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Lifespan Development in Context Voices and Perspectives

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ISBN-10: 0395921023

ISBN-13: 9780395921029

Edition: 2000

Authors: David N. Sattler, Douglas A. Bernstein, Geoffrey P. Kramer, Virginia Shabatay

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Lifespan Development in Context corresponds to the organization of most lifespan development and developmental psychology textbooks, beginning with issues involving birth and infancy, continuing with childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and concluding with issues concerning dying and death. Each chapter contains 4–6 personal narratives, and each narrative covers a different concept, issue, or topic within a given age period.
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Book details

List price: $65.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: CENGAGE Learning
Publication date: 10/26/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Birth, Infancy, and Toddlerhood Madeleine's First Months of Life
Developmental Concepts: reflexes, motor development, early object relations, language development, toilet training
Birth Ceremonies of the Quiche Community
Developmental Concepts: cross-cultural views of pregnancy and childbirth, gender preferences
Caring for a Premature Infant
Developmental Concepts: premature birth, primitive reflexes, attachment, parental expectations, parent-child interactions
The Fussy, High-Need Baby
Developmental Concepts: temperament, child's role in shaping parenting style, development of empathy
Perpetual Motion: A Curious Baby
Developmental Concepts: gross motor development, sensorimotor period, object permanence, autonomy
Early Childhood Madeleine's Understanding of Gender and Time
Developmental Concepts: gender identity, preoperational thought, understanding time
Mollie in Preschool
Developmental Concepts: pretend play, preoperational period, peer relationships, symbolic thinking
Fantasy and Storytelling: Children at Play
Developmental Concepts: dramatic play, family and cultural influences
Angela's Ashes: Memoir of a Childhood
Developmental Concepts: poverty; family, community, and cultural factors influencing development
Night Visitors: Imagination or Reality?
Developmental Concepts: imagination, reality testing, problem solving
Coping with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Developmental Concepts: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (formerly called attention-deficit disorder), behavior problems, parenting skills
Middle Childhood A Young Boy Becomes Man of the House
Developmental Concepts: achievement motivation, influence of mother and single-parent home, discipline styles
Developmental Concepts: children's adjustment to a new sibling, sibling conflict, family relationships
A Bilingual Childhood
Developmental Concepts: bilingualism: cognitive and social effects
The Spatial Child
Developmental Concepts: special abilities, learning to read, motivation
Handed My Own Life
Developmental Concepts: industry, achievement, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, sense of self, curiosity
Helping Children Avoid Depression
Developmental Concepts: childhood depression, coping skills, applied research
Adolescence Shaping Up Absurd
Developmental Concepts: physical development, body image, conformity
Dying to Be
Developmental Concepts: physical development, body image, achievement motivation, substance abuse, peer pressure
One Foot Out the Door: Facing the Challenges of Late Adolescence
An interview
Developmental Concepts: independence, dieting, self-image, importance of family and relationships
Michael Huang: From Vietnam to America
An interview
Developmental Concepts: differentiation, individuation, relationships with parents, multicultural identity
Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
Developmental Concepts: coping with poverty, gangs, substance abuse, violence; moral development; courage
Flight of Passage
Developmental Concepts: Sibling relationships, father-son relationships, initiative, individuation, independence
Early Adulthood E-mail Romance
Developmental Concepts: intimate relationships, dating and technology, self-disclosure, love
What Makes a Successful Marriage?
One Couple's Story
Developmental Concepts: marriage, family, and career; love; marital equality; marital satisfaction
Balancing Work and Family
Developmental Concepts: work and family, parenthood, gender roles, family and stress and stressors
The Heart of Parenting
Developmental Concepts: parenting, emotional interaction between parent and child, emotional intelligence, empathy
Life After Divorce
Developmental Concepts: single parenthood, divorce, shared custody, extended family support, cohabitation, multicultural identity, effects of divorce on children
Middle Adulthood The Squeezed Generation
Developmental Concepts: Midlife transition, midlife crisis, social clock, generativity versus stagnation stage
Making Peace in Your Stepfamily
Developmental Concepts: stepparenting; second marriage, blended families
Is Success Worth Dying For?
Developmental Concepts: Stress, type A behavior pattern, career goals
Celebrating Fifty
Developmental Concepts: menopause, midlife crisis, empty nest
Coping with Sexual Dysfunction
Developmental Concepts: sexual dysfunction, impotency
Late Adulthood Life at Sixty
Developmental Concepts: attitudes toward aging, physical and cognitive changes, coping with change, integrity versus despair, wisdom
The Virtues of Aging
Developmental Concepts: work and retirement, relationships with family and friends, exercise, interests, wisdom Widowhood
Developmental Concepts: widowhood, loneliness, grief, bereavement
Caring for a Spouse
Developmental Concepts: dementia, spouse as caregiver
Dying, Death, and Bereavement Tuesdays with Morrie: A Professor Undertakes the Last Great Journey
Developmental Concepts: facing one's own death, integrity
The Right to Choose One's Own Death
Developmental Concepts: euthanasia, assisted suicide
Just Say Something
Developmental Concepts: bereavement, grief, loss of a child
Celebrating Death--and Life
Developmental Concepts: funeral and ritual practices, cross-cultural funeral practices