Psychology

As a best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Berk Infants, Children, and Adolescents is relied upon in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style and its commitment to examining the latest theory and research. Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social domains; emphasizes the complex interchange between biology and environment; and provides exceptional attention to culture.

The most recent scholarship in the field is presented in a manageable and relevant way. Students are drawn in by Berks signature storytelling style and learn beside the texts “characters” who experience real issues in development, including physical, cognitive, and peer challenges, as well as parenting and educational concerns. Students will recognize many topics of profound significance in todays world, such as poverty, welfare reform, health care, child-care quality, physical punishment, the obesity epidemic, and bilingual education, and learn what researchers have found about their impact on children.

In the Fifth Edition, Infants, Children, and Adolescents has an even stronger emphasis on the interplay between biology and environment. Several reviewers of the fifth edition judge the coverage of brain and motor development to be the best in any child development text on the market today. Many aspects of the childs environment are considered, including home, extended family, school, neighborhood, community, social policy, and cultural influences. With unparalleled cross-cultural references, Infants, Children, and Adolescents, Fifth Edition is an indispensable resource for anyone caring for children in an increasingly global community.

Throughout the Fifth Edition, Berk creates even stronger connections between developmental domains, and takes more opportunities to ask students to “Connect” topics to those in previous chapters. Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal or professional areas of interest. Her voice comes through when speaking directly to students about issues they will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, social workers, health care providers, and others who work to secure the welfare of children.

This book is also available in an abridged paperbound version, Infants and Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood, comprised of Chapters 1-13.

Hallmark Features

• Stories and vignettes of real children — a Berk signature feature — illustrate developmental principles. This book “teaches while it tells a story.”

• “Milestones” tables summarize major physical, cognitive, language, emotional, and social achievements of each age span. Besides offering an overview of change, each entry is page-referenced to provide the student with a convenient tool for review. The Fifth Edition Milestones tables contain new photography depicting real children and their achievements.

• “Ask Yourself” questions have been thoroughly revised and expanded into a unique pedagogical feature that promotes four approaches to engaging actively with the subject matter. The questions are labeled “Review, Apply, Connect, and Reflect.”

• Chapter Openers, containing real child art, prepare students for what they will learn in each chapter. The end-of-chapter material carefully and succinctly reviews this learning and provides page numbers for important terms and concepts.

• Observation Program: This real-life videotape (now two hours) contains a wealth of observation segments that illustrate the many theories, concepts, and milestones of child development. An Observation Guide helps students use the video in conjunction with the text to deepen their understanding of the material and apply what they have learned in everyday life.

• A second video, A Window on Infants, Children, and Adolescents is a narrated, running footage videotape. This tape complements the Observation Video and an accompanying Video Guide is available.

New and Revised Features

• “Applying What We Know” boxes build upon the Caregiving and Educational Concerns tables from the previous edition. In this new feature, the author takes time to summarize research-based applications on many issues, speaking directly to students as parents or future parents and to those pursuing different careers or areas of study, such as psychology, social work, health care, teaching, and guidance counseling.

• “Social Issues: Education” and “Social Issues: Health” boxes underscore the influence of social policy on all aspects of development. In the fifth edition, approximately 70% of the Social Issues boxes are new or updated. Please see New Topics.

• “Cultural Influences” boxes have been expanded and updated to deepen the attention to culture threaded throughout the text, emphasizing multicultural and cross-cultural variations. Please see New Topics.

• “Biology and Environment” boxes highlight the growing attention in the child development field to the complex, bidirectional relationship between biological and environmental influences. Please see New Topics.

• New Mini Chapter on Emerging Adulthood introduces this important new field of study. Not presently covered in any other Child Development text, Emerging Adulthood is a meaningful extension of the adolescent years. This new period of development, extending from the late teens to mid-twenties, is a time when young people have left adolescence but not yet assumed the enduring responsibilities expected from adults. Involved in great exploration and uncertainty, Emerging Adults tend to postpone final decisions regarding educational paths, jobs, and love partners.
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• Chapter One

  • Latest research that dispels misconceptions on how children were perceived in the Middle Ages

  • New illustration of information-processing research--a study of children's problem solving

  • New section on evolutionary developmental psychology

  • Enhanced discussion of cohort effects, including a New Social Issues/Health box on the Great Depression and World War II

  • Updated Biology & Environment box on resilience

• Chapter Two

  • Expanded coverage of gene-environment exchanges and reproductive technologies

  • Revised and updated section on development of adopted children

  • Expanded attention to the impact of poverty on development, including a New Social Issues/Health box on welfare reform, poverty, and child development

  • Discussion of public policy and the overall well-being of North American children

  • Enhanced discussion of environmental influences on gene expression

• Chapter Three

  • New Biology & Environment on the teratogenic effects of Accutane

  • Expanded treatment of prenatal AIDS exposure, with discussion of the rapid spread of AIDS among women in developing countries

