Adult Learning and Development Term Paper

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Adult Life Change: Sarah Brown

At present, the Sarah Brown of the case study is a woman facing a midlife crisis. Suddenly bereft of her husband and her customary occupation, she finds herself immediately responsible for the support of an adult daughter whom she felt she had long settled in the workforce. Sarah is not so old that she is merely interested in taking stock of her past life, merely longing to share her personal and professional experiences with her children. Sarah wishes to develop a new sense of self. She should be able to enjoy the security and independence of autonomous adulthood without the need to care for children or a husband.


As noted towards the end of the case study, Sarah still desires male companionship, and thus wishes to build a future as well as a past, even though she is no longer in the first stage of life construction. For the past years of her life, Sarah has been merely attending to the needs of others within the family niche. (Hudson 109) Now she must spread her wings and make use of the life skills, first cocooning, the first activity of a life transition, or turning inward to take stock of her character strengths and needs, and find her way over the next stage of her life.….....

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