Author: Sheila Kaplan PickardPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Separation Issues Between the Late Adolescent Female and Her Mid-life Mother
Author: Sheila Kaplan PickardMaternal Separation in Late Adolescent Women
Author: Patricia Ann PontoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interpersonal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Multiple Paths of Midlife Development
Author: Margie E. LachmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226467580
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
In this collection of fifteen papers, leading researchers analyze the middle years of the lifespan, paying close attention to the many different facets of adult development. They study the various changes involving the self and others that middle-aged adults experience in the realms of work, family, and health. This book explains how the different experiences interrelate and how a better understanding of them can foster successful midlife development.
Revising Herself
Author: Ruthellen JosselsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190283866
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In 1972, Ruthellen Josselson was a young psychologist fascinated by the riddle of how a woman creates an identity and chooses one path over another in life--particularly in the face of the nascent feminist movement, which challenged as never before the traditional role models of earlier generations. Selecting at random thirty young women in their last year of college, Josselson undertook a ground-breaking study that would follow these women's personal odysseys over the next twenty-two years, from graduation to midlife. What she learned about the ways women reinvent themselves in an ever-changing world is the subject of Revising Herself, a myth-shattering look at both a unique generation of American women on the front lines of wrenching social change, and at the conflicts and compromises facing women today. With stunning candor and hard-won insight, the "ordinary" (and anonymous) women in Josselson's study reveal how much more complex and interesting real women's lives are than the one-dimensional stereotypes often portrayed in the media. Dismissing a traditional "stage theory" of development as overly simplistic, Josselson identifies four trajectories that women take from adolescence to adulthood. Guardians are the "good girls"--high achieving and committed to fulfilling their family's expectations, but rigid in outlook and resistant to change. Pathmakers are not afraid of risk or commitment, striving to balance their own needs with others'. The often idealistic Searchers are overwhelmed by choice and unable to make commitments, while Drifters live only for the moment, avoiding choice and an exploration of identity. Reflecting the degree to which women take risks, make choices, and form commitments, these paths form a foundation for adulthood--but they also lead to surprises: at midlife, Guardians seem strikingly able to "cut loose" from earlier traditional patterns, while many Drifters have "found themselves," sometimes in quite traditional ways. And coming of age just as the feminist movement gathered momentum, the women in Josselson's study were the first to confront many contemporary issues not faced by their mothers, or their mothers' mothers: How does an Irish Catholic contemplate an abortion? How does a woman whose parents believe education is wasted on a daughter find the will to apply to medical school? In examining these questions and others, Josselson shows that the forging of a woman's identity--whatever her "path"--is ongoing, a balancing of the need for self-assertion against the equally compelling need for relationships. Women create their identities along the seams of both competence and connection and continually revise what they have made. Allowing women to define themselves in their own terms, Revising Herself holds up a provocative mirror in which readers can reflect upon their own life choices. Whether a Guardian, Pathmaker, Searcher, or Drifter, readers will recognize themselves in these women's experiences and gain new insight into how we construct our identities over a lifetime.
Mothers' and Daughters' Perceptions of Their Relationship and Separation in Late Adolescence
Author: Devorah Ruth SmithPublisher:
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Category : Adolescent psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The Midlife Mother's Experience of the Mother-adolescent Daughter Relationship
Author: Jordana GolanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780591817980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This study is a qualitative, heuristic investigation of the mid-life mother's experience of her relationship with her adolescent daughter. the purpose was to identify and understand the essential themes and meanings inherent in the experience. An heuristic research design and methodology guided the processes of preparation to conduct the investigation, methods of data collection and methods of analysis and synthesis of the data. the inquiry involved five phases: autobiographical origins and self reflection pertinent to the mother-daughter relationship; a review of relevant literature; an elucidation of heuristic theory and methodology; analysis and synthesis of the data; and a summary of the investigation including implications and outcomes. the researcher interviewed herself as well as nine co-researchers. the co-researchers were volunteers, all of whom met the criteria--adult women between the ages of 40 and 55; mothers of adolescent daughters between 13 and 20. Individual depictions, portraits, and a composite depiction were developed from tape recorded interview data. Common themes were revealed: the mother's experience of intense pain and anguish; reliving and resolving the mother's own adolescence; and coping with challenges and trials of growing and changing toward mid-life self-fulfillment. the research data pointed to triggers in the mother-daughter relationship that awaken the mother's own adolescent issues and also inspire self-discovery and personal and professional growth. the mothers in this research investigation claimed responsibility for their own lives and moved toward self-fulfilling choices and activities.
The Transition to Adulthood and Family Relations
Author: Eugenia ScabiniPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135424365
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This book explores the development of a new path of transition between adolescence and adulthood in recent generations. Whereas traditionally the transition into adulthood was marked by a clear and irreversible change in condition, we are now seeing a continuance in the role and influence of the family on the young adult. What consequences does this have for our society? Is the persistence of emotional bonds which previously loosened during adolescence, inhibiting young people from developing into full adulthood? The authors present a clear and in-depth analysis of the theoretical framework surrounding the transition into adulthood both from a generational point of view and a relationship-centred perspective. The findings of international research are presented and compared across generations, gender and geographical location within Europe. The different research methods of ‘family related research’ and ‘family research’ are also distinguished and analysed. This volume offers an original and multi-faceted review of this topic. The family is considered as an organization, and the interdependencies and interconnections between its members, the generations and genders investigated. It offers a unique contribution to the current literature and will appeal to an international audience of researchers, policy makers and educators both in academic and professional spheres.
Communication Among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters
Author: Michelle A. Miller-DayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135643326
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This volume examines communication processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective. Using observations of and extensive interviews with six sets of middle-income, Caucasian female family members, this book offers a heuristic account of intergenerational mother-daughter relational communication. Author Michelle Miller-Day integrates and juxtaposes alternative experiences of social interaction, situating readers in the world of grandmothers, mothers, adult daughters, and granddaughters as they experience, describe, and analyze their family communication. Miller-Day incorporates aged mothers and younger mid-life mothers and their adult daughters into the research to illustrate how this type of maternal relationship is experienced at different points in a woman's life. With the inclusion of three generations of women, Miller-Day offers multigenerational perspectives on family, and examines them for patterns of maternal interaction, providing symbolic links across generational boundaries. Communication Among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters enables readers to understand more completely the richly textured nature of maternal relationships. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers in the areas of communication and relationships, including family communication, intergenerational communication, women's studies, family studies, interpersonal communication, and relationships, as well as social workers, psychologists, and counselors, who strive to understand family communication processes and their dynamics across generational lines.
Kaplan and Sadock's Concise Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Author: Benjamin J. SadockPublisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 9780781793872
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book presents updated clinical material on child and adolescent psychiatry from the best-selling Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry, Tenth Edition. Coverage includes clinically relevant information on normal and abnormal development; examination; neuroimaging; learning, communication and behavioral disorders; adolescent substance abuse; forensic issues; and the spectrum of psychiatric problems such as depression and bipolar disorders. Treatment chapters include a broad range of psychopharmacotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic techniques, and the many controversies related to appropriate use of medication in children are addressed. The book is DSM-IV-TR compatible and replete with case studies and tables, including DSM-IV-TR tables.
The Course of Life: Latency, adolescence and youth
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Developmental psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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