1. Adult Development: Concepts, History, Paradigms
2. Research methods in adult development
3. Cognitive development
4. Emotional development
5. Motivational development
6. Psychosocial life stages, transitions and crises
7. Personality and ego development
8. Moral development
9. Wisdom
10. Spirituality and religiosity
11. Mental disorder, age and adult life events
12. Social developments in adulthood
13. Career development and retirement
14. Dying and bereavement.
Oliver Robinson is Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer for Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Counselling at the University of Greenwich, UK. His research focuses on how life transitions, crises and relationships are involved in shaping personality, values and identity, and his work has attracted media interest from The Times, the BBC, the New Scientist and The Guardian.