Ageing and Development
Theories and Research
ISBN13: 9780340758946ISBN10: 0340758945
Paperback,
256 pages
Apr 2004,
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$39.95 (05)A Hodder Arnold Publication
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Description
With increasing numbers of people living to advanced ages, a better understanding is required of the nature and experience of aging in all its aspects. This concise book provides a detailed overview of the theories and research that explain adult development into old age. The classic accounts of theorists such as Jung and Erikson are considered, along with those of their present-day successors. The book focuses on theories of adjustment and loss, which dominate current gerontological research.A feature of the book is the section devoted to the psychology of advanced old age, to life in states of physical and/or mental frailty, and to the survival of the self in these circumstances. This book will be of interest to undergraduate students taking courses in developmental psychology and the psychology of ageing and social gerontology as well as to postgraduate students in developmental psychology.
Product Details
256 pages; 7 halftones & line illus.; ISBN13: 978-0-340-75894-6ISBN10: 0-340-75894-5About the Author(s)
Peter G. Coleman, Professor of Psychogerontology, The Schools of Psychology and Medicine, University of Southampton, and Ann O'Hanlon, Health and Lifespan Developmental Psychologist, Department of Psychology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
