Adult Life

Author : John Russon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438479521

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Adult Life by John Russon Pdf

What does it mean to be an adult? In this original and compelling work, John Russon answers that question by leading us through a series of rich reflections on the psychological and social dimensions of adulthood and by exploring some of the deepest ethical and existential issues that confront human life: intimacy, responsibility, aging, and death. Using his knowledge of the history of philosophy along with the combined resources of psychology, sociology, and anthropology, he explores the behavioral challenges of becoming an adult and examines the intimate relationships that are integral to healthy development. He also studies our experiences of time and space, which address both aging and the crucial role that our material environments play in the formation of our personalities. Of special note is Russon's provocative assessment of the economic and political contexts of contemporary adult life and the distinctive problems they pose. Engaging and accessible, Adult Life is for anyone seeking the profound lessons our human culture has learned about living well.

Author : Elizabeth Bartmess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Autism
ISBN : 1938800079

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Knowing Why by Elizabeth Bartmess Pdf

This anthology includes essays from a diverse group of adult-diagnosed autistic people. Our essays reflect the value of knowing why—why we are different from so many other people, why it can be so hard to do things others can take for granted, and why there is often such a mismatch between others' treatment of us and our own needs, skills, and experiences. Essay topics include recovering from burnout, exploring our passions and interests, and coping with sensory overload, especially in social situations.

Author : Jim Burns, Ph.D
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310353799

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Doing Life with Your Adult Children by Jim Burns, Ph.D Pdf

Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they've left the nest? Are you feeling the tension and heartache as your relationship dynamic begins to change? In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, bestselling author and parenting expert Jim Burns provides practical advice and hopeful encouragement for navigating this tough yet rewarding transition. If you've raised a child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when they turn eighteen. In many ways, your relationship gets even more complicated--your heart and your head are as involved as ever, but you can feel things shifting, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact. Doing Life with Your Adult Children helps you navigate this rich and challenging season of parenting. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to the most common questions he's received over the years, including: My child's choices are breaking my heart--where did I go wrong? Is it OK to give advice to my grown child? What's the difference between enabling and helping? What boundaries should I have if my child moves back home? What do I do when my child doesn't seem to be maturing into adulthood? How do I relate to my grown child's significant other? What does it mean to have healthy financial boundaries? How can I support my grown children when I don't support their values? Including positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season, Doing Life with Your Adult Children is a unique book on your changing role in a calling that never ends.

Author : Gail Sheehy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780698138667

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Passages by Gail Sheehy Pdf

Learn how to better navigate the challenges of adult life with Gail Sheehy’s landmark bestseller—named one of the ten most influential books of our times by the Library of Congress. For decades, Gail Sheehy’s Passages has been inspiring readers to see the predictable crises of adult life as opportunities for growth. She charts the stages between 18 and 50 as unfolding in a pattern of adult development: once recognized, more easily managed. Passages is an insightful road map of adulthood that illustrates with vivid stories our continuing personality and sexual changes throughout the “Trying 20s,” “Catch 30s,” “Forlorn 40s,” and “Refreshed (or Resigned) 50s.” One comment is continuously repeated by men, women, singles, couples, and people who recover from a midlife crisis: “This book changed my life.”

Author : Jenn Scott
Publisher : Acre Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1946724025

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Her Adult Life by Jenn Scott Pdf

The characters who populate Jenn Scott's debut collection are both trapped and adrift. Stuck in dead-end jobs or stagnant relationships or simply caught in the grip of their own inertia, they opt out, act out, and strike out, searching for emotional sustenance in a landscape of pointless patterns and dwindling hopes. Cuttingly clever remarks and excoriating observations act as shields--thrown up to protect an aching vulnerability, a bewildering sense of loss . . . of being lost in a world rife with expectations, where responsibility is ritualistic and meaning elusive. "The beauty of being young was, in fact, the ability to project all that might happen. She recognizes, suddenly, how less grandiose the projection of her plans has become. It's like she was once standing looking an expanse of field, but now she's trapped in a hallway hung with too many pastel prints of landscapes that refuse to interest her. It's as if she's moved her entire life inside a dental office, minus the gas that sings a person to sleep while their cavities are filled, their roots fixed." Assumed identities, Russian mail-order brides, pie theft, lost (and found) cleavers, coworkers who commit murder, the sudden ballooning of breasts, conversations with the (surprisingly opinionated) vegetables in a restaurant's walk-in cooler: in stories sharply funny and deeply poignant, situations that delight and discomfit, Scott explores "the complicated, or simple, ways in which we settle."

