Adult development, therapy, and culture : a postmodern synthesis /

This original work integrates adult development, psychotherapy, and culture in a postmodern framework emphasizing the co-constructive, continual evolution that takes place in all three areas. Gerald D. Young bases his approach on a 25-step neo-Piagetian developmental lifespan model to illustrate the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Young, Gerald, 1947-
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Plenum Press, [1997]
Series:	Plenum series in adult development and aging.
Subjects:	Psychotherapy. Adulthood > Psychological aspects. Developmental psychology. Postmodernism > Psychological aspects. Social psychology. Adult > psychology. Psychology, Social. Entwicklungspsychologie. Psychotherapie. Erwachsener. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

A 25-step development model
Overview
The postmodern adult
Self development
Family development
The Vygotskian perspective on cognitive development
Contemporary elaborations of Vygotskian theory
The cognitive (mis)perception of the other
Individual differences and coappropriation
Postmodern adult therapy
Transition therapy
Epistemology
Elaborations, conclusions, contributions
Political discourse in adolescents with their mothers
From adult development to communication.