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Handbook of Stressful Transitions Across the Lifespan

The modern life cycle is characterized by stressful transitions, when unexpected eventsand even many expected oneschallenge peoples functioning, health, and sense of self-worth. The international, multidisciplinary perspectives provided in the Handbook of Stressful Transitions Across the Lifespan...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Miller, Thomas W. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
Subjects:
Philosophy (General).
Sociology.
Developmental psychology.
Psychology.
Developmental Psychology.
Public Health/Gesundheitswesen.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0748-6
Table of Contents:
  • Ericksonian Theory Applied to Transitions in the Span
  • Stress, Mindful Parenting, and the Transition to Adulthood
  • Transitioning Recent Mass Trauma
  • Life Course Transitions: Marriage, Birth, and Divorce
  • The Career Transitions Faced by Adolescents and Young Adults
  • Coping with the Workplace and Job-related Transitions
  • Transitioning to Adulthood: The Stresses of Being a Foster Child
  • War and Trauma: Transitioning Back into Civilian Life
  • Becoming an Adoptive Parent: The Transition to Adoptive Parenthood as a Stressful Life Event
  • Transitioning into Retirement as a Stressful Life Event
  • Lifespan Development Revisited: African-Centered Spirituality throughout the Life Cycle
  • Encountering Stressful Events as Normative Transitions as a Test of Religious Beliefs
  • Self-Regulation Across Some Life Transitions
  • The Influence of Contemporary Medicine and Medical Genetics on Stressful Life Transitions
  • The Role of Significant Others in Adapting to Life Transitions
  • Transition in Health: Coping with Parkinson's Disease
  • Ethical and Legal Issues in Transitioning the Life Span
  • Stressful Markers of Health
  • The Influence of Food on Adapting to Stressful Life Events in the Life Cycle
  • Age-Related Patterns in Social Networks Among European-Americans and African-Americans. Some Predicators of Primary Control of Development in Three Transitional Periods of the Life Cycle
  • Concluding Comments and Future Considerations.

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