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1 online resource (xiii, 351 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-343) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Biography in Adult Development and Aging / J.-E Ruth and G.M. Kenyon -- 2. The Meaning/Value of Personal Storytelling / G.M. Kenyon -- 3. Emotionality and Continuity in Biographical Contexts / W. Mader -- 4. Studying Older Lives: Reciprocal Acts of Telling and Listening / B.J. Choler and T.K. Cole -- 5. Narrative Knowing and the Study of Lives / D.E. Polkinghorne -- 6. Competence and Quality of Life: Theoretical Views of Biography / T. Svensson -- 7. The Fractal Structure of Lives: Continuity and Discontinuity in Autobiography / J.J.F. Schroots -- 8. Narrating the Self in Adulthood / D.P. McAdams -- 9. The Complexity of Personal Narratives / B. de Vries and A.J. Lehman -- 10. Ways of Life: Old Age in a Life History Perspective / J.-E. Ruth and P. Oberg -- 11. Experienced Aging as Elucidated by Narratives / R.-L. Heikkinen -- 12. Beyond Life Narratives in the Therapeutic Encounter / K.J. Gergen. |
| Summary |
Personal life narratives can serve as a rich source of new insights into the experience of human aging. In this comprehensive volume, an international team of editors and contributors provide effective approaches to using biography to enhance our understanding of adult development. In addition to providing new theoretical aspects on aging and biography, the book also details new developments concerning the practical use of different biographical approaches in both research and clinical work. This is a landmark volume advancing the use of narrative approaches in gerontology. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Adulthood.
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Adulthood. |
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Aging.
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Aging. |
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Gerontology -- Biographical methods.
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Gerontology -- Biographical methods. |
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Social sciences -- Biographical methods.
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Social sciences -- Biographical methods. |
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Adaptation, Psychological. |
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Autobiographies as Topic -- psychology. |
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Aging. |
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Aged -- psychology. |
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Personality Development. |
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Aged. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Birren, James E.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Aging and biography. New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©1996 (DLC) 95002876 (OCoLC)32395961 |
| ISBN |
9780826189820 (electronic book) |
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0826189822 (electronic book) |
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0826189806 |
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9780826189806 |
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9780826189813 |
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