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Some strategies could be:
1. If available, community organizations that implement programs for young adults may offer helpful information and support.
2. Cognitive behavioral therapy.
3. Interpersonal therapy.
4. Family therapy.

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The feelings of well being are linked to opportunities for one to express themselves.

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Studies show that interacting in social relationships have a positive affect on well being and relatedness.

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There is cross-cultural evidence that satisfaction of these needs supports feelings of well being in general.

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The ways that they can be satisfied can be different across the lifespan and culture.

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Autonomy is feeling that one's behaviors are self-endorsed, competence is expressing one's talents and skills, and relatedness is opportunities to feel cared for and valued by others.

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Self-determination theory is the 3 basic psychological needs including autonomy, competence, and relatedness motivate our adaption efforts at any age.

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It is the process where a person controls their own life.

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The four types of negativity that create the most damage are known as "four horseman of the apocalypse." They consist of criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and stonewalling.

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To keep love alive you need the positive factors to outweigh the negative factors.

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Interpersonal models focus on attachment theory and temperament to explain marital success or failure.

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Theories of marital harmony include:
1. Disillusionment model-when romantic notions are ignored and the marriage fails.
2. Maintenance hypothesis-romantic couples work to maintain their illusions and therefore their marriage.
3. The social exchange behavioral theories-when there are problems in the marriage and you do not know the strategy to cope with them so it fails.

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It often creates financial hardship for the wife and emotional/behavioral difficulties for the child.

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A high percentages of marriages in the U.S. end up in a divorce.

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Other stages include becoming a parent and reorganizing your life based on that.

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Love is important in our culture and Sternberg describe 3 elements: passion, intimacy, and commitment.

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It begins with mate selection, which is based off of homogony and compatibility.

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Emotional and intellectual stages you pass through from childhood to retirement as a member of a family

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The keeper of meaning stage is when adults expand generative concerns and establishes a meaningfulness of contributions they have made.

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In mid-20's we reach career consolidation, working that gives us satisfaction along with an intimate relationship.

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By old age you establish ego integrity, a process of life review that helps elderly adults to realize their life had meaning.

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Life-task or life-course changes are age-graded changes in the task and responsibilities  that confront us or seem important as we age.

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If this stage is handled well then the person feels a sense of mastery, known as ego quality.

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It begins in childhood and become particularly important during adolescence.

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It refers to the beliefs, ideas, and values that shape and guide a person's behavior.

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It's constantly changing due to new experiences and information we acquire in daily interactions with others.

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It is one of the main elements in Erikson's psychosocial stage theory of development.

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The conscious sense of self that we develop through social interaction.

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From middle adulthood and on they need cultural supports to ensure optimal development.

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Biological supports weaken by middle adulthood, as selection pressures decline.

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He says that during childhood the optimal development is supported by the process of natural selection, in the sense that when such people reach adulthood they will reproduce.

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Baltes says that biology and culture are like a web of interacting organismic and environmental influences on development.

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There are 3 adaptive processes:
1. Growth- we add new characteristics, understandings, skills, etc.
2. Maintenance- functioning at the same level even when facing a challenge or dealing with the loss of someone.
3. Regulation of loss- reorganizing the way we behave.

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It focuses on hereditary and environmental influences of the continuously changing adult.

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Adaptation happens from birth until death

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In order to understand the process of change multidimensional models are needed because adult development is complex.

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LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT THEORY