Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : why a dynamic systems approach to fostering human development? / Alan Fogel, Barbara J. King, and Stuart G. Shanker
  • pt. I. Dynamic relationships between genetics and environments. Developmental dynamics : the new view from the life sciences / Robert Lickliter
  • Genes, experience, and behavior / Timothy D. Johnston
  • How dynamic systems have changed our minds / Ken Richardson
  • Individual development as a system of coactions : implications for research and policy / Gilbert Gottlieb and Carolyn Tucker Halpern
  • Gene-environment interactions and inter-individual differences in rhesus monkey behavioral and biological development / Stephen J. Suomi
  • pt. II. The dynamic system of the child in the family. Relationships that support human development / Alan Fogel
  • The impact of emotions and the emotional impact of a child's first words / Stuart G. Shanker
  • Emotional habits in brain and behavior : a window on personality development / Marc D. Lewis
  • Creating family love : an evolutionary perspective / Barbara J. King
  • pt. III. The dynamic system of the child in social and physical environment. The tempest : anthropology and human development / Peter Gow
  • An anthropology of human development : what difference does it make? / Christina Toren
  • The social child / Tim Ingold
  • Learning about human development from a study of educational failure / Gillian Evans
  • Dynamic views of education / Lynette Friedrich Cofer
  • Embodied communication in non-human animals / Barbara Smuts
  • Children in the living world : why animals matter for children's development / Gail F. Melson
  • pt. IV. Dynamic systems approaches to mental health. A dynamic developmental model of mental health and mental illness / Stanley I. Greenspan
  • Dyadic microanalysis of mother-infant communication informs clinical practice / Beatrice Beebe and Joseph Jaffe
  • Current problems of Japanese youth : some possible pathways for alleviating these problems from the perspective of dynamic systems theory / Alan Fogel and Masatoshi Kawai
  • A different way to help / George Downing
  • Why do siblings often turn out very differently? / Michael E. Kerr
  • A dynamic systems approach to understanding family and peer relationships : implications for effective interventions with aggressive youth / Isabela Granic
  • Prenatal substance exposure and human development / Daniel S. Messinger and Barry M. Lester
  • pt. V. Conclusions and outlook. A dynamic systems approach to the life sciences / Alan Fogel, Stanley Greenspan, Barbara J. King, Robert Lickliter, Pedro Reygadas, Stuart G. Shanker, and Christina Toren.