Book description
This exceptional collection draws on the most recent demographic data
and combines classic research with cutting-edge approaches to provide an
invaluable overview of the developmental psychology of the adult years.
- Covers a wide range of topics within adult development and aging,
from theoretical perspectives to specific content areas
- Includes newly commissioned essays from the top researchers in the field
- Takes a biopsychosocial perspective, covering the biological,
psychological and social changes that occur in adulthood
Susan Krauss Whitbourne
is Professor of Psychology at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She
is the author of numerous publications including Abnormal Psychology:
Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
(6th
edition, with R. P. Halgin, 2009), Adult Development and Aging:
Biopsychosocial Perspectives
(4th Edition, Wiley, 2011, with S. B. Whitbourne), and The Search for
Fulfillment
(2010).
Martin Sliwinski is Director of the Gerontology Center and
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania
State University. He has written extensively on the relationship of
stress and disease to health, emotional well-being, and cognitive
function across the adult lifespan.
