Handbook of Stressful Transitions Across the Lifespan

Release on 2009-11-28 | by Thomas W. Miller

The effects of life stressors and the impact of life transitions occur within the
context of overall lifespan development. In order to understand the meaning of
such potentially disruptive events for the individual, it is important to understand
what ...

Author: Thomas W. Miller
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441907483
Category: Psychology
Page: 691
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Handbook of Stressful Transitions Across the Lifespan

This volume provides a unique and valuable contribution to our understanding of the impact of stressful life events and mass trauma on the person, the culture and society in the course of the life span. It provides a comprehensive look at our psychological state of affairs at the beginning of the twenty-first century. There are several volumes that address some or most of these areas indivi- ally but this volume is unique in that it has brought together theoreticians, researchers and clinicians who address critical challenges in our lives. But we are now several months into the global financial crisis requiring a transition, not only for the western world but for the third world. How on earth do families in trauma zones – from Sri Lanka to Afghanistan, New Orleans to Gaza – cope with similar declining older relatives, with added traumas and zero medical resources attempt to survive? In news reports, politicians and financiers denying the inevitable and struggling for solutions that cannot be relevant to the new reality that they have yet to discover.

Language: en
Pages: 691

Handbook of Stressful Transitions Across the Lifespan

Authors: Thomas W. Miller

Categories: Psychology

Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-28 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Language: en
Pages: 261

Extending the Lifespan

Authors: Klaus Sames, Sebastian Sethe, Alexandra Stolzing

Categories: Medical

Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

This book collects the essays and presentations that were the product of a highly successful international meeting on experimental gerontology, conducted by the German Society for Gerontology and Gerontology in September 2003. In this volume, specialists from a variety of backgrounds address a multitude of issues including: Theories of Aging

Language: en
Pages: 299

Lifespan Development of Human Memory

Authors: Peter Graf (PhD.), Nobuo Ohta

Categories: Psychology

Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: MIT Press

An original approach to memory development that views memory as a continuous process of growth and loss over the human lifespan rather than as a series of separate periods. Until recently, the vast majority of memory research used only university students and other young adults as subjects. Although such research

Language: en
Pages: 495

Encyclopedia of Relationships Across the Lifespan

Authors: Jeffrey S. Turner

Categories: Psychology

Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group

This comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia explores the developmental nature of social interactions and is designed for a broad range of readers in college, institutional, and public library settings. Over 500 easy-to-read entries analyze terms, concepts, themes, theories, and policies, as well as current, historical, and multicultural perspectives, and provide over 1,500