Adult Development and Aging, with eBook Access Code: Biopsychosocial Perspectives
Presents an integrative, student-friendly approach to understanding the impact of biological, psychological and social processes on individuals throughout the aging process

Acclaimed for its depth, currency, and easily accessible presentation, Adult Development and Aging, helps students understand the aging process both in themselves and in those around them, approaching the subject from the biopsychosocial perspective: a model of adult development that takes into account the influences and interactions of complex biological, psychological, and social processes.

Authors Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Stacey B. Whitbourne explore the latest concepts and applications in this important discipline. Based on Susan's classroom experience teaching her Psychology of Aging course, this engaging textbook integrates current research, real-world data, detailed explanations, and relatable examples to provide a balanced and accessible examination of the subject.

Now in its eighth edition, this fully updated and revised textbook offers inclusive coverage of recent advances in neuroscience and genetics, cognitive functions, vocational development, sociocultural influences, mental health issues, health and prevention, and much more.

Adult Development and Aging: Biopsychosocial Perspectives, Eighth Edition, is an invaluable source of timely and relevant information for digital-native college learners and mature returning students alike, as well as for instructors and academic researchers in areas of adult aging and lifespan development.

AN INTERACTIVE, MULTIMEDIA LEARNING EXPERIENCE

This textbook includes access to an interactive, multimedia e-text. Icons throughout the print book signal corresponding digital content in the e-text.

Two threads of video content in the enhanced e-text engage students more deeply with the material:

  • Age Matters: Newly developed for the Eighth Edition, each chapter begins with an inviting video introduction to the chapter topic—outlining for students what they will read about, calling attention to key concepts, challenges, and pitfalls, and making connections with other chapters. Appearing with each chapter's summary, a longer and more personal Age Matters video lends real-world context to students' review of the chapter, with the authors offering insights drawn from their own work and life experience.
  • Psychology Concepts: A series of videos offering brief overviews of topics in general psychology, such as understanding memory and understanding personality, that come to bear in the discussion of adult development and aging.

Appearing throughout the enhanced e-text, interactive figures, diagrams, and tables facilitate study and help students retain important information. Even many of the simplest figures are interactive to encourage online readers to pause and absorb the information they present before scrolling on to additional reading.

Each chapter includes a self-scoring practice quizwith feedback at both question- and quiz-level to help students prepare for higher-stakes assessments and exams.

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Adult Development and Aging, with eBook Access Code: Biopsychosocial Perspectives
Presents an integrative, student-friendly approach to understanding the impact of biological, psychological and social processes on individuals throughout the aging process

Acclaimed for its depth, currency, and easily accessible presentation, Adult Development and Aging, helps students understand the aging process both in themselves and in those around them, approaching the subject from the biopsychosocial perspective: a model of adult development that takes into account the influences and interactions of complex biological, psychological, and social processes.

Authors Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Stacey B. Whitbourne explore the latest concepts and applications in this important discipline. Based on Susan's classroom experience teaching her Psychology of Aging course, this engaging textbook integrates current research, real-world data, detailed explanations, and relatable examples to provide a balanced and accessible examination of the subject.

Now in its eighth edition, this fully updated and revised textbook offers inclusive coverage of recent advances in neuroscience and genetics, cognitive functions, vocational development, sociocultural influences, mental health issues, health and prevention, and much more.

Adult Development and Aging: Biopsychosocial Perspectives, Eighth Edition, is an invaluable source of timely and relevant information for digital-native college learners and mature returning students alike, as well as for instructors and academic researchers in areas of adult aging and lifespan development.

AN INTERACTIVE, MULTIMEDIA LEARNING EXPERIENCE

This textbook includes access to an interactive, multimedia e-text. Icons throughout the print book signal corresponding digital content in the e-text.

Two threads of video content in the enhanced e-text engage students more deeply with the material:

  • Age Matters: Newly developed for the Eighth Edition, each chapter begins with an inviting video introduction to the chapter topic—outlining for students what they will read about, calling attention to key concepts, challenges, and pitfalls, and making connections with other chapters. Appearing with each chapter's summary, a longer and more personal Age Matters video lends real-world context to students' review of the chapter, with the authors offering insights drawn from their own work and life experience.
  • Psychology Concepts: A series of videos offering brief overviews of topics in general psychology, such as understanding memory and understanding personality, that come to bear in the discussion of adult development and aging.

