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Child and Adolescent Development

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ISBN-10: 0395964261

ISBN-13: 9780395964262

Edition: 5th 2000

Authors: Kelvin Seifert, Robert Hoffnung

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Incorporating a solid research base with real-life applications,Child and Adolescent Developmentillustrates the cognitive, psychosocial, and physical development of children in the context of today's society. The Fifth Edition includes increased coverage of the role of adults in the lives of children with expanded discussions of the applied and practