Handbook of Adult Development

I. Introductory Theory and Method.- 1. Theory in Adult Development: The New Paradigm and the Problem of Direction.- 2. Learning in Adulthood.- 3. Developmental Change in Adulthood.- 4. Adult Development: The Holistic, Developmental, and Systems-Oriented Perspective.- 5. Research Methods in Adult Development.- II Biocognitive Development in Adulthood.- 6. Multiple Perspectives on the Development of Adult Intelligence.- 7. Age-Related Changes in Memory.- 8. The Ontogeny of Wisdom in Its Variations.- 9. Psychological Approaches to Wisdom and Its Development.- 10. Reflective Thinking in Adulthood: Emergence, Development, and Variation.- 11. Four Postformal Stages.- 12. Postformal Thought and Adult Development: Living in Balance.- 13. Developmental Trajectories and Creative Work in Late Life.- 14. The Development of Possible Selves During Adulthood.- 15. The Good Life: A Longitudinal Study of Adult Value Reasoning.- 16. Moral Metacognition in Adolescence and Adulthood.- 17. Protest, Collaboration, and Creat on of Alternative Models: Women’s Health Activists Using the Internet.- 18. Gender Differences in Intellectual and Moral Development? The Evidence that Refutes the Claim.- III. Social Development in Adulthood.- 19. Attachment Theory and Research: Contributions for Understanding Late Adolescent and Young Adult Development.- 20. Adult Development and Parenthood: A Social-Cognitive Perspective.- 21. Superwomen Raising Superdaughters: Whatever Happened to Black Girlhood?.- 22. Revisions: Processes of Development in Midlife Women.- 23. Eldercare and Personality Development in Middle Age.- 24. Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships and the Life Course Perspective.- 25. “Roots that Clutch”: What Adoption and Foster Care Can Tell Us About Adult Development.- 26. Swords intoPlowshares: The Recovery Ethics of Destructive Adult Development.- 27. Discursive Practices and Their Interpretation in the Psychology of Religious Development: From Constructivist Canons to Constructivist Alternatives.- 28. Adult Development and the Practice of Psychotherapy.- 29. Executive Development as Adult Development.- 30. Community Service and Adult Development.- Epilogue.