Person-in-environment transitions: Developmental analysis

The holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective, an extension of the work of Heinz Werner and his associates, is characterized including bas ic assumptions of the approach and explication with respect to such problem s as child development (including transition to nursery school; child-cente red urban planning; microgenesis and ontogenesis); adult development (inclu ding becoming a parent and retiring); social relationships (including resid ential living of first year undergraduates; abused women; marital interacti on); health problems (including protection against sexual transmission of H IV, reading disabilities, weight loss, and alcohol and tobacco use); change s in the physical environment; cross-cultural psychology (including cultura l differences in values; values mothers hold for preschoolers; necessities, amenities, and luxuries; sojourner experience and action; cross-cultural d ifferences in compliance with automobile safety belt legislation); psychopa thology including neuropathology; organizational psychology; conditions fac ilitating developmental advance; and some significant open research problem s.