  • Update consideration of the importance of prenatal health care

• Chapter Four

  • Enhanced section on infant crying, including cultural variations in infant soothing and new evidence on abnormal crying

  • New research on methods of caring for preterm and low-birth weight infants, including new evidence on “kangaroo care” in the intensive care nursery

  • New findings on infant pain perception

  • Revised section on the transition to parenthood, including new evidence on factors that influence adjustment and on the challenges of adapting to both a first and a second birth

• Chapter Five

  • Updated discussion of brain development, including a New Biology & Environment box on brain plasticity

  • New evidence on infants' and toddlers' eating habits and early risk for obesity

  • Updated findings on the development of reaching and grasping

  • New findings on the development of speech perception, including infants as statistical analyzers of speech patterns

  • Expanded and updated consideration of early face perception

• Chapter Six

  • New Biology & Environment box considering whether infants have built-in numerical knowledge

  • Inclusion of the core knowledge perspective on cognitive development

  • Updated findings on quality of child care in the United States and Canada, with consequences for cognitive and social competence

• Chapter Seven

  • New research on the stability of temperament, and discussion of different methods for measuring temperament

  • Enhanced coverage of attachment, including new evidence of cultural variations in attachment and a New Cultural Influences box on the powerful role of paternal warmth in development

• Chapter Eight

  • Expanded treatment of sleep habits and problems of preschoolers, with advice in a new Applying What We Know feature

  • International comparisons of rates of childhood injury mortality, with discussion of factors contributing to the relatively poor rankings of Canada and the United States

  • Updated Cultural Influences box on child health care in the United States and other Western nations, with special attention to the large number of uninsured children in the United States

  • New research in the development of drawing and printing, including the relationship between these skills

• Chapter Nine

  • New Cultural Influences box on how children in village and tribal cultures learn by observing and participating in adult work

  • Enhanced discussion of autobiographical memory, including the influence of the parent-child relationship on the richness of reminiscing

  • Updated Biology and Environment box on "mindblindness" and autism, including explanations for autistic children's deficient theory of mind

  • New developments in early childhood literacy and mathematical reasoning

  • New findings on the impact of educational television during the preschool years on academic achievement

• Chapter Ten

  • New evidence on emotional self-regulation and consequences for development

  • Revised and updated section on parenting and children's peer relations, including direct and indirect influences

  • New findings on development of aggression, including effects of media violence

  • Updated discussion of gender typing that considers biological, family, and peer influences. Included is a New Biology & Environment box describing a case study of a boy reared as a girl

  • New evidence on the powerful role of sex segregation in children's peer relations

  • Updated section on child maltreatment, including incidence in the United States and Canada. Also in this chapter is a New Social Issues/Health box on Healthy Start, Hawaii's home visiting program for preventing child maltreatment

• Chapter Eleven

  • Updated consideration of brain development in middle childhood.

  • New findings on the causes and consequences of obesity, including a New Social Issues/Health box on how Americans became the heaviest people in the world.

  • Updated evidence on consequences of participation in youth sports programs.

• Chapter Twelve

  • Enhanced consideration of metacognition, including experiences that foster children's awareness of mental activities

  • Updated description of Sternberg's triarchic theory of successful intelligence

  • New Cultural Influences box on the Flynn effect--massive generational gains in IQ--and its implications for the IQ nature-nurture controversy

  • New research on culture, communication styles, and children's mental test performance

  • New evidence revealing that stereotype threat can impair children's test taking

  • Updated section on bilingual development and education, including Canada's French immersion program

  • Revised and updated section on educational philosophies, including constructivist and social-constructivist classrooms and the community of learners approach

• Chapter Thirteen

  • Expanded and updated treatment of emotional self-regulation, including school-age children's flexible use of problem-centered and emotion-centered coping

  • New research on peer acceptance, including the relationship of peer-acceptance categories to bullying and victimization

  • New Cultural Influences box on children's understanding of God

  • New research on the relationship of peer-acceptance categories to bullying

  • New evidence on children's development in never-married single-parent families

  • Updated attention to divorce, with special attention to long-term consequences

  • Updated research on school-age children's fears, including cultural influences and the role of temperament

  • Expanded consideration of resilience, including a new Applying What We Know feature on fostering resilience in middle childhood

• Chapter Fourteen

  • Expanded treatment of ethnic variations in pubertal growth

  • New section on adolescent brain development

  • Expanded and updated section on changes in adolescent sleep

  • New Social Issues/Health box on parents' and teenagers' discussions about sex, with a new Applying What We Know table on communicating with adolescents about sexual issues

  • Enhanced attention to factors related to adolescent parenthood, including intergenerational transmission

  • Updated coverage of substance use and abuse, including international comparisons

• Chapter Fifteen

  • Expanded and updated section on decision making in adolescence

  • Current evidence on the impact of school transitions on adolescent adjustment

  • Updated findings on sex differences in mathematical and spatial skills, including the importance of math curricula that teach children to use effective spatial strategies

  • Updated research on the relationship of classroom learning experiences to adolescents' academic achievement

  • New Social Issues/Education box on extracurricular activities and positive youth development

  • New Social Issues/Education box on high stakes testing

• Chapter Sixteen

  • New section on adolescent religious involvement and moral development

  • Updated Social Issues/Education box on development of civic responsibility, including SES variations in civic knowledge and participation

  • Cross-national evidence on how teenagers spend time

  • Updated and expanded section on dating, including contributions of parent-child relationships and friendships to romantic ties and factors linked to dating violence

  • New section on resiliency in adolescence

• Chapter Seventeen

  • All New Chapter on Emerging Adulthood!

