Author: Maria Nascimento Cunha

Abstract: Approaching human development is exploring a vast terrain, whose central nature is that of discovery, change, advances, new acquisitions and growth.

Psychology brings us to human self-contemplation with a scientific character, a science that seeks to understand the processes that justify and drive human behavior, through the observation and study of behavior, and psychological phenomena, in all their complexity and multifactorial, namely, stimuli, genetic predisposition, physiological system, cognitive system, social and cultural environment, previous life experiences and personal characteristics.

Keywords: human development; bipolar disorder; adults