Applied Developmental Systems Science

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skinner, Ellen, author.

Kindermann, Thomas, author.

Roeser, Robert W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Textbooks.

Social sciences.

Sociology--Textbooks.

Sociology.

Religion--Textbooks.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Portland State University Library [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This textbook provides a toolbox, a guidebook, and an instruction manual for researchers and interventionists who want to conceptualize and study applied problems from a developmental systems perspective, and for those who want to teach their graduate (or advanced undergraduate) students how to do this. It is designed to be useful to practitioners who focus on applied developmental problems, such as improving the important developmental contexts where people live, learn, and work, including the applied professions in education, social work, counseling, health care, community development, and business, all of which at their core are concerned with optimizing the development of their students, clients, patients, workers, citizens, and others whose lives they touch.

Contents:

Section I: Goals of Developmental Science, Theories, and Target Phenomena

Section II: Metaphors and Meta-theories in Applied Developmental Science

Section III: Systems Meta-theories

Section IV: Relational Developmental Systems Meta-theories

Section V: Study of Development: Description

Section VI: Study of Development: Explanation

Section VII: Study of Development: Optimization

Notes:

Description based on online resource