- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (25 Mar 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140125698
- ISBN-13: 978-0140125696
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 174,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a book about growing up - the process of development from the cradle to the coffin and all the life changes in between. It covers growth from infancy to adolescence and beyond including changes at puberty and responses to it, social relationships including attachment to parents and later to partners, family interaction, the development of language and intelligence, emotional development, psychosexual development, stress, aggression and work.
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The development of children is a never-ending source of wonder to all fond parents and grandparents. Read the first page
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Incoherent, boring and no new insights
3 Jan 2002
Format:Hardcover
Professor Sir Michael Rutter may be one of the world's leading theorists of development, but this book, written together with his wife Marjorie, is as incoherent as the man's articles. It moves away from the traditional big developmental theories and views development as a dynamic process adopting a life-span perspective and emphasizing the need to consider both continuities and discontinuities and both risk and protective mechanisms.
Some sections on the abnormal (anxiety, aggression, alzheimer) are quite interesting, focusing on the question whether these developments are extreme versions of normal development or something qualitatively different. Unfortunately the greater part of the book (especially the first three chapters, which gave me the idea that the authors have really nothing to say) is rather unchallenging and boring, using findings from not so exciting research.
The biggest problem, though, is that the book jumps from topic to topic. This incoherence makes it not very easily readable. The authors aimed to explain the universal aspects of maturation as well as the individuality in development, but they end up giving either unsatisfactory and ambiguous answers or very simple, common sense explanations (the chapter on adolescence). It would have been nice if Mr and Mrs Rutter would have added a conclusion or summary to each chapter so that it would have been clearer what the main points of each chapter were. Sometimes one even gets the feeling that there is no point at all, that one is just reading about a number of research findings without a good connecting point or argument.
This book should have offered me new, challenging insights. It did not. What a shame.
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