Appearing throughout the enhanced e-text, interactive figures, diagrams, and tables facilitate study and help students retain important information. Even many of the simplest figures are interactive to encourage online readers to pause and absorb the information they present before scrolling on to additional reading.

Each chapter includes a self-scoring practice quizwith feedback at both question- and quiz-level to help students prepare for higher-stakes assessments and exams.

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Presents an integrative, student-friendly approach to understanding the impact of biological, psychological and social processes on individuals throughout the aging process

Acclaimed for its depth, currency, and easily accessible presentation, Adult Development and Aging, helps students understand the aging process both in themselves and in those around them, approaching the subject from the biopsychosocial perspective: a model of adult development that takes into account the influences and interactions of complex biological, psychological, and social processes.

Authors Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Stacey B. Whitbourne explore the latest concepts and applications in this important discipline. Based on Susan's classroom experience teaching her Psychology of Aging course, this engaging textbook integrates current research, real-world data, detailed explanations, and relatable examples to provide a balanced and accessible examination of the subject.

Now in its eighth edition, this fully updated and revised textbook offers inclusive coverage of recent advances in neuroscience and genetics, cognitive functions, vocational development, sociocultural influences, mental health issues, health and prevention, and much more.

Adult Development and Aging: Biopsychosocial Perspectives, Eighth Edition, is an invaluable source of timely and relevant information for digital-native college learners and mature returning students alike, as well as for instructors and academic researchers in areas of adult aging and lifespan development.

AN INTERACTIVE, MULTIMEDIA LEARNING EXPERIENCE

This textbook includes access to an interactive, multimedia e-text. Icons throughout the print book signal corresponding digital content in the e-text.

Two threads of video content in the enhanced e-text engage students more deeply with the material:

  • Age Matters: Newly developed for the Eighth Edition, each chapter begins with an inviting video introduction to the chapter topic—outlining for students what they will read about, calling attention to key concepts, challenges, and pitfalls, and making connections with other chapters. Appearing with each chapter's summary, a longer and more personal Age Matters video lends real-world context to students' review of the chapter, with the authors offering insights drawn from their own work and life experience.
  • Psychology Concepts: A series of videos offering brief overviews of topics in general psychology, such as understanding memory and understanding personality, that come to bear in the discussion of adult development and aging.

Appearing throughout the enhanced e-text, interactive figures, diagrams, and tables facilitate study and help students retain important information. Even many of the simplest figures are interactive to encourage online readers to pause and absorb the information they present before scrolling on to additional reading.

Each chapter includes a self-scoring practice quizwith feedback at both question- and quiz-level to help students prepare for higher-stakes assessments and exams.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781394223640
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 04/01/2025
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Susan Krauss Whitbourne, PhD, is a Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Adjunct Professor and Faculty Fellow in Gerontology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She received her doctorate in developmental psychology from Columbia University in 1974 and completed a postdoctoral training program in clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, having joined the faculty there in 1984. Her publications include 22 published books, many in multiple editions, and 200 journal articles and chapters. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Aging. In addition to her professional writing, she writes a blog for Psychology Today called "Fulfillment at Any Age" and has consulted for publications of the National Geographic Society in psychology.

Stacey B. Whitbourne, PhD, received her doctorate in social and developmental psychology from Brandeis University in 2005. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology. Currently, she is a research health scientist at the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Research Information Center (MAVERIC), a research center housed within the VA Boston Healthcare System. She serves as the Director of Cohort Development and Management for the Million Veteran Program, a longitudinal health and genomic cohort funded by the Department of Veteran's Affairs Office of Research and Development. Additionally, she is an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate epidemiologist at the Division of Aging at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Table of Contents

About the Authors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Themes and Issues in Adult Development and Aging

