Talk:Developmental systems theory

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Human developmental systems theory

The abstract of the book Developmental Systems Theory: An Integrative Approach by Richard Martin Lerner and Donald Herbert Ford, Sage Publications 1992 ISBN 0803946619 mentions:

For decades there hasn't been an integrative theory of development, only theories about various developmental domains such as language acquisition, personality, and peer relations. Two leading developmentalists, Donald Ford and Richard Lerner, present the first integrative theory on human development. Through a synthesis of developmental contextualism and the Living Systems Framework, the authors develop a theory that examines how a person carries out transactions with their environment and through that transaction how their biological, psychological, behavioral, and environmental elements change or remain constant. They also offer important implications of Developmental Systems Theory (DST) for research, implications for use in educational and clinical settings, and the usefulness of DST in the formulation of social policy. By integrating the results from many research investigations into a larger framework, Developmental Systems Theory offers researchers, professionals, and students a better understanding of how multiple elements interact and shape a person's life... Source: [1]

Ford and lerner developed the first integrative theory on human development, and called it ... developmental systems theory.

I think that the original auteur of the page user:Rj.robinson, who created this artilce on 9 December 2006 had only the biological developmental systems theory in mind. This is way I added the biology in the opening sentence. Some kind of action still have to be taken to integrate the human developmental systems theory in this article - Mdd 23:49, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]