at Its Finest -- pt. IV Adolescence -- ch. 8 Physical Development -- Puberty -- Setting the Context: Culture, History, and Puberty -- The Hormonal Programmers -- The Physical Changes. Contents note continued: Individual Differences in Puberty Timetables -- An Insider's View of Puberty -- Wrapping up Puberty -- Interventions: Minimizing Puberty Distress -- Body Image Issues -- The Differing Body Concerns of Girls and Boys -- Eating Disorders -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Women's Center Counselor -- Interventions: Improving Teenagers' Body Image -- Sexuality -- Exploring Sexual Desire -- Who Is Having Intercourse? -- Who Are Teens Having Intercourse With? -- In Focus: The Sexual Double Standard -- Wrapping Up Sexuality: Contemporary Trends -- Interventions: Toward Teenager-Friendly Sex Education -- ch. 9 Cognitive and Socioemotional Development -- Setting the Context -- The Mysterious Teenage Mind -- Three Classic Theories of Teenage Thinking -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Olivia, a Tenth-Grade Social Activist -- Studying Three Aspects of Storm and Stress -- HOW DO WE KNOW ... That Adolescents Make Riskier Decisions When They Are with Their Peers? Contents note continued: In Focus: A Potential Pubertal Problem, Popularity -- Different Teenage Pathways -- Wrapping Things Up: The Blossoming Teenage Brain -- Interventions: Making the World Fit the Teenage Mind -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Innocently Imprisoned at 16 -- Another Perspective on the Teenage Mind -- Teenage Relationships -- Separating from Parents -- Connecting in Groups -- A Note on Adolescence Worldwide -- pt. V Early and Middle Adulthood -- ch. 10 Constructing an Adult Life -- Emerging into Adulthood -- Setting the Context: Culture and History -- Beginning and End Points -- Constructing an identity -- Marcia's Identity Statuses -- The Identity Statuses in Action -- In Focus: Ethnic Identity, a Minority Theme -- Finding a Career -- Entering with High (but Often Unrealistic) Career Goals -- Experiencing Emotional Growth -- Finding Flow -- Emerging into Adulthood Without a College Degree -- Interventions: Giving Economically Strapped Young People a Boost. Contents note continued: Being in College -- Interventions: Making College an Inner-Growth Flow Zone -- Finding Love -- Setting the Context: Different Partner Choices -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Another Perspective on U.S. Dating and Mating -- In Focus: Coming Out to Mom and Dad -- Traditional Looks at Love: Similarity and Structured Relationship Stages -- New Looks at Love: Irrationality, Unpredictability, and Attachment Styles -- HOW DO WE KNOW ... That a Person Is Securely or Insecurely Attached? -- Interventions: Evaluating Your Own Relationship -- ch. 11 Relationships and Roles -- Marriage -- Setting the Context: The Changing Landscape of Marriage -- The Main Marital Pathway: Downhill and Then Up -- The Triangular Theory Perspective on Happiness -- Couple Communications and Happiness -- Commitment: A Core Quality in Relationship Success -- Interventions: Staying Together Happily for Life -- Divorce -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Visitor Father -- Parenthood. Contents note continued: Setting the Context: More Parenting Possibilities, Fewer Children -- The Transition to Parenthood -- Exploring Motherhood -- Exploring Fatherhood -- Work -- Setting the Context: The Changing Landscape of Work -- Women, Men, and Work: Variations on a Theme or Basic Differences? -- Exploring Career Success and Happiness -- In Focus: Being Unemployed -- ch. 12 Midlife -- Setting the Context -- The Evolving Self -- Exploring Personality (and Well-Being) -- Exploring Intelligence (and Wisdom) -- Interventions: Keeping a Fine-Tuned Mind -- Midlife Roles and Issues -- Grandparenthood -- Parent Care -- Body Image, Sex, and Menopause -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Confronting an Aging Face -- pt. VI Later Life -- ch. 13 Later Life: Cognitive and Socioemotional Development -- Setting the Context -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Ageism Through the Ages -- The Evolving Self -- Memory -- Interventions: Keeping Memory Fine-Tuned -- Personal Priorities (and Well-Being). Contents note continued: Experiencing The Lifespan: Jules: Fully Functioning at Age 94 -- Interventions: Using the Research to Help Older Adults -- Later-Life Transitions -- Retirement -- In Focus: The Impact of Age Discrimination -- Widowhood -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Visiting a Widowed Person's Support Group -- ch. 14 The Physical Challenges of Old Age -- Tracing Physical Aging -- Three Basic Principles of Age-Related Disease -- Socioeconomic Status, Aging, and Disease -- Ethnicity, Aging, and Disease -- Gender, Aging, and Disease -- Cohort, Aging, and Disease -- Interventions: Taking a Holistic Lifespan Disease-Prevention Approach -- Sensory-Motor Changes -- Our Windows on the World: Vision -- Interventions: Clarifying Sight -- Our Bridge to Others: Hearing -- Interventions: Amplifying Hearing -- Motor Performances -- Interventions: Managing Motor Problems -- In Focus: Driving in Old Age -- Dementia. Contents note continued: Experiencing The Lifespan: An Insider's Portrait of Alzheimer's Disease -- The Dimensions of Dementia -- Dementia's Two Main Causes -- Targeting the Beginnings: The Quest to Nip Alzheimer's in the Bud -- Interventions: Dealing with Dementing Diseases -- Options and Services for the Frail Elderly -- Setting the Context: Scanning the Global Elder-Care Scene -- Alternatives to Institutions in the United States -- Nursing Home Care -- A Few Concluding Thoughts -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Getting It Together in the Nursing Home -- pt. VII Epilogue -- ch. 15 Death and Dying -- Setting the Context -- A Short History of Death -- Cultural Variations on a Theme -- The Dying Person -- Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: Description and Critique -- The More Realistic View: Many Different Emotions; Wanting Life to Go On -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Heart Failure Is a Family Affair -- In Focus: The Death of a Child -- In Search of a Good Death. Contents note continued: The Health-Care System -- What's Wrong with Traditional Hospital Care for the Dying? -- Interventions: Providing Superior Palliative Care -- Unhooking Death from Doctors and Hospitals: Hospice Care -- Experiencing The Lifespan: Hospice Team -- The Dying Person: Taking Control of How We Die -- Giving Instructions: Advance Directives -- Deciding When to Die: Active Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide -- A Looming Social Issue: Age-Based Rationing of Care -- Final Thoughts.
9781464110092 1429299223
2012945704
Developmental psychology.
Life cycle, Human.
Developmental psychology.
Life cycle, Human.
Entwicklung.
Entwicklungspsychologie.
Kind.
Jugend.
Erwachsener.
Alter.
BF713 / .B44 2013
155/ / BEL