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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Beginnings
• 2 A secure base
• 3 The developing child
• 4 Transitions and adolescence
• 5 Living independently
• 6 Sex, love, work and children
• 7 Maturity and some of its hazards
• 8 Adulthood and ageing
• 9 Dying, grief and mourning
• 10 Fitting the pieces together
• Essential background
• 1 The principles of heredity
• 2 Attachment theory
• 3 Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model
• 4 Psychoanalytic theories
• 5 Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
• 6 Erikson’s psychosocial theory of personality
• 7 The humanistic models of Maslow and Rogers
• 8 Learning and behavioural models
• 9 Models of ageing: social disengagement theory, activity theory, feminist perspectives and political economy theory
• 10 Three approaches to loss and grief
• Glossary
• References
• Index