Author : Blimish Miller
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781982255817

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Adult Life ... by Blimish Miller Pdf

Use this life changing workbook and journal immediately after graduating from high school; before, during, and after college; before you enter the workforce; and before you move out on your own. This workbook was created to help you to prepare for and navigate through life by offering: Over 300 thought-provoking questions Positive affirmations Relatable personal stories Tips on how to be a responsible adult Insight on the truth about adulthood A step-by-step guide for creating your game plan for success Plenty of note pages for reflection Remember that becoming an adult is inevitable, but being a responsible adult is a mindset, a lifestyle, and a choice. What will you choose?

Author : Raysingh Meena
Publisher : Raysingh Meena
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Adult Life by Raysingh Meena Pdf

Adulthood can be a confusing and overwhelming time, but it is also filled with endless possibilities and opportunities for growth and fulfillment. This book is designed to help guide you through the journey of adult life and provide you with practical advice and tips to help you navigate the ups and downs of this exciting and transformative time. Whether you're just starting out on your adult journey or you're well into your adult years, This book will provide you with valuable insights and wisdom to help you lead a fulfilling and happy life.

Author : Charles M. Sell
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780310536611

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Transitions Through Adult Life by Charles M. Sell Pdf

This book not only describes life's crises, but also portrays the potential of life's transitions and seeks to offer answers to the problems it analyzes. It provides an overview of the various stages of adult life, what is typical in those stages, and how to deal with adults as they traverse the stages.

Author : Colin Murray Parkes,Holly G. Prigerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317850823

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Bereavement by Colin Murray Parkes,Holly G. Prigerson Pdf

The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives. This book recognises that there is no single solution to the problems of bereavement but that an understanding of grief can help the bereaved to realise that they are not alone in their experience. Long recognised as the most authoritative work of its kind, this new edition has been revised and extended to take into account recent research findings on both sides of the Atlantic. Parkes and Prigerson include additional information about the different circumstances of bereavement including traumatic losses, disasters, and complicated grief, as well as providing details on how social, religious, and cultural influences determine how we grieve. Bereavement provides guidance on preparing for the loss of a loved one, and coping after they have gone. It also discusses how to identify the minority in whom bereavement may lead to impairment of physical and/or mental health and how to ensure they get the help they need. This classic text will continue to be of value to the bereaved themselves, as well as the professionals and friends who seek to help and understand them.

Author : Sarah Fels Usher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317218418

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Separation-Individuation Struggles in Adult Life by Sarah Fels Usher Pdf

Separation-Individuation Struggles in Adult life: Leaving Home focuses on the developmental task of separating from parents and siblings for individuals and couples who have not been able to resolve these issues earlier in life. Sarah Fels Usher extends Mahler’s theory, and includes the writing of Loewald and Modell, among others, stressing the right of adult patients to a separate life. She describes the predicament of Oedipal victors (or victims), their introjected feelings of responsibility for their parents, and their resultant inability to be truly individuated adults. Difficulties separating from siblings are also given analytic attention. Usher’s experience treating couples adds a new and powerful dimension to her theory. She is optimistic throughout about the therapist’s ability to help adult patients resolve the rapprochement sub-phase in a satisfying manner. An additional, crucial question is raised when the author asks if the therapist can allow the patient to terminate treatment. Has the therapist achieved separation from their own parents—or, indeed, from their analyst? Exploring the plight of patients of the unseparated analyst, Usher describes how these generational factors rear their unfortunate heads when it is time to end therapy. Listening to patients from the perspective of separation-individuation is not new; what is new is Usher’s emphasis on how these particular issues are often masked by significant achievement in adult professional life. Separation-Individuation Struggles in Adult Life: Leaving Home will be of great importance for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists working with adults, as well as for clinical postgraduate students.

