Human development from Adolescence till death with a particular regard to affective, social and cognitive changes occurring during adolescence, emerging adulthood, early and middle adult age, aging. Experiences’ cumulative sequences, developmental tasks, transitions and continuous narratives occurring during life cycle
Janet Belsky, Experiencing the life span (chapters 1-10) New York Worth Publishers
Janet Belsky, Experiencing the life span (chapters 11-15) New York, Worth Publishers
Léonie Sugarmann, Life – Span Development, 2001
Learning Objectives
To get a sufficiently detailed and whole knowledge on the different periods of human development from Adolescence till death with a particular regard to affective, social and cognitive aspects.
To know the main developmental processes of life cycle and how an human being represents these
Prerequisites
no one
Teaching Methods
Lectures, practical exercises, group discussion on course’s issues , tests
Further information
no one
Type of Assessment
Written test consisting in 20 questions with four possible answers, and 1 question requesting a more detailed answer. If the written test receives a sufficient score a student can sustain the oral test.
Course program
Adolescence and emerging adulthood: physical changes, cognitive and socio emotional development. Adulthood: the early and middle adulthood. Relationships and roles in adulthood: marriage, finding a job, becoming a parent, divorce. Middle life: evolving self, sex and menopause: the physical challenges of the old age. Later life: cognitive and socio emotional development : the evolving self, later transitions. the death and dying.
The life-cycle psychology. Stages, ages and lines of development. Cumulative sequences. The tasks of development. The events and the transitions of life, the dynamic continuity of narratives, Intervening on the life cycle