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Drawing from extensive developmental research, this book highlights the significance of meaning in shaping individual worldviews within relationships, from infancy onwards. By focusing on behavior and experience, it reshapes our understanding of pertinent psychological phenomena, tracing the emergence of self, self-regulation, causality comprehension, peer relationships, adolescent experiences, and lifelong adaptation. Using developmental psychology and compelling clinical cases, the authors emphasize the central role of 'meaning' as a unifying theme, addressing diverse topics such as resilience, intergenerational behavior patterns, trauma impacts, and existential meaning. Ideal for students and professionals in psychology, counselling, and social work, as well as researchers and clinicians in related fields, this book integrates existing theories and empirical evidence to illuminate various aspects of human development and adaptation.
Contents
Preface; Part I. The Beginning of Meaning: 1. The place of meaning; 2. Four features of meaning and its development; 3. The cradle of meaning; 4. Attachment theory: the rise of meaning in psychology; 5. Toddlerhood: the meaning of me; Part II. The Growth of Meaning: 6. The preschooler: the emergence of the person; 7. Middle childhood: me and my friends; 8. Adolescence:finding personal meaning; Part III. The Organized and Organizing Nature of Meaning: 9. Meaning as the currency of development; 10. The role of meaning in intergenerational transmission effects; 11. Competence, resilience, and the fate of early experience; Part IV. Meaning and Disturbance: 12. On the meaningfulness of disturbance; 13. Trauma and meaning; Part V. Integration and Conclusion: 14. Integration; 15. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