  • A Period of Unprecedented Exploration

  • Cultural Change and Emerging Adulthood

  • Development in Emerging Adulthood

  • Risk and Resilience in Emerging Adulthood

I. Theory and Research in Child Development.

II. Foundations of Development.

III. Infancy and Toddlerhood: The First Two Years.

IV. Early Childhood: Two to Six Years.

V. Middle Childhood: Six to Eleven Years.

VI. Adolescence: The Transition to Adulthood.

Child Development  [CHRONOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION]   (Family Studies & Human Development)
Child Development (Chronological Approach)  (Psychology)

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  Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 6/E
  Berk
  ©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 800 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205511384 | ISBN-13: 9780205511389
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  A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Berk’s Infants, Children, and Adolescents is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural focus, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship while also offering students research-based, practical applications that they can relate to their personal and professional lives.  Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social domains; emphasizes the complex interchange between biology and environment; and provides exceptional attention to culture.

   

  Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher, presents the latest theories and findings in the field to students in a manageable and relevant way. Berk’s signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text’s “characters,” who experience real issues in development, including physical, cognitive, and peer challenges, as well as parenting and educational concerns.  Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest.  Her voice comes through when speaking directly about issues students will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, social workers, and researchers.  As members of a global and diverse human community, students are called to intelligently approach the responsibility of understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of children.     

   

  While carefully considering the complexities of child development, Berk presents classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. Strengthening the connections among developmental domains and of theory and research with applications, this edition's extensive revision brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of child development.

   

  This book is also available in an abridged paperbound version, Infants and Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood, comprised of Chapters 1-13.

"As always, Berk provides a comprehensive discussion of developmental issues. What I appreciate is that the text provides good coverage of areas that are often neglected by other texts (especially applied developmental issues)." — Debbie Laible, Southern Methodist University

"Making theories useful and fun to discuss is a chore, but Berk continues to make these user-friendly and applicable to the real world." — F. Richard Ferraro, University of North Dakota

"The writing in this edition is very clear, interesting and engaging. The level is perfect for my students. The explanations are appropriate, relevant, and clear. The examples are interesting and understandable. There are plenty of illustrations, photographs and review suggestions that guide the students toward success." — Sara Lawrence, California State University, Northridge

"We have used this text in our department for this course for several years now, just because it works. The students appear to like it, and they find it challenging and useful." — Colin T. William, Columbus State Community College

"I feel that one of the best compliments a student can give a text is to say 'I am not going to resell this book at the end of the semester — I am going to keep it as a reference book.' I hear this comment frequently from my students who use the Berk text." "The clarity and level of writing, the timeliness of the material, and the organization of the material make the text student-friendly." — Martin Marino, Atlantic Cape Community College

"The writing level of this text is exemplary! The integration of research findings and "plain language" explanations allows the students to interact seamlessly with the text." ". . . a wonderfully comprehensive and intelligent resource." — Matthew DiCintio, Delaware County Community College

"Probably one the greatest strengths of chapter 14 is the level at which it is written. . . . with the experience of a child developmental specialist, but not so technical that the students would be lost in jargon." "Berk combines the latest relevant research without making the text read like a science book." — Sandra Hellyer, Butler University

"Berk's text provides preservice teachers and others preparing to work with young children and their families a solid grounding upon which to base their work. It deserves a place on students' bookshelves throughout their careers as a basic reference." — Nancy Freeman, University of South Carolina

"I adopted the text because of the quality of writing and coverage of topics I feel are critical in developmental psychology." — Ron Craig, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

"I find the text to be very up-to-date and packed with research. Along with Berk's writing style, I continue to come back to her text." "I find Berk does a good job linking areas of development together which is a major emphasis of this course. I think the vignettes at the beginning of each chapter are helpful here." "I particularly like the links made between theory and education as this is the major application of the theories and provides the 'so what' part of developmental research. I try to get students understand why this research is important and how we apply it the real world. This is also why I like the boxes in each chapter - 'Applying What We Know.'" — Lisa Huffman, Ball State University

"I particularly appreciate Berk's inclusion of multicultural perspectives. It is important to help students, particularly those who are just beginning their professional preparation, to put what we know about young children and their development into a cultural context. This text does that masterfully with words AND with pictures." — Nancy Freeman, University of South Carolina

