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Daniel Levison's Life Cycle model proposes a pattern for adulthood characterized by distinct periods of stability (seasons), and periods of transition when that structure is reevaluated and perhaps altered or redirected.
In order to make a successful transition from one stage of life to a successive one, the adult will have to learn new things. The learning activities, out of necessity, will be directly related to the requirements and challenges of this new season of one's life.
Levison was born in 1920. Received Ph.D. in psychology from UC, Berkeley. He began his research into adult development in 1967 while a professor of psychology at the Yale University School of Medicine. Having determined that standard research methods were inadequate for his purposes he developed his own Intensive Biographical Interviewing method. His first book, The Season's of a Man's Life, wsa published in 1978, and discussed the life cycle of adult males. A second book titled The Season's of a Women's Life was published posthumously in 1996, two years after Levison's death in 1994.
Developmental Periods in Male Adulthood
Pre-Adulthood
Early Adulthood
Middle Adulthood
Late Adulthood
Levison's model is based on his research into "mid-life crisis". Through his work in the area of adult development, he has articulated the concept of an individual's life structure. According to Levison, the life structure changes and evolves over different stages of the adult life span. He views the human life cycle as consisting of four different stages (seasons) with overlapping periods called transitions.