ABSTRACT
Everything you always wanted to know about theories, meta-theories, methods, and interventions but didn’t realize you needed to ask.
This innovative textbook takes advanced undergraduate and graduate students "behind the curtain" of standard developmental science, so they can begin to appreciate the generative value and methodological challenges of a lifespan developmental systems perspective.
It envisions applied developmental science as focused on ways to use knowledge about human development to help solve societal problems in real-life contexts, and considers applied developmental research to be purpose driven, field based, community engaged, and oriented toward efforts to optimize development. Based on the authors’ more than 25 years of teaching, this text is designed to help researchers and their students intentionally create a cooperative learning community, full of arguments, doubts, and insights, that can facilitate their own internal paradigm shifts, one student at a time.
With the aid of extensive online supplementary materials, students of developmental psychology as well as students in other psychological subdisciplines (such as industrial-organizational, social, and community psychology) and applied professions that rely on developmental training (such as education, social work, counseling, nursing, health care, and business) will find this to be an invaluable guidebook and toolbox for conceptualizing and studying applied problems from a lifespan developmental systems perspective.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |168 pages
Lifespan Developmental Systems Meta-theories
section Section I|59 pages
How Are Unexamined Assumptions Shaping Developmental Science?
section Section II|51 pages
How Can Contextual Approaches Enrich Our Understanding of Development?
chapter Chapter 7|12 pages
Lifespan Developmental Paradigm Shift
chapter Chapter 8|10 pages
Ecological Revolutions
chapter Chapter 9|16 pages
The Bioecological Model Reinvented
chapter Chapter 10|11 pages
Transactional Dialectical Advice
section Section III|56 pages
What More Does a Lifespan Developmental Systems Perspective Have to Offer?
chapter Chapter 11|14 pages
Relational Developmental Systems Meta-theories
chapter Chapter 12|11 pages
Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Meta-theories
chapter Chapter 13|13 pages
Putting It All Together I
chapter Chapter 14|14 pages
Putting It All Together II
part |207 pages
Lifespan Developmental Systems Methodologies
section Section IV|55 pages
What Tools Can We Use to Study Developmental Systems? Description
chapter Chapter 15|10 pages
The Assumptions in Your Hammer
chapter Chapter 16|17 pages
Adding Development to Designs
chapter Chapter 18|13 pages
Crossing Developmental Boundaries II
section Section V|86 pages
What Tools Can We Use to Study Developmental Systems? Explanation
chapter Chapter 22|16 pages
Looking under the Hood II
section Section VI|63 pages
What Tools Can We Use to Study Developmental Systems? Optimization