1.1 THE BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE

1.2 FOUR PRINCIPLES OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT AND AGING

1.3 THE MEANING OF AGE

1.4 Using Age to Define "Adult"

1.5 Divisions by Age of the Over-65 Population

1.6 Functional Age

1.7 Personal Versus Social Aging

1.8 KEY SOCIAL INDICATORS IN ADULT DEVELOPMENT AND AGING

1.9 THE DEMOGRAPHY OF AGING

1.10 SUMMARY

Chapter 2 Models of Development: Nature and Nurture in Adulthood

2.1 MODELS OF INDIVIDUAL-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS

2.2 SOCIOCULTURAL MODELS

2.3 PSYCHOLOGICAL MODELS

2.4 BIOLOGICAL MODELS

2.5 SUMMARY

Chapter 3 The Study of Adult Development and Aging: Research Methods

3.1 METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION

3.2 THE BASICS OF DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH

3.3 DESCRIPTIVE (SINGLE-FACTOR) RESEARCH DESIGNS

3.4 SEQUENTIAL RESEARCH DESIGNS

3.5 CORRELATIONAL DESIGNS

3.6 MEASUREMENT ISSUES IN ADULT DEVELOPMENT AND AGING

3.7 ETHICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCH

3.8 SUMMARY

Chapter 4 Physical Changes

4.1 APPEARANCE

4.2 MOBILITY

4.3 VITAL BODILY FUNCTIONS

4.4 BODILY CONTROL SYSTEMS

4.5 NERVOUS SYSTEM

4.6 SENSATION AND PERCEPTION

4.7 SUMMARY

Chapter 5 Health and Prevention

5.1 KEY CONCEPTS IN HEALTH AND PREVENTION

5.2 DISEASES OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

5.3 CANCER

5.4 DISORDERS OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM

5.5 DIABETES

5.6 KIDNEY DISEASE

5.7 RESPIRATORY DISEASES

5.8 NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDERS

5.9 Other Forms of Neurocognitive Disorder

5.10 SUMMARY

Chapter 6 Basic Cognitive Functions: Speed, Attention, and Memory

6.1 PROCESSING SPEED AND ATTENTION

6.2 MEMORY

6.3 SUMMARY

Chapter 7 Higher-Order Cognitive Functions

7.1 EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING

7.2 LANGUAGE

7.3 EVERYDAY PROBLEM-SOLVING

7.4 INTELLIGENCE

7.5 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WISDOM

7.6 SUMMARY

Chapter 8 Personality

8.1 PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORIES

8.2 TRAIT APPROACHES

8.3 SOCIAL COGNITIVE APPROACHES

8.4 MIDLIFE CRISIS THEORIES AND FINDINGS

8.5 SUMMARY

Chapter 9 Relationships

9.1 FAMILIES

9.2 FRIENDSHIPS

9.3 SUMMARY

Chapter 10 Work, Retirement, and Leisure Patterns

10.1 WORK PATTERNS IN ADULTHOOD

10.2 VOCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

10.3 VOCATIONAL SATISFACTION

10.4 AGE AND VOCATIONAL PERFORMANCE

10.5 RETIREMENT

10.6 LEISURE PURSUITS IN LATER ADULTHOOD

10.7 SUMMARY

Chapter 11 Mental Health Issues and Treatment

11.1 PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS IN ADULTHOOD

11.2 ELDER ABUSE

11.3 SUICIDE

11.4 TREATMENT ISSUES IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE

11.5 SUMMARY

Chapter 12 LONG-TERM CARE

12.1 INSTITUTIONAL FACILITIES FOR LONG-TERM CARE

12.2 FINANCING OF LONG-TERM CARE

12.3 Medicaid Benefits

12.4 QUALITY ISSUES IN LONG-TERM CARE

12.5 SUMMARY

Chapter 13 Death and Dying

13.1 WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT DEATH?

13.2 SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON DEATH AND DYING

13.3 PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DEATH AND DYING

13.4 ISSUES IN END-OF-LIFE CARE

13.5 BEREAVEMENT

13.6 SUMMARY

Chapter 14 Successful Aging

14.1 WHAT IS SUCCESSFUL AGING?

14.2 AGEISM 2.0

14.3 CREATIVITY AND AGING

14.4 Biopsychosocial Perspectives on Creativity and Aging

14.5 SUCCESSFUL AGING: FINAL PERSPECTIVES

14.6 SUMMARY

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