Counselling and Life-Span Development

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Background of Development and Counselling ......13 The use of Age- Related normative information ..........15 Normal Development and life-span Stages..........47 Types of Counselling techniques .......66 2. Life-Sapan stages and Counseling ..........89 Infancy and early childhood : The prenatal Period ..........91 Later childhood: ages 6 to 12 The Elementary school Years..........141 Adolescence : Ages 12 to 21 The secondary school and post secondary years .....181 The yearly- adult years: Ages 21 to 40 ..................264 The mid-life years : Ages 40 t0 60..........264 The final Decades: Age 60 and beyond ......294 3. POstscript ..........327 The search for more answers .................329