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ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
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The huge and fractured literature on adolescence challenges
both students and scholars. For students there is too much to learn and too little
coherence across topics to enable deeper understanding. For scholars, there are few
integrative visions to connect minitheories, research programs, and practical concerns.
In the first edition of this advanced text, Moshman provided a constructivist synthesis of
the literatures of cognitive, moral, and identity development, from the classic
universalist theories of Piaget, Kohlberg, and Erikson through the more pluralist research
and theorizing of the late 20th century. Without assuming any prior knowledge of
psychology, he introduced and coordinated basic concepts to enable students to wrestle
with the questions of concern to experts and help experts see those concerns from a larger
perspective.
In this thoroughly updated second edition, Moshman develops his conceptualization of
advanced psychological development in adolescence and early adulthood and proposes--in a
new chapter--a conception of rational moral identity as a developmental ideal. Unlike the
prototypical changes of early childhood, advanced psychological development cannot be
understood as progress through universal stages to a universally achieved state of
maturity. Progress is possible, however, through rational processes of reflection,
coordination, and social interaction.
ORDER CODE:
EA0-8058-4830-4B
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