The Holistic Phase Model of Early Adult Crisis

Journal of Adult Development

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-37

  Robinson, Oliver C ^a   Wright, Gordon R T ^b   Smith, Jonathan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early adult crisis; Early adulthood; Emerging adulthood; Holistic; Life structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874355573     PISSN: 10680667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10804-013-9153-y     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Arnett, J. J. (2000). Emerging adulthood: A theory of development from the late teens through the twenties. American Psychologist, 55, 469-480.
2. Arnett, J. J. (2001). Conceptions of the transition to adulthood: Perspectives from adolescence through midlife. Journal of Adult Development, 8, 133-143.
3. Caplan, G. (1964). Principles of preventive psychiatry. New York: Basic Books Inc.
4. Denne, J. M., & Thompson, N. L. (1991). The experience of transition to meaning and purpose in life. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 22, 109-133.
5. Erikson, E. H. (1968). Identity, youth and crisis. New York: Norton.
6. Erikson, E. H. (1980). Identity and the life cycle. London: W. W. Norton & Co.
7. Finlay-Jones, R., & Brown, G. W. (1981). Types of stressful life event and the onset of anxiety and depressive disorders. Psychological Medicine, 11, 803-815.
8. Forer, B. R. (1963). The therapeutic value of crisis. Psychological Reports, 13, 275-281.
9. Freund, A. M., & Ritter, J. O. (2009). Midlife crisis: A debate. Gerontology, 55, 582-591.
10. Galambos, N. L., Turner, P. K., & Tilton-Weaver, L. C. (2005). Chronological and subjective age in emerging adulthood: The crossover effect. Journal of Adolescent Research, 20, 538-556.
11. Gould, R. L. (1978). Transformations: Growth and change in adult life. New York: Simon & Schuster.
12. Halpern, H. A. (1973). Crisis theory: A definitional study. Community Mental Health Journal, 9, 342-349.
13. Hollis, J. (1993). The middle passage: From misery to meaning in midlife. Toronto: Inner City Books.
14. Jung, C. G. (1966). The collected works of C. G. Jung-two essays on analytical psychology. London: Routledge.
15. Kegan, R., & Lahey, L. (2009). Immunity to change: How to overcome it and unlock the potential in yourself and your organization. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
16. Kierkegaard, S. (1996). Papers and journals: A selection (translated by A. Hannay). London: Penguin.
17. Kotre, J. (1995). White gloves: How we create ourselves through memory. New York: The Free Press.
18. Kumar, R., Marks, M. N., Wieck, A., Davies, R. A., McIvor, R., Brown, N., et al. (1997). Neuroendocrine mechanisms in postpartum psychosis and postnatal depression. Biological Psychiatry, 42, 130-131.
19. Lachman, M. E. (2004). Development in midlife. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 305-331.
20. Lazarus, R. S. (2000). Stress and emotion: A new synthesis. London: Free Association Books.
21. Levinson, D. J. (1978). The seasons of a man's life. New York: Ballantine Books.
22. Levinson, D. J. (1986). A conception of adult development. American Psychologist, 41, 3-13.
23. Levinson, D. J. (1996). The seasons of a woman's life. New York: Ballantine Books.
24. Lidz, T. (1976). The person: His and her development throughout the life cycle. New York: Basic Books, Inc.
25. Marcia, J. E. (1966). Development and validation of ego identity status. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 3, 551-558.
26. Marcia, J. E. (1993). The ego identity status approach to ego identity. In J. E. Marcia, A. S. Waterman, D. R. Matteson, S. L. Archer, & J. L. Orlofsky (Eds.), Ego-identity: A handbook for psychosocial research (pp. 3-21). New York: Springer-Verlag.
27. Maslow, A. H. (1998). Some basic propositions of a growth and self-actualization psychology. In C. L. Cooper & L. Pervin (Eds.), Personality: Critical concepts in psychology (pp. 189-202). London: Routledge.
28. McAdams, D. P. (1993). The stories we live by: Personal myths and the making of the self. New York: Guilford Press.
29. McManus, S., & Bebbington, P. (2009). Adult psychiatric morbidity in England, 2007: Results of a household survey. Leicester: National Centre for Social Research.
