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Applied Developmental Systems Science Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Theories, Meta-Theories, Methods, and Interventions but Didn't Realize You Needed to Ask. An Advanced Textbook Ellen Skinner

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Open textbook libraryDistributor: Minneapolis, MN Open Textbook LibraryPublisher: [Place of publication not identified] Portland State University Library [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • H1
  • HM586
  • BL1
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Contents:
Section I: Goals of Developmental Science, Theories, and Target Phenomena -- Section II: Metaphors and Meta-theories in Applied Developmental Science -- Section III: Systems Meta-theories -- Section IV: Relational Developmental Systems Meta-theories -- Section V: Study of Development: Description -- Section VI: Study of Development: Explanation -- Section VII: Study of Development: Optimization
Subject: This textbook provides a toolbox, a guidebook, and an instruction manual for researchers and interventionists who want to conceptualize and study applied problems from a developmental systems perspective, and for those who want to teach their graduate (or advanced undergraduate) students how to do this. It is designed to be useful to practitioners who focus on applied developmental problems, such as improving the important developmental contexts where people live, learn, and work, including the applied professions in education, social work, counseling, health care, community development, and business, all of which at their core are concerned with optimizing the development of their students, clients, patients, workers, citizens, and others whose lives they touch.
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Section I: Goals of Developmental Science, Theories, and Target Phenomena -- Section II: Metaphors and Meta-theories in Applied Developmental Science -- Section III: Systems Meta-theories -- Section IV: Relational Developmental Systems Meta-theories -- Section V: Study of Development: Description -- Section VI: Study of Development: Explanation -- Section VII: Study of Development: Optimization

This textbook provides a toolbox, a guidebook, and an instruction manual for researchers and interventionists who want to conceptualize and study applied problems from a developmental systems perspective, and for those who want to teach their graduate (or advanced undergraduate) students how to do this. It is designed to be useful to practitioners who focus on applied developmental problems, such as improving the important developmental contexts where people live, learn, and work, including the applied professions in education, social work, counseling, health care, community development, and business, all of which at their core are concerned with optimizing the development of their students, clients, patients, workers, citizens, and others whose lives they touch.

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