Human Development Across Lives and Generations The Potential for Change |
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| Editor:
| Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay
Kiernan, Kathleen E.
Friedman, Ruth J. |
| Contribution by:
| Rutter, Michael |
| Series title: | The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-82884-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2004 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $93.00 |
Book Description:
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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 nations? A group of leading international scholars in the fields of psychology and psychiatry, economics, and sociology address these important questions. Chapters discurss marriage, divorce, and "living together"; poverty or economic disadvantage; psychological traits and health, and how these affect parents and their children. Each...
More DescriptionHow 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 nations? A group of leading international scholars in the fields of psychology and psychiatry, economics, and sociology address these important questions. Chapters discurss marriage, divorce, and "living together"; poverty or economic disadvantage; psychological traits and health, and how these affect parents and their children. Each section also has a chapter on interventions to improve lives.