Author : Dario Spini,Eric Widmer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811945670

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Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life by Dario Spini,Eric Widmer Pdf

This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES research program hosted by the universities of Lausanne and Geneva, within a single comprehensive and coherent publication on vulnerability across adulthood. The book is based on the idea that vulnerability is an essential component of the life course that can inform how we use our resources, reserves and cope with stressors across the life course. It provides a unique interdisciplinary research framework based on the idea that vulnerability is a complex and dynamic process that can only be approached through a multidimensional, multilevel, and multidirectional perspective. This is an invaluable new resource for students and researchers in life course studies, and those from other disciplines willing to include life course factors in their research on vulnerability issues.

Author : National Recreation Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Adult education
ISBN : WISC:89054055249

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Program Suggestions for the Enrichment of Adult Life by National Recreation Association Pdf

Author : Evidence to Care, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital,Transitions Strategy Team, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitatio Hospital
Publisher : Bloorview Research Institute
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780920899069

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Designing solutions for transitions from childhood to adult life for youth with disabilities: A guide for service providers, organizations, and system leaders by Evidence to Care, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital,Transitions Strategy Team, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitatio Hospital Pdf

This guide offers a blueprint for co-designing and refreshing evidence-informed, needs-based solutions. Written for service providers, organizations, and system leaders who support transitions to adult life for young people with disabilities, across healthcare, community, education, and social service sectors. The digestible content and visually appealing graphic design makes the guide easy to read and navigate, allowing you to choose which sections are most relevant to you. Start with an introduction to using evidence and best practices in transition practice. Then read about our transformative approach to solution design, presented in four key tenets (Frameworks, Solution-focused approach, Human centered design, and Collaboration). To see how we put these tenets in action, skip ahead to four examples of transitions solutions implemented at Canada’s largest pediatric rehabilitation hospital (Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital). To action the tenets in your own practice, use the evidence-informed and practice-based supporting materials in the two appendices. Each section contains valuable resources, tools, and tips for your practice.

Author : Rosa Cukier
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781435706453

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Emotional Survival:Childhood Pain Relived in the Drama of Adult Life by Rosa Cukier Pdf

The relational and emotional needs of babies and small children, when not systematically met, will generate feelings of low self-esteem, shame and humiliation. These feelings will remain at the core of the personality, covered up in various forms, ranging from a hurt child living inside an adult’s body or a ‘false self’ of an apparently successful and narcissistic adult, or even like the complex borderline disorder in case of which the individual pushes away the people they need most. This book presents powerful techniques that can be applied in an intense therapeutic relationship, which help bring into the light this ‘ghost-child’ and enable reparatory work of the childhood wounds. It is a must-read for all therapists, teachers and relatives of adults and adolescents who struggle with childhood issues of abandonment, abuse and violence.

Author : Karen Moritz,E. Marelyn Wintour-Coghlan,M. Jane Black,John F. Bertram,Georgina Caruana
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783540777687

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Factors Influencing Mammalian Kidney Development: Implications for Health in Adult Life by Karen Moritz,E. Marelyn Wintour-Coghlan,M. Jane Black,John F. Bertram,Georgina Caruana Pdf

In this monograph the authors have emphasized a number of important concepts in mammalian kidney development. Emphasis has been put on methodology so that the reader can understand how certain results or conclusions were reached and what the optimal methods for reliable results to be obtained are. In addition, as well as descriptions of the morphology there is information on the genetic basis of the structural development. In addition much attention has been paid to how nephron number may be altered by changes in the environment of the developing kidney and to the consequences for the remaining nephron gene expression and kidney function when total nephron number is altered. The consequences for the health of the adult, upon the formation of an adult kidney with altered nephron number and (potentially) gene expression, can be quite serious. The epigenetic mechanisms by which such changes can occur are introduced as a very fertile field for future investigation.