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Downing, Charles J. – Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, 1984
Presents a framework of developmental tasks which focuses on growth over the life span. Tasks include competence, sex role identity, capacity for meaningful relationships, independence, personal purpose, integrity, and acceptance of the world. Limitations of the approach and implications for counselors are discussed. (JAC)
Descriptors: Behavior, Classification, Counseling Theories, Developmental Tasks
Kerr, Barbara A. – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1986
Career development of creatively gifted adults consists of three tasks: (1) dealing with career decision problems, (2) finding training and support, and (3) maintaining productivity. Counselors can help clients face these tasks by emphasizing values in decision making, keeping abreast of innovations, and identifying and treating productivity…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adult Counseling, Adults, Career Counseling
Campbell, Susan B. – 2002
This book provides a comprehensive clinical-developmental framework for understanding and treating behavior problems in early childhood. Examining the developmental tasks and transitions that young children face in cognitive, social, and family contexts, the book helps readers distinguish between typical, age-appropriate behaviors and those that…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Tasks
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Trepal, Heather C.; Semivan, Suzanne Gibson; Caley-Bruce, Mary – Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2005
Pregnancy is a developmental task that requires women to become accustomed to inherent and sometimes profound biological, somatic, and psychological changes. When pregnancy is interrupted by miscarriage, it may become a pivotal crisis point in the development of a woman's maternal identity as well as an issue in family development. This manuscript…
Descriptors: Females, Pregnancy, Developmental Tasks, Prenatal Influences
Klimek, David; Anderson, Mary – 1988
This monograph was written to help teachers, counselors, and parents who live and work with adolescents. It explains the psychological tasks of adolescence, separation from parents, and identity formation. Guidelines are provided for adolescent and parental development in several areas. An overview of regressive adaptation focuses on expressions…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Affective Behavior
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Phelps, Christine E. – Roeper Review, 1991
Necessary developmental tasks concerned with identity development of gifted college women include developing competence, managing emotions, developing autonomy, establishing identity, freeing interpersonal relationships, developing purpose, and developing integrity. These issues may be used as counseling interventions to raise career aspirations.…
Descriptors: College Students, Competence, Counseling, Developmental Tasks
Johnson, Roy E. – 1983
Part 1 of this dissertation contains an introductory chapter entitled, "The Children Shout Fight Fight," in which the written analytical process named Scriptotherapy is discussed. In Chapter 1, "Early Adolescence an Ongoing Process," early adolescent growth and development, the process of moral development, temperament types…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Case Studies, Communication Skills