COUN109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Robert Schumann, Deeper Understanding, Mindset
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Adult development, life changes and methods of adjustment. Challenges = normative life events = career, marriage, parenting, retirement: unexpected challenges = non-normative life events = unanticipated illness or financial crisis. Luckily for the world, he created a new life for himself as a composer. Stage or growth models recognizable stages that need to be addressed at different stages. Life-course models personality development as a continuous process of adjustment to challenges bases on life phrases. Lifespan models social-role demands emphasised at each phrase particularly sensitive to cultural and historical differences in social-role expectations. The most influential model of life stages in western psychology: describes the impact of social experience across the whole lifespan. Greater (cid:373)aturity i(cid:374) adulthood is associated (cid:449)ith (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t through erikso(cid:374)"s stages a(cid:374)d resolutio(cid:374) of stage crisis. Generativity is the responsibility for each generation of adults. To bear, nurture, and guide those people who will succeed them as adults.
