Developmental Psychology and Adult Development
Theories of normal development provide parameters to help make sense of personal lives, showing what we might generally expect at different stages of life and anticipating potential crises.
—Sonia G. Austrian (2008a, p. 4)
The vast field of developmental psychology has much to offer the executive coach. Developmentalists help us understand what we are doing and why we do it by examining the ways we grew and were forged. Their premise is that we share distinctive and discernable patterns of growth and development, that these patterns shaped us, and that a clearer understanding of the developmental process can be instructive in understanding present behavior. Models of development provide a coach ...
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