Tracing Life's Footprints

by Jerry D. Lehman

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872122182
• ISBN13: 9780872122185
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Libra Pub
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.

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TRACING LIFE'S FOOTPRINTS: A GUIDE TO WRITING YOUR LIFE STORY, by Jerry D. LehmanIn this insightful and provocative book, the author encourages readers to examine their lives with a view toward understanding the factors that influence personality development. In the process, the works of theorists and researchers such as Erikson, Havighurst, Ainsworth, Gould, Levinson, and Neugarten are discussed in order to bring into focus the important life experiences and transitions.Each chapter provides salient questions which allow for the assessment of significant events of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, thus facilitating the writing of life stories.As readers reflect on their childhood, they are asked to recall experiences involving parents, siblings, family, and school. In the chapter on adolescence, they are asked to recall physical, social, and sexual development and their struggles with identity and autonomy.In the young adult stage, reflection on the joys and hardships is stressed along with an analysis of the decisions that were made regarding education, vocational choice, marriage, and family life.The chapters on middle and late adulthood emphasize the changes in physical, social, and vocational development.In addition to helping readers understand the developmental process, Professor Lehman encourages them to be introspective, to view life as a journey, to appreciate their uniqueness, and to leave their stories as legacies for future generations.The reading and application of the technique described in this book will be not only an important part of life's journey leading to greater self-knowledge and understanding of others, but a joyful process in itself.