The Implications of Life-Span Development for Counseling Psychology

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Recent research in adult personality and social development suggests that adults experience a number of predictable transitional and stable periods, each of which is characterized by specific developmental tasks. This research has implications for counseling psychologists' work with adult clients.

  • Adults do not experience any transitional or stable periods
  • Adults experience unpredictable transitional and stable periods
  • Adults experience predictable transitional and stable periods (correct)
  • Adults experience transitional and stable periods only in childhood

What do Levinson and his associates suggest about human development?

  • Human beings do not progress through a series of developmental stages
  • Human beings progress through a series of developmental stages (correct)
  • Human beings progress through a series of developmental stages only in childhood
  • Human beings progress through a series of developmental stages only in adulthood

What do counseling psychologists need to adopt a more positive view of, according to the text?

  • The roles that crises play in adult personality and career growth (correct)
  • The roles that crises play in adolescent personality and career growth
  • The roles that crises play in childhood personality and career growth
  • The roles that crises play in elderly personality and career growth

What are current models of personality and career development criticized for?

<p>Their failure to recognize the developmental processes that occur throughout adulthood (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What emerges during the transition from one developmental stage to another?

<p>Different needs and values (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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