"I really enjoyed the writing style used by the author. I particularly liked the way that the story from the beginning of the chapter was woven throughout all the sections of each chapter. In addition, using the same characters in subsequent chapters really pulled together the links between developmental domains." — Lynn Caruso, Seneca College, Canada

"Writing Style: Fabulous! Information in these chapters is consistently presented in a clear, concise style. The reader is very much 'involved' in the material. This is achieved through the use of active language. . ." — Deb Gural, Red River College, Canada

"I think if a student feels the material he will know it. The value of the Ask Yourself sections is monumental." "The thing that I am most impressed with is the examples the author uses. I found that often I had new insights in to child development issues even though I have been teaching and working in the field for years. These insights were so well thought out that I think that they would be very helpful students when learning the material." — John Prange, Irvine Valley College

"The author's writing style is very engrossing. She is exceptionally accomplished in her knowledge of developmental psychology. I think her writing will be easy for my students to follow." — Algea Harrison, Oakland University

"At all times, Berk seems to make a real effort to keep the style clear and uncluttered. The use of unnecessary technical terms is avoided yet the key words/phrases that are needed to really describe the topic are there." — David Lockwood, Humber College, Canada

“Writing Style: Fabulous! Information in these chapters is consistently presented in a clear, concise style. The reader is very much 'involved' in the material.”
Deb Gural, Red River College

“I particularly appreciate Berk's inclusion of multicultural perspectives. It is important to help students, particularly those who are just beginning their professional preparation, to put what we know about young children and their development into a cultural context. This text does that masterfully with words AND with pictures. ”
Nancy Freeman, University of South Carolina

“The thing that I am most impressed with is the examples the author uses. I found that often I had new insights in to child development issues even though I have been teaching and working in the field for years. These insights were so well thought out that I think that they would be very helpful students when learning the material. ”
John Prange, Irvine Valley College

“As always, Berk provides a comprehensive discussion of developmental issues. What I appreciate is that the text provides good coverage of areas that are often neglected by other texts (especially applied developmental issues). ”
Deborah Laible, Southern Methodist University

“The author's writing style is very engrossing. She is exceptionally accomplished in her knowledge of developmental psychology. I think her writing will be easy for my students to follow. ”
Algea Harrison, Oakland University

“The writing level of this text is exemplary! The integration of research findings and "plain language" explanations allows the students to interact seamlessly with the text… This is a wonderfully comprehensive and intelligent resource. ”
Matthew DiCintio, Delaware County Community College

“I really enjoyed the writing style used by the author. I particularly liked the way that the story from the beginning of the chapter was woven throughout all the sections of each chapter. In addition, using the same characters in subsequent chapters really pulled together the links between developmental domains. ”
Lynn Caruso, Seneca College "I think if a student feels the material he will know it. The value of the Ask Yourself sections is monumental." John Prange, Irvine Valley College

MyDevelopmentLab with E-Book for Infants, Children, and Adolescents (Access code required), 5/E
Berk
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Companion Website with Online Practice Tests, 5/E
Berk
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205420605 | ISBN-13: 9780205420605
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Companion Website with Online Practice Tests, 5/E
Berk
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Human Development Transparencies 3.0 to accompany Laura Berk's Texts, 3/E
Berk
©2006 | Allyn & Bacon | Transparency; 200 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205442315 | ISBN-13: 9780205442317

MyDevelopmentLab with E-Book for Infants, Children, and Adolescents (Access code required), 5/E
Berk
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Test Bank
Berk, Principe & Tyler
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 640 pp | Out of Stock
ISBN-10: 0205439977 | ISBN-13: 9780205439973
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Test Item File for Blackboard and CourseCompass, 5/E
Berk
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205439780 | ISBN-13: 9780205439782
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Berk
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205444512 | ISBN-13: 9780205444519
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Window on Infants, Children, and Adolescents Video, 5/E
Berk
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Video; 0 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205442331 | ISBN-13: 9780205442331

Windows Video Guide (Download only), 5/E
Berk & Harris
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ISBN-10: 0205461042 | ISBN-13: 9780205461042
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Companion Website with Online Practice Tests, 5/E
Berk
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ISBN-10: 0205420605 | ISBN-13: 9780205420605
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MyDevelopmentLab with E-Book for Infants, Children, and Adolescents (Access code required), 5/E
Berk
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ISBN-10: 0205476031 | ISBN-13: 9780205476039
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Building Bridges: The Allyn & Bacon Student Guide to Service-Learning
Hamner
©2002 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 128 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205319742 | ISBN-13: 9780205319749
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Clicker Questions for Introductory Psychology
Martichuski
©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205688039 | ISBN-13: 9780205688036
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Contemporary Readings in Psychology: A New York Times Reader
Coats
©2000 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 126 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0139775137 | ISBN-13: 9780139775130
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How to Write Psychology Papers, 2/E
Parrott
©1999 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 144 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321044665 | ISBN-13: 9780321044662
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Insights into Human Development Video
Allyn & Bacon
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Video | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205466249 | ISBN-13: 9780205466245

