The Adult Years: Mastering the Art of Self-Renewal (JOSSEY BASS SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE SERIES) - Hardcover

Hudson, Frederic M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555423655 ISBN 13: 9781555423650

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1991

Synopsis

The most compelling book ever written on personal transition and transformation.
--James M. Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge

Designed for adults who wish to establish a life course, manage changes, and engage in lifelong learning, The Adult Years is an important guide for self-renewal and reorientation. Frederic Hudson's study is a fresh and thoughful approach to adult life. It explores how adults can design meaningful lives that flow, with intelligence and flexibility, through these changing and uncertain times.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Designed for adults who wish to establish a life course, manage changes, and engage in lifelong learning, Hudson's study is an important guide for adult self-renewal and reorientation. The Adult Years explores how adults can design meaningful lives that flow, with intelligence and flexibility, through these changing and uncertain times.

From the Inside Flap

Explores how adults can design meaningful lives that flow with intelligence and flexibility through these changing, uncertain times. Hudson'spractical vision for self-renewal and reorientation is designed for all adults who wish to establish a life course, manage changes, and engage in lifelong learning.He demonstrates that it is possible to design a coherent, mature life, even in a culture that glamorizes youth more than it values maturity.

Reviews

Superseding Gail Sheehy ( Passages , LJ 5/15/76) and other stage theorists of adult life, Hudson writes that college graduates will achieve personal fulfillment and develop into better mentors and leaders if they see life as cycles of stability, as opposed to "transition and reevaluation, followed by more stability." Adults, Hudson claims, perform major tasks like work and caretaking repeatedly but differently over the course of a lifetime. These tasks require skills, and the most notable skill is "self-renewal"--an exploration that may lead to a transformation of values, beliefs, and feelings. Although his analysis of society has major faults (e.g., he virtually ignores self-help groups and religion), Hudson's model for adult development is detailed, interdisciplinary, and useful. An excellent choice for public and academic libraries.
- Steven A. Fondiller, St. John's Univ. Lib., Jamaica,
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555423655
• ISBN 13: 9781555423650
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304