Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. In: Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Editor, Oxford University Press (2003) Pp. xi+794. Price $50.00 paper.

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The Oxford Handbook of Stress, Health and Coping

In contrast to traditional perspectives of resilience as a stable, trait-like characteristic, resilience is now recognized as a multidimentional, dynamic capacity influenced by life-long interactions between internal and environmental resources. We review psychosocial and neurobiological factors associated with resilience to late-life depression (LLD). Recent research has identified both psychosocial characteristics associated with elevated LLD risk (e.g., insecure attachment, neuroticism) and psychosocial processes that may be useful intervention targets (e.g., self-efficacy, sense of purpose, coping behaviors, social support). Psychobiological factors include a variety of endocrine, genetic, inflammatory, metabolic, neural, and cardiovascular processes that bidirectionally interact to affect risk for LLD onset and course of illness. Several resilience-enhancing intervention modalities show promise for the prevention and treatment of LLD, including cognitive/psychological or mind-body (positive psychology; psychotherapy; heart rate variability biofeedback; meditation), movement-based (aerobic exercise; yoga; tai chi), and biological approaches (pharmacotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy). Additional research is needed to further elucidate psychosocial and biological factors that affect risk and course of LLD. In addition, research to identify psychobiological factors predicting differential treatment response to various interventions will be essential to the development of more individualized and effective approaches to the prevention and treatment of LLD.

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Psychobiological factors of resilience and depression in late life.

The Study of Human Development. Trends and Issues in Human Development. Arnold Gesell and the Maturational Model. Other Biological Approaches: Ethology and Sociobiology. Sigmund Freud and the Psychoanalytic Model. Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Perspective. The Behavior Model: Basic Assumptions and Behavior Analysis. Social Learning Views of Development. The Cognitive--Developmental Approach. The Organismic Model: Orthogenesis and Dialectics. A Discussion and Comparison of Developmental Theories. Author and Subject Indexes.

Theories of Human Development

In this paper the author introduces a very practical model to guide school leaders/managers into supporting parental -involvement and -engagement in their schools. The model is called the Dual Navi...

A Practical Model for School Leaders to Encourage Parental Involvement and Parental Engagement.


Aus der Reihe utb-basics
Die Entwicklungspsychologie gehört zu den grundlegenden Fächern im Psychologiestudium. 
Dieses Lehrbuch gibt Studienanfängern einen ausgewogenen Einblick in Theorien, Methoden und Forschungsergebnisse der Entwicklungspsychologie – von der frühen Kindheit bis ins späte Erwachsenenalter.
Entwicklungsvoraussetzungen und -bedingungen werden eingehend anhand der Funktionen Wahrnehmung, Denken, Problemlösen, Gedächtnis, Bindung, soziale Entwicklung u. a. diskutiert. 
Unerlässlicher Lesestoff zur Prüfungsvorbereitung!

Entwicklungspsychologie: Eine Einführung in die Erklärung menschlicher Entwicklung

Evolutionary developmental psychology claims that the sequences and processes of human development, in fact the mere fact of ontogeny itself, have to be viewed as evolutionary products. However, although the functional benefits of childish behavior (child playing) for cognitive and emotional development have been shown repeatedly, claiming evolutionary adaptiveness of playing in childhood suggests that childish play supports evolutionary success in mature stages of development. This hypothesis is tested in a study with N = 134 adults (93 females; age range 20–66 years). Participants were asked to recollect their play experiences during childhood in detail, and to report their current developmental status with respect to several aspects of social success. Results show that the opportunity for and the promotion of free play in childhood significantly predict some indicators of social success. Additional analyses strive to explore mediating processes for this relationship. In particular, the mediating role o...

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Does playing pay? The fitness-effect of free play during childhood.

Accommodative coping in early adolescence: an investigation of possible developmental components.

Coping research has consistently shown that accommodative coping is positively correlated with individuals’ health. Until now, however, there have been little to no studies on the prognostic impact of accommodative coping on health, and only a few studies investigating its buffering effect on the relation between stress and health in childhood and adolescence. Thus, two main research questions were tracked in two longitudinal studies: Study 1 investigated if accommodative coping is indeed a functional resource that longitudinally predicts well-being in a sample of N = 403 adolescents (aged 12–15 years at Wave 1). Study 2 examined the function of accommodative coping under stressful conditions by investigating its buffering effect on the negative impact of school-related stress on well-being in a sample of N = 86 children (aged 9–12 years at Wave 1). Study 1 revealed accommodative coping longitudinally predicting well-being, and, conversely, there was no prediction of well-being through accommodative copin...

The impact of accommodative coping on well-being in childhood and adolescence Longitudinal findings

Developmental Conditions of Adaptive Self-Stabilization in Adolescence: An Exploratory Study

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