InterWrite PRS RF (Personal Response System)
InterWrite PRS & Allyn & Bacon/Longman
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205436951 | ISBN-13: 9780205436958

Introductory Psychology DVD Set for Psychology
Pearson Canada
©2006 | Allyn & Bacon | DVD | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131754327 | ISBN-13: 9780131754324

Live!Psych
WADE & TAVRIS & Tavris
©2004 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
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Mind Matters CD-ROM
Hilton & Perdue
©2000 | Allyn & Bacon | CD-ROM Only | Instock
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Pearson Teaching Films for Introductory Psychology 2008
Pearson
©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | DVD | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205652808 | ISBN-13: 9780205652808

Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using Psychology to Think Critically about Issues in the News, 2/E
Tavris
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 107 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130279862 | ISBN-13: 9780130279866
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ResearchNavigator.com Guide
Allyn & Bacon
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 48 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205517196 | ISBN-13: 9780205517190

ResearchNavigator.com Guide
Allyn & Bacon & Barr
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 48 pp | Out of Stock
ISBN-10: 020552396X | ISBN-13: 9780205523962

ResearchNavigator.com Guide: Psychology (Valuepack item only)
Kelley & Barr
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 96 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205517080 | ISBN-13: 9780205517084

Speaking Out: Interviews with People Who Struggle
Oltmanns & Emery
©2011 | Allyn & Bacon | DVD | Estimated Availability : 12/01/2010
ISBN-10: 0205773419 | ISBN-13: 9780205773411

Stress Management Workbook: Techniques and Self Assessment Procedures
Gramling & Auerbach
©1998 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 176 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0138539200 | ISBN-13: 9780138539207
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iClicker Classroom Response System
iClicker & Allyn & Bacon/Longman
©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205594506 | ISBN-13: 9780205594504

Allyn & Bacon Child Development Study Site (Open access)
Allyn & Bacon
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205544991 | ISBN-13: 9780205544998
URL:  http://www.abchilddevelopment.com

Normal Development in the First Ten Years of Life: Greatest Hits
Fox
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | DVD | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321441214 | ISBN-13: 9780321441218

Pearson Teaching Films Lifespan Development Video
Pearson
©2010 | Allyn & Bacon | DVD | Estimated Availability : 12/18/2009
ISBN-10: 0205656021 | ISBN-13: 9780205656028

Study Card for Child Development (Chronological)
Allyn & Bacon
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Study Card; 6 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205435084 | ISBN-13: 9780205435081

Transparencies for Child Development
Allyn & Bacon
©2004 | Allyn & Bacon | Transparency; 99 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205407471 | ISBN-13: 9780205407477

Normal Development in the First Ten Years of Life: Greatest Hits
Fox
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | DVD | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321441214 | ISBN-13: 9780321441218

Study Card for Child Development (Chronological)
Allyn & Bacon
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Study Card; 6 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205435084 | ISBN-13: 9780205435081

Study Card for Child Development (Topical)
Allyn & Bacon
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Study Card; 6 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205435076 | ISBN-13: 9780205435074

MyDevelopmentLab with E-Book for Infants, Children, and Adolescents (Access code required), 5/E
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Companion Website with Online Practice Tests, 5/E
Berk
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  Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach, 4/E
  Arnett
  ©2010 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 504 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0138144583 | ISBN-13: 9780138144586
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  For undergraduate courses in Adolescence and Adolescent Development

   

  Focused on a global cultural perspective that incorporates research on adolescence through emerging adulthood.   Grounded in a global cultural perspective (within and outside of the US), this text includes a considerable amount of anthropology, sociology, and international research in addition to the compelling psychological research on adolescent development. This book also takes into account the period of emerging adulthood (ages 18-25), an area sometimes neglected but of particular interest to many students who see themselves reflected in the research.

   

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  Child Development, 8/E
  Berk
  ©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 784 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205615597 | ISBN-13: 9780205615599
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  Read by more than half a million students worldwide, Berk’s Child Development has been the standard for 20 years. Now, this 20th anniversary edition builds on its long and successful history with the most cutting-edge research, pedagogy, and supplements package available! Laura Berk has taught thousands of students with diverse majors, future goals, interests, and needs. Her work is continually at the forefront of changes in the field. The Eighth Edition includes the most up-to-date scholarship while retaining all the hallmark features for which Laura Berk’s texts are known — unique story-telling, practical applications, meticulous research, and much more!

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  Child Development, 5/E
  Feldman
  ©2010 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 552 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205655025 | ISBN-13: 9780205655021
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  For courses in Child Development, taught Chronologically.

  Courses may be in psychology, education, nursing, social work or human development.

   

  Most balanced presentation of the research and applications important to the field and students taking the course.

   

  Introduces students to the theories, research, and applications of child and adolescent development. Child Development 5e features a variety of student-focused tools that make the study of development interesting and engaging with an emphasis on practical, take-home information that students can use now and in the future.

