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A. Rui Gomes; Liliana Fontes; Ana Cristina Costa Figueiredo – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2023
Life skills are personal resources that can be trained and applied in a specific situation and transferred to other contexts. The growing body of research has shown that intervention programs produce positive results in learning and transferring life skills. Nonetheless, there is a need to clarify the efficacy of life skills training, namely the…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Training, Models, Skill Development
Meeus, Wim – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Four longitudinal models are used to present a short review of research into adolescent psychosocial development. This review reveals adolescent development to proceed in a regular manner. This process of regular development suggests that it might be possible to uncover rules of intra-individual development. The aim of this paper is to propose a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Individual Development, Developmental Continuity
Petters, Dean David – Developmental Psychology, 2019
From his first attempts to explain attachment phenomena in the 1940s through his "Attachment and Loss" trilogy (Bowlby, 1969/1982, 1973, 1980), John Bowlby reformulated the theoretical underpinnings of attachment theory several times. He initially attempted to explain attachment phenomena in psychoanalytic terms. Then he invoked…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Systems Approach, Cognitive Science, Theories
López-Ropero, Lourdes – Children's Literature in Education, 2020
New developments in the field of youth studies are calling for a reorientation of discourses of adolescence away from developmental tropes of transition, crisis, and dysfunction, and towards a more fluid sociocultural framework. Meg Rosoff's acclaimed novel "How I Live Now" (2004) achieves a balance that transcends the pitfalls of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Developmental Stages, Adolescent Development, Literary Devices
Karibeeran, Sathyamurthi; Mohanty, Shefali – Online Submission, 2019
Adolescence is a period of heightened emotionality. If the adolescents cannot perceive, understand, regulate and function with their emotions it will leave indelible marks on their behaviour and personality. During adolescence (age 12 to 18 yrs), the transition from childhood to adulthood is most important. Children are becoming more independent,…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Social Development
Malti, Tina – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
This article introduces a developmental perspective on kindness. The central goal is to posit a new framework for the study of kindness and its development. From an ethical perspective, kindness can be considered a virtue. It reflects emotions, cognitions, and inner states that convey a particular gentleness and benevolence. These orientations can…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Models, Intervention, Developmental Stages
Jabès, Adeline; Nelson, Charles A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
In 1995, Nelson published a paper describing a model of memory development during the first years of life. The current article seeks to provide an update on the original work published 20 years ago. Specifically, we review our current knowledge on the relation between the emergence of explicit memory functions throughout development and the…
Descriptors: Memory, Neurosciences, Scientific Research, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Hazel, Cynthia E. – APA Books, 2016
Positive youth development is a strengths-based, positive psychology approach to fostering adolescents' educational engagement and achievement. It focuses not just on students' academic development but also on their vocational, social, and emotional development. The positive youth development philosophy is at the heart of Cynthia Hazel's unique…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Academic Achievement, Holistic Approach, Social Development
Rogers, Katrina S. – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: The paper's aim is to explore the connection between individual worldviews, called ecological selves, and organizational change, which allows people to create the conditions to confront the global environmental challenges they face as a species. Design/methodology/approach: The essay is a conceptual one, with reference to a small…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Ecology, Organizational Change, Developmental Stages
Morgan, Jeff – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2011
Cultural sensitivity theory is the study of how individuals relate to cultural difference. Using literature to help students prepare for study abroad, instructors could analyze character and trace behavior through a model of cultural sensitivity. Milton J. Bennett has developed such an instrument, The Developmental Model of Intercultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Ethnocentrism, Cultural Awareness, Study Abroad
Moore, D. G.; George, R. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2011
Across many academic disciplines visualisation and notation systems are used for modelling data and developing theory, but in child development visual models are not widely used; yet researchers and students of developmental difficulties may benefit from a visualisation and notation system which can clearly map developmental outcomes and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Visualization, Models, Developmental Stages
Gestsdottir, Steinunn; Urban, Jennifer Brown; Bowers, Edmond P.; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; Lerner, Richard M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
The positive youth development (PYD) perspective emphasizes that thriving occurs when individual [double arrow] context relations involve the alignment of adolescent strengths with the resources in their contexts. The authors propose that a key component of this relational process is the strength that youth possess in the form of self-regulatory…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Probability, Adolescent Development, Self Control
McKeough, Anne; Malcolm, Jennifer – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
Research has shown that a hallmark of adolescent development is the growing capacity to interpret human intentionality. In this chapter, the authors examine developmental change in this capacity, which they have termed interpretive thought, in two types of stories, family and autobiographical, told by Canadian youth aged ten to seventeen years.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Self Concept, Developmental Stages
Buettner, Edwin G. – Online Submission, 2011
Though its popularity has waxed and waned, cloze continues to be regarded as an instructional strategy for the fostering of reading comprehension. This article takes the view of cloze as one tactic in support of strategy instruction, rather than a strategy in its own right. In contrast to the formulaic applications of cloze for assessment…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Developmental Stages, English (Second Language)
Anderson, Mike – Educational Leadership, 2011
Fourth grade is a pivotal year, in which students commonly face increased academic demands. According to Anderson, teachers can help students make a smooth transition to 4th grade by introducing these new challenges in ways that are in line with 4th graders' common developmental characteristics: incredible energy and emotion, industriousness and…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Classroom Environment