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Santrock Life-Span Development: A Topical Approach
Life-Span Development: A Topical Approach
John W. Santrock

Socioemotional Processes and Development
The Self, Identity, and Personality

Taking it to the Net

1. Ted is the activities director at an adult retirement community. While talking to a friend who is a social worker, she suggested that Ted might want to develop a program in which the residents engage in the process of reminiscence and life-review. What benefits might the residents gain from such an activity?
http://www.ncoa.org/publications/innovations/Reminiscence%20article.html

2. Janice, recently been appointed principal of a high school that has a large population of Middle Eastern, Asian, and Hispanic students, wants to conduct an in-service training for the school's teachers to help them understand the challenges the ethnic students face as they strive to achieve their self- and ethnic-identity. What challenges to the ethnic students face in resolving their identify crises and how can the school assist them?
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/CGuanipa/ethnic.htm

3. Eduardo is the vice-president for human resources at a 200-employee manufacturing plant. He wants to use a personality assessment in job selection and to help assist him in planning interventions for employees who have job-related problems, such as poor motivation, personality problems with co-workers, and conflicts with supervisors. Would an assessment based on the five-factor model of personality be a good choice?
http://www.centacs.com/quik-pt3.htm