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  Child Development: Principles and Perspectives, 2/E
  Cook & Cook
  ©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 624 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205494064 | ISBN-13: 9780205494064
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  Child Development: Principles and Perspectives, 2E shows students the power of developmental research in practice!

   

  The topically-organized Child Development, Second Edition combines streamlined coverage with an application-driven active learning system.  Cook and Cook focus students on how they can promote positive child development by putting the science to work outside of the classroom.
  
  The approach recognizes that the majority of students enrolled in the child development course will likely interact in the future with children as educators, medical professionals, social workers, counselors, or as parents.  For this reason, the authors punctuate each chapter with numerous applications, including interviews with a real parent (or  child) and a real professional who in some way depends upon child development research.
  
  Child Development is supported by the new and improved MyDevelopmentLab, an exciting learning and assessment tool designed to increase student success in the classroom, and provide instructors with every resource needed to teach and administer their course. The latest version of MyDevelopmentLab features Virtual Child. This interactive simulation offers students the opportunity to act as a parent and raise a virtual child.
  

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  Child Development: Principles and Perspectives (with Study Card)
  Cook & Cook
  ©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper Package; 688 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205460798 | ISBN-13: 9780205460793
  Brief Description

  

  This topically organized book uses a student-friendly writing style, intuitive design, and an active learning system to help students critically explore the many perspectives on child development.

   

  Child Development: Principles and Perspectives encourages students to take an active role in their learning and to think about children's development from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews, cases, and vignettes, students gain a broad understanding of the viewpoints of people who work with, live with, and care for children, bringing this dynamic field to life! From the start of each chapter, students actively engage in reading, questioning, and connecting information to their everyday lives and the lives of others. The text's features uniquely work together as an integrated system to optimize student learning and memory.

   

  Child Development is accompanied by MyDevelopmentLab, an exciting new learning and teaching tool designed to increase student success in the classroom, and provide instructors with every resource needed to teach and administer their course. The text plus MyDevelopmentLab is a complete recipe for student success!

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  Children and Their Development, 5/E
  Kail
  ©2010 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 576 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205654150 | ISBN-13: 9780205654154
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  For Child Development courses in Psychology, Education, Human Development, Child and Family Studies, and Early Childhood Education. Covers prenatal through adolescence.

   

  Research Made Relevant

   

   Written by a well-known and respected researcher in the field of child development, this TOPICALLY organized text uses unique and effective pedagogy as the framework of the entire text. Designed to demonstrate how research translates into practice with accessible writing, a modular format, and application-based features such as: Focus on Research, Cultural Influences, Spotlight on Theories, Improving Children’s Lives, and Child and Development and Family Policy.

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  Developing Child, The, 11/E
  Bee & Boyd
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 608 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205474535 | ISBN-13: 9780205474530
  Brief Description

  

  The Developing Child, Eleventh Edition, is a best-selling topical child development book known for its personal, conversational writing style; balanced coverage of both theory and application; and strong emphasis on culture.

   

  Helen Bee is a prominent author and researcher whose successful books on development, and whose devotion to this field has earned her a national reputation. Denise Boyd of Houston Community College System adds a refreshing voice to this popular, longstanding text, while adding outstanding pedagogy and activities that help students replicate classic research.

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  Developing Child, The, 12/E
  Bee & Boyd
  ©2010 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 576 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205685935 | ISBN-13: 9780205685936
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  For an undergraduate introductory level course in child development (prenatal through adolescence) that is organized topically.

   

  The Developing Child, Twelfth Edition provides students the most support for learning and success.

   

  The Developing Child gives students the tools they require to organize, retain and apply information from the broad field of child psychology, while offering balanced coverage of theory and application, with a strong emphasis on culture. Helen Bee is a prominent author and researcher whose successful books on development, and whose devotion to this field has earned her a national reputation. Denise Boyd of Houston Community College System adds a refreshing voice to this popular, longstanding text, while adding outstanding pedagogy and activities that help students replicate classic research.

   

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  Development Across the Life Span, 5/E
  Feldman
  ©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 792 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136016103 | ISBN-13: 9780136016106
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  Development Across the Lifespan offers a strong balance between research and applications.

   

  Robert Feldman offers students a chronological overview of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development–from conception through death with his text Development Across the Lifespan . The text presents up-to-date coverage of theory and research, with an emphasis on the application of these concepts by students in their personal–and future professional–lives. The text taps into students’ inherent interest in the subject of human development, encouraging them to draw connections between the material and their own experiences.

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  Development Through the Lifespan, 4/E
  Berk
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 816 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205491251 | ISBN-13: 9780205491254
  Brief Description

  

  A best-selling text unparalleled in its approach to teaching human development, Berk’s Development Through the Lifespan is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural focus, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship while also offering students research-based, practical applications that they can relate to their personal and professional lives.

