CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
Department Name:
COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY
Program:
Graduate
Course Number and Title:
CCP630CA03: Human Development Across the Lifespan
CCA785CA03: Human Psychological Development
Irle M. Goldman, Ph.D.
56 Fairmont Ave.
Newton, MA 02458
617-332-3242, irlegoldman@gmail.com
Instructor:
You can contact me either by email or phone and you should receive a response within 24 hours
during the week. If you would like to meet with me individually, contact me by phone or email and
we can usually arrange a time before or after class.
Course Dates: Course Time and Location,
Fri 4/17 9:30am-5:30pm
Sun 4/19 9:30am-5:30pm
Fri 5/1 9:30am-5:30pm
Sun 5/3 9:30am-5:30pm
(Formerly CCP630 Human Psychological Development) This course will address all aspects of
Human Development from Conception through Childhood, Adolescence, Early Adulthood, MidLife and Aging. Psychological, Biological, Familial, Environment and Cultural factors will be
explored as they impact the development of people across the continuum of life. Theory will
combine with application related to physical, emotional, cognitive, moral, and vocational
adjustment. The processes of physical and psychological development including ethnic and
gender differences will be studied.
Using readings, videos, portfolios, experiential exercises, discussions, and lectures we will
explore the nature of development based on your experiences. We will discuss the areas that
developmental research has described as the most important: relationships, work, and spirit. We
will explore how what happened to you in the past can affect your future and how this can be
shaped to create the future more in liking with your wishes.
Course Objectives:
1) To learn how Eriksonian and other theories describe the underpinnings of adult
development.
2) To explore your own developmental history in order to understand and frame the
possibilities for your development.
3) To understand how your psychological state of being affects your physical health.
4) To understand how relationships are key to adult development.
5) To experience and conceptualize how relationships work for you and challenge you in life
and in this class.
6) To explore the underpinnings of happiness in your lives and in the culture at large.
7) To understand how the notion of ‘flow’ can help you to what is most satisfying in your
lives.
8) To understand the nature of resilience.
9) To explore how spirituality contributes to your identity and understanding of the world.
10) To integrate the different aspects of Human Development in a way that can help to make
them yours and retain them.
Required Readings
Book: Vaillant, George. (2002) Aging Well, Little Brown and Co. ($5 on amazon)
Crain: Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications. (5th edition is fine, costs $10 on
amazon)
Articles, etc. Required (To be distributed or available online.):
1) Erikson summary: Businessballs
2) Butler, K. (1997, March/April). The anatomy of resilience. Family Therapy Networker, pp.
22-31.
3) Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1999). If we are so rich, why aren’t we happy? American
Psychologist. 54,10. pp. 821-827.
4) Germer,C. (2006, Jan/Feb). You Gotta Have Heart. Psychotherapy Networker. .
5) Kagan, J. (1998, Sept/Oct). How we become who we are. Family Therapy Networker,
pp. 52-63.
6) Layton, M. (1995, Nov). Mastering mindfulness. Family Therapy Networker, pp. 2830,5.7
7) Myers, D. G. (2000). The funds, friends, and faith of happy people. American
Psychologist. 55, pp. 56-67.
8) Wylie, M. (2004, Sept./Oct). Mindsight. Psychotherapy Networker. pp. 29-39.
9) Goldman, I. (2004). Why do I teach?, unpublished.
Course Requirements and Grading:
1. Course AssignmentsAttendance and Class Participation:
This course is built around the three P’s: Portfolio, Presentation, Paying
It Forward.
Portfolio: Starting with the exercises in class, and using various creative
modalities, (art, quotes, music, video, etc etc etc) you will collect and
create materials that help you to explore the various facets of your life
that we are discussing in class.
Presentation: A 10 minute presentation of the story of your life. It is an
attempt at integrating, in a compassionate and creative way the story of
your life from the perspective of the ten aspects/lifestages that we will
review in class. Use powerpoint and/or drawings , pictures, poetry,
songs, sand, clay, etc. etc. etc. to show the class who you are and why.
We will discuss these presentations at length during our early classes.
Paying It Forward: As an integral part of this class, I would like you to
take what you have learned about human development and your own
life to help others…(this could include clients, family and friends) and
integrate these experiences into your portfolio and papers.
Papers: are the way you have of organizing and integrating and
coherently describing the material in your portfolio. After each day, I
will ask you to integrate those stages/aspects that we discuss and inform
them with quotes from the videos and readings.
Midterm: A 5-15 page paper (which will be the first part of your final)
describing who you are, based on the various aspects we will have
already covered in class.
Integrate quotes from the readings (at least 4 different articles plus the
two books) and the videos. Be creative, using pictures, audio files,
videos, etc.
Add to that the five most important things you have learned in this class
(1-3 sentences each);
And how you have paid it forward
And feedback about how this class is going for you (books, videos,
exercises, my teaching style, etc.
Final: Add to your midterm, the rest of the ten stages, etc. being
integrative, compassionate, creative and paying it forward (in 10-30
pages).
Active participation in class, group exercises, presentations, interaction with
each other, listening, and ability to give reflective feedback (including on the
discussion board on my.lesley.edu) are essential. Therefore your regular and
punctual attendance is necessary. Missing more than 4 hours will jeopardize
passing the course and affect your grade
Class attendance and Participation: 25%
Presentation: 15%
Portfolio and Journal: 15%
Midterm reaction paper: 20%
Final: 25%
Presentations: You will be asked to prepare a presentation, either individually or with others,
that integrates your personal developmental history, a stage of development, and one of the
developmental theories (Gilligan, Piaget, Kohlberg, etc.).
Dates and assignments are tentative : Pay attention to the emails
I will send you weekly!
Class,
Date,
Subject
Reading
1. 4/17
Fri
Intros
Getting to
Businessballs know you
2. 4/17
Fri
Culture
3. Fri
4/17
4. 4/19
Sun
5. 4/19
Sun
6. 4/19
Sun
7. 5/1
Fri
8. 5/1
Fri
9. 5/1
Fri
10. 5/3
Sun
11. 5/3
Kagan
Butler
Family
Trust/Mistrust
Wylie
Autonomy/Doubt
Chu
Exercises
Videos
Map
V: Erikson
genogram
Blind walk
V:Bowlby
Breaking in
Initiative/Guilt
V:Piaget
Industry/Inferiority
Midterms due
Identity/Role Diffusion Myers
Intimacy/Isolation
Germer
Generativity/Stagnation Csik.
Presentations
Integration/Despair
Treadway
Who are
you…
Masks
V:
Vygotsky
Vaillant,
Crain
chapters
V: 1
C: Early
V:2
C:Darwin
V:3
C: Freud
V:4
C:Bowlby
V:5
C:
V:6
C:
V:7
C: Learning
V:8
C: Bandura
V:9, 10
C:
V:11,12
C:
Reflections
video
Sun
12. 5/3
Sun
Presentations
Presentations,
Putting it all together
Ethical will
C:Kohlberg
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