30. Moffitt, T. E., Harrington, H. L., Caspi, A., Kim-Cohen, J., Goldberg, D., Gregory, A. M., et al. (2007). Depression and generalized anxiety disorder: Cumulative and sequential comorbidity in a birth cohort followed to age 32. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 651-660.
31. Morgan, J., & Robinson, O. C. (2012). Intrinsic aspirations and personal meaning across adulthood: Conceptual inter-relations and age/sex differences. Developmental Psychology,. doi: 10. 1037/a0029237.
32. Murgatroyd, S., & Woolfe, R. (1982). Coping with crisis-understanding and helping people in need. New York: Harper and Row.
33. O'Connor, D. J., & Wolfe, D. M. (1987). On managing midlife transitions in career and family. Human Relations, 40(12), 799-816.
34. Parkes, C. M., & Weiss, R. S. (1983). Recovery from bereavement. New York: Basic Books.
35. Pasupathi, M. (2001). The social construction of the personal past and its implications for adult development. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 651-672.
36. Perosa, S. L., & Perosa, L. M. (1984). The mid-career crisis in relation to super's career and Erikson's adult development theory. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 20, 53-68.
37. Popper, K. R. (1959). The logic of scientific discovery. London: Hutchinson.
38. Robbins, A., & Wilner, A. (2001). Quarter-life crisis. London: Bloomsbury.
39. Robinson, O. C. (2008). Developmental crisis and the self in early adulthood: A composite qualitative analysis. Birkbeck College, London: Doctoral Dissertation.
40. Robinson, O. C. (2011). The idiographic/nomothetic dichotomy: Tracing historical origins of contemporary confusions. History and Philosophy of Psychology, 13, 32-39.
41. Robinson, O. C. (2012). Development through adulthood: An integrative sourcebook. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
42. Robinson, O. C. & Smith, J. A. (2008). Individual crisis episodes and cultural transition: Finding the macrocosm in the microcosm. 6th international conference on the dialogical self, Queens College, Cambridge University.
43. Robinson, O. C., & Smith, J. A. (2009). Metaphors and metamorphoses: Narratives of identity during times of crisis. In D. Robinson, P. Fisher, T. Yeadon-Lee, S. J. Robinson, & P. Woodcock (Eds.), Narrative, memory and identities (pp. 85-94). Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield Press.
44. Robinson, O. C., & Smith, J. A. (2010a). Investigating the form and dynamics of crisis episodes in early adulthood: The application of a composite qualitative method. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 7, 170-191.
45. Robinson, O. C., & Smith, J. A. (2010b). The stormy search for self in early adulthood: Developmental crisis and the dissolution of dysfunctional personae. The Humanistic Psychologist, 38, 120-145.
46. Sameroff, A. (2010). A unified theory of development: A dialectic integration of nature and nurture. Child Development, 81, 6-22.
47. Slaikeu, K. A. (1990). Crisis intervention-a handbook for practice and research (2nd ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
48. Wapner, S., & Demick, J. (1998). Developmental analysis: A holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective. In W. Damon & R. M. Lerner (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Volume 1: Theoretical models of human development (5th ed., pp. 761-805). Hoboken, NJ, US: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
49. Wapner, S., & Demick, J. (1999). Developmental theory and clinical practice: A holistic, developmental, systems-oriented approach. In W. K. Silverman & T. H. Ollendick (Eds.), Developmental issues in the clinical treatment of children (pp. 3-30). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
50. Waterman, A. S. (1993). Developmental perspectives on identity formation. In J. E. Marcia, A. S. Waterman, D. R. Matteson, S. L. Archer, & J. L. Orlofsky (Eds.), Ego-identity: A handbook for psychosocial research (pp. 42-68). New York: Springer-Verlag.
51. Wethington, E., Kessler, R. C., & Pixley, J. E. (2004). Turning points in adulthood. In O. G. Brim, C. D. Ryff, & R. C. Kessler (Eds.), How healthy are we? A national study of well-being at midlife (pp. 586-613). London: The University of Chicago Press.