Life Span Human Development for Helping Professionals

Name: Life Span Human Development for Helping Professionals
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ISBN: 9780130144256

ISBN-10: 0130144258

ISBN-13: 9780130144256

Edition: 2003

Authors: Patricia C. Broderick, Pamela Blewitt

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In order to be reflective practitioners, to understand clients and their problems, helping professionals must have a working knowledge of developmental research. They must view clients in context - as part of, and inseparable from, a family, a social network, and a culture. This book teaches future counselors and social workers how to see that larger picture and prepares them to take into account all of the threads of continuity and change in life that cause people to seek help. After early chapters that introduce theoretical models and issues that will reappear throughout the book, the authors address development chronologicallyexploring physical, social, and cognitive development as it…

Book details

List price: $81.33
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 9/5/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English

Patricia Broderick is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.Pamela Blewitt teaches in the Department of Psychology at Villanova University.




Organizing Themes in Development



Heredity, Environment, and the Beginnings of Life



Neural and Cognitive Developments in the Early Years



Emotional Development in the Early Years



The Emerging Self and Socialization in the Early Years



Realms of Cognition in Middle Childhood



Self and Moral Development: Middle Childhood through Early Adolescence



Gender and Peer Relationships: Middle Childhood through Early Adolescence



Physical, Cognitive, and Identity Developments in Adolescence



The Social World in Adolescence



Physical and Cognitive Development in Young Adulthood



Socioemotional and Vocational Development in Young Adulthood



Middle Adulthood: Cognitive, Personality, and Social Developments



Living Well: Stress, Coping, and Life Satisfaction in Adulthood



Gains and Losses in Late Adulthood