{"id":289,"date":"2011-06-12T17:36:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T01:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2011-06-12T17:36:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T01:36:31","slug":"factors-in-human-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Factors in Human Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many things to take into consideration when trying to understand a human life. Several years ago I made a tentative list on some of the many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blatner.com\/adam\/psyntbk\/factors.htm\">issues affecting the development of babies, children, and teenagers<\/a>. Today I posted another paper that offered a preliminary listing of many of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blatner.com\/adam\/psyntbk\/factors2.html\">issues that affect the lives of adults<\/a>, from around the early-mid 20s into old age.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many factors at play, though, that I have little faith in the process of the kind of science that uses fixed variables on statistical samples and tries to come up with meaningful conclusions&#8212;that\u2019s called \u201cnomothetic\u201d research and it constitutes the great majority of psychology and other types of behavioral science. Rather, I appreciate more a qualitative type of science that explores the uniqueness of each case history, what is called \u201cidiographic\u201d research. <\/p>\n<p>This approach is more valid, in my mind, but it is less convenient for those self-styled educators or therapists or others who treat individuals as if they fit the general patterns of a category. It can seem easier to have a type of (weak) science behind you so you can behave as a craftsman rather than an artist, so you can rely on a given technique rather than to adjust your work to the uniqueness of the individual&#8212;but it\u2019s not what I\u2019d call the art of the true professional&#8212;whether teacher, therapist, manager, parent, or anyone else whose role is to bring individuals forth into the world, and in ways that makes use of their charges\u2019 individual strengths. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many things to take into consideration when trying to understand a human life. Several years ago I made a tentative list on some of the many issues affecting the development of babies, children, and teenagers. Today I posted another paper that offered a preliminary listing of many of the issues that affect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychotherapy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}