Theories | Cross disciplinary perspective | Overarching perspective | Lifelong perspective | Epidemiological perspective | |
Categories | Empirical assessment | Intervention | |||
Descriptive | |||||
Gessel | + | ± | − | + | − |
Psychological construct based | |||||
Piaget | ± | ± | − | − | − |
Kohlberg | + | − | + | − | − |
Freud | ± | − | − | − | − |
Erikson | ± | − | + | − | − |
Context based | |||||
Bandura | + | ± | + | + | + |
Vigotsky | + | + | + | + | + |
Bronfrenner | + | + | + | + | + |
+, Adequately addressed; −, neglected; ±, inadequately addressed.