Human Development across Lives and Generations: The Potential for Change

by P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Kathleen Kiernan, Ruth J. Friedman

Overview

How much change is possible over a lifetime and across generations? What is realistic in what we can do to promote healthy human development in our world? A group of leading international scholars in the fields of psychology and psychiatry, economics, and sociology address these important questions. Contributions cover marriage, divorce, and "living together"; poverty or economic disadvantage; and psychological traits and health, and how these affect parents and their children. Each section also has a chapter on interventions to improve lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521828840
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/02/2004
Series:	The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.94(d)

Table of Contents

Figures and tables; Contributors; Foreword Klaus Jacobs; Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction and Overview: 1. Introduction P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Kathleen Kiernan and Ruth J. Friedman; 2. Life-course development: the interplay of social-selection and social causations within and across generations Avshalom Caspi; Part II. Human Capital: 3. An overview of economic and social opportunities and disadvantage in European households Brian Nolan and Bertrand Maitre; 4. Parental, childhood, and early adult legacies in the emergence of adult social exclusion: evidence on what matters from a British cohort John Hobcraft; 5. Individual and parent based intervention strategies for promoting human capital and positive behavior Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson; Part III. Partnership Behavior: 6. Cohabitation and divorce across nations and generations Kathleen Kiernan; 7. The intergenerational transmission of couple instability E. Mavis Hetherington and Anne Mitchell Elmore; 8. Strengthening partnerships and families Kurt Hahlweg; Part IV. Psychological Health and Development: 9. Intergenerational continuities and discontinuities in psychological problems Michael Rutter; 10. Environmental influences on intellectual abilities in childhood: findings from a longitudinal adoption study Michel Duyme, Louise Arsenault, Annick-Camille Dumaret; 11. Intervention and policy as change agents for young children Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; Part V. Conclusion: 12. Human development and the potential for change from the perspective of multiple disciplines: what have we learned? P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"A new look at the nature-nurture issue, presenting it as an integrated system in which there is interaction and interdependence and in which causality is almost never linear or caused by only one factor....A very powerful example of the need for professionals to be conversant in and with other disciplines...bringing together the fields of economics, demography, sociology, psychology, and psychiatry....An extraordinary volume that deals with fundamental questions about human development" Contemporary Psychology

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