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Adult Development is a branch of developmental psychology. One simple breakdown of the field is to look at its three dimensions.

For example, positive adult developmental may be divided into at least six parts: hierarchical complexity, (orders, stages), knowledge, experience, expertise, wisdom, and spirituality.

Nondevelopmental forms include adulthood and adult human behavior.[vague]

While adult development has long been a subject reserved for academia and medical professions, in recent years, adult development has become an integral part of leadership and executive development.


Studies

Studies are currently underway concerning adult development by Robert J. Waldinger and George Eman Vaillant at The Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Professor Robert J. Waldinger, from Boston Massachusetts, is studying a group of men who have been a part of an elaborate study for 67 years. The intention is to examine early life predictors of healthy or unhealthy aging and relationships late in life.[1] George E. Vaillant, who has been the Director of the Study of Adult Development at the Harvard University Health Service for the last thirty five years has published is work in his books Adaptation to Life, 1977, The Wisdom of The Ego, 1993, and The Natural History of Alcoholism-Revisited, 1995. [1]. He charted adult development in 824 men and women their recovery process of schizophrenia, heroin addiction, alcoholism, and personality disorder. [1].

Four Adult Development Theories

  1. The Behavioral/ Mechanistic Approach
  2. The Psychological/ Cognative Approach
  3. Contextual/ Sociocultural Approach
  4. Integrated Approach


See also

  • Laboratory of Adult Development [1]
  • Journal of Adult Development [2]
  • Psychology and Aging [3]
  • Talent Development Resources! [4]
  • National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c "Laboratory of Adult Development". Harvard University. Retrieved 6 July 2011.


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