   

  Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher, has revised the text with new pedagogy, a heightened emphasis on the interplay between biology and environment, and an enhanced focus on many social policy issues, while emphasizing the lifespan perspective throughout. The latest theories and findings in the field are made accessible to students in a manageable and relevant way. Berk’s signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text’s “characters” who share their developmental milestones at different stages of life. Students are provided with an especially clear and coherent understanding of the sequence and underlying processes of human development, emphasizing the interrelatedness of all domains–physical, cognitive, emotional, social–throughout the text narrative and in special features.

   

  Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest.  Her voice comes through when speaking directly about issues students will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, social workers, and researchers.  As members of a global and diverse human community, students are called to intelligently approach the responsibility of understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of both young and old.     

   

  While carefully considering the complexities of human development, Berk presents classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. Strengthening the connections among developmental domains and of theory and research with applications, this edition's extensive revision brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of human development.

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  Discovering the Life Span
  Feldman
  ©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 576 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136061672 | ISBN-13: 9780136061670
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  For two and four year institutions with courses in human development/lifespan development.

   

  Modular, manageable, meaningful–help your students discover the life span!

   

  Based on extensive market research, and informed by author Robert Feldman’s own teaching experience, Discovering the Life Span was created to meet key teaching needs. Many instructors would like to cover the entire life span in a single term. They would like their students to see the big picture and understand how the domains of development work together. And, perhaps most importantly, they would like their students to truly connect to the material. This remarkable first edition does all three of these things.Here’s how:

  • Structured around a modular format, each stage of life and each domain are treated equally throughout the text. This balanced format offers instructors teaching flexibility while helping students see the connections between the physical, cognitive, and social/personality domains.
  • With 9 chapters, 3 modules per chapter, and only 493 pages, Discovering the Life Span is more manageable for instructors and students. This format allows instructors to cover all areas of the life span without having to sacrifice content during their one-term course. Students get a better sense of the entire process of development.
  • Interactive online resources like MyDevelopmentLab with MyVirtualChild, strong applications, and innovative pedagogy integrated throughout the text produce a meaningful learning experience for students. These tools best prepare students to apply the content to their personal and future professional lives.

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  Exploring Lifespan Development
  Berk
  ©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 616 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205522688 | ISBN-13: 9780205522682
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  This shorter, essentials version of Berk’s best-selling Development Through the Lifespan, 4/e, covers the same topics and contains the same number of chapters, but presents only the essential information with an exceptionally strong emphasis on applications. Exploring includes all the features Berk’s texts are known for: engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural focus, rich examples, the most up-to date research, and practical applications that help students relate the subject to their personal and profession lives.

   

  Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher, has refashioned her text to provide the core information in the field with an exceptionally strong emphasis on applications.  Visually stunning, pedagogically balanced, and fully integrated, the Exploring edition has all the great features of Development Through the Lifespan, 4e, in an abbreviated form.  The latest theories and findings in the field are made accessible to students in a manageable and relevant way.

   

  Berk’s signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text’s “characters,” who share their influential experiences and developmental milestones. Students are provided with an exceptionally clear and coherent understanding of the sequence and underlying processes of human development, emphasizing the interrelatedness of all domains—physical, cognitive, emotional, social—throughout the text narrative and in special features.

   

  Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest.  Her voice comes through when speaking directly about issues students will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, social workers, and researchers.  As members of a global and diverse human community, students are called to intelligently approach the responsibility of understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of both young and old. 

   

  Berk presents the most important classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, coherent, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. Strengthening the connections among developmental domains and highlighting the application of theories and research to the real world, this text presents the most important scholarship in the changing field of human development.

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  Growing Child, The
  Boyd & Bee
  ©2010 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 656 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205545963 | ISBN-13: 9780205545964
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  For an undergraduate introductory level course in child development (prenatal through adolescence) that is organized chronologically.

   

  Boyd/Bee provides students the most support for learning and success. The Growing Child emphasizes how the three domains of development — physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional — interact with each other and with the environment to affect developmental outcomes. Featuring an innovative student-focused format, it provides the self-assessment tools necessary to keep students engaged in active learning from start to finish, as well as the most support to help students organize, understand, and apply the material.

   

   

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  Infants and Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood, 6/E
  Berk
  ©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 672 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205541615 | ISBN-13: 9780205541614
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  A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Berk’s Infants and Children is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural focus, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship while also offering students research-based, practical applications that they can relate to their personal and professional lives.  Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social domains; emphasizes the complex interchange between biology and environment; and provides exceptional attention to culture.

   

  Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher, presents the latest theories and findings in the field to students in a manageable and relevant way. Berk’s signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text’s “characters,” who experience real issues in development, including physical, cognitive, and peer challenges, as well as parenting and educational concerns.  Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest.  Her voice comes through when speaking directly about issues students will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, social workers, and researchers.  As members of a global and diverse human community, students are called to intelligently approach the responsibility of understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of children.     

   

  While carefully considering the complexities of child development, Berk presents classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. Strengthening the connections among developmental domains and of theory and research with applications, this edition's extensive revision brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of child development.

   

   

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  Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 6/E
  Berk
  ©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 800 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205511384 | ISBN-13: 9780205511389
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  A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Berk’s Infants, Children, and Adolescents is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural focus, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship while also offering students research-based, practical applications that they can relate to their personal and professional lives.  Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social domains; emphasizes the complex interchange between biology and environment; and provides exceptional attention to culture.

   

  Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher, presents the latest theories and findings in the field to students in a manageable and relevant way. Berk’s signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text’s “characters,” who experience real issues in development, including physical, cognitive, and peer challenges, as well as parenting and educational concerns.  Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest.  Her voice comes through when speaking directly about issues students will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, social workers, and researchers.  As members of a global and diverse human community, students are called to intelligently approach the responsibility of understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of children.     

   

  While carefully considering the complexities of child development, Berk presents classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. Strengthening the connections among developmental domains and of theory and research with applications, this edition's extensive revision brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of child development.

   

  This book is also available in an abridged paperbound version, Infants and Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood, comprised of Chapters 1-13.

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  Lifespan Development, 5/E
  Boyd & Bee
  ©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 704 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205540872 | ISBN-13: 9780205540877
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  Lifespan Development offers strong applications, learning objectives, and integrated assessment.

   

  Students who want to know "What does current research say?" and "Why is this important?" will appreciate both the applied nature of this text and the clarity and rigor of the authors' presentation of current research.  An exceptional pedagogical package that ties the textbook to online MyDevelopmentLab study tools complements the student-centered approach of the book and offers students the benefit of frequent self-assessment.

   

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  Lifespan Development, 4/E
  Boyd & Bee
  ©2006 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 736 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205439675 | ISBN-13: 9780205439676
  Brief Description

  

  Lifespan Development presents the optimum balance between theory, research, and practical application in a warm, personal, accessible manner.

  Students and instructors will appreciate the personal style of this text, yet recognize the theoretical clarity and rigor of research used in presenting the most current and relevant discussions for the study of development in the 21st century. Additionally, in order to give your students the extra support they need to succeed in your classroom, this new edition offers perforated chapter practice tests at the end of the textbook.

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  MYDEVELOPMENTLAB
  Pearson
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Website | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205543308 | ISBN-13: 9780205543304
  URL:  http://www.mydevelopmentlab.com
  Brief Description

  

  MyDevelopmentLab with MyVirtualChild is a learning and assessment tool that allows instructors to assess student performance and adapt course content without investing a lot of additional time or resources. 

  Students benefit from this easy-to-use site with or without their instructor’s involvement. Students can test themselves on key content, track their progress, and utilize individually tailored study plan activities, including an e-book, simulations, newsfeeds, and application exercises. It also provides students the opportunity to raise a virtual child from birth to age 18 and monitor the effects of specific parenting decisions over time.

   

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  Story of Human Development, The
  Poole, Warren & Nunez
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 474 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130307521 | ISBN-13: 9780130307521
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  For undergraduate courses in Lifespan Development

   

  The Story of Human Development creates an engaging and original framework by integrating material on the typical individual's physical, cognitive, emotional, and social developments with how they might develop in different environmental contexts.

   

  Faced with the challenge of authoring a text that could be current, scholarly, and comprehensive while also being readable and practical, authors Debra Poole, Amye Warren, and Narina Nuñez created The Story of Human Development 1.e, a far departure from the ordinary human development text. By organizing the text with each age bracket represented by a two-chapter pair, the authors are able to examine all aspects of the development process. With a narrative infused with the rich and diverse stories of people’s lives, compelling arrangement, unique connecting summaries, and a focus on guiding developmental principles, this text puts the science of human development into a framework that better explains and explores how a whole person develops within varying environmental contexts. 

   

   

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  Understanding Human Development, 2/E
  Craig & Dunn
  ©2010 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 600 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205753078 | ISBN-13: 9780205753079
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  For undergraduate courses in Lifespan Development, Human Development

   

  An interdisciplinary approach with an emphasis on culture and family

   

  Using an interdisciplinary approach which emphasizes culture and family, Understanding Human Development challenges students to understand development from a broader perspective. Students draw on their own experiences as they weigh the research and ideas presented in the text.

   

  Want to view an interview with co-author, Wendy Dunn? Click here: www.youtube.com/pearsonpsych

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  World of Children, The
  Cook & Cook
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 688 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205447430 | ISBN-13: 9780205447435
  Brief Description

  

  For the undergraduate child development course taught chronologically.

   

  The World of Children is a new chronological child development textbook by Joan Littlefield Cook and Greg Cook that helps students connect the science and the practice of child development in a way that can positively change lives. This exciting new text features an active learning system that exposes students to real people facing real world child development challenges, and encourages them to think critically about issues from multiple perspectives.

   

  The World of Children demonstrates the practical applications of child development through interviews with a diverse group of real parents (A Personal Perspective) and a variety of professionals (A Professional Perspective) who rely upon child development information in their jobs. Each chapter also spotlights the ways programs, laws, regulations, and other governing aspects of society can affect children (A Social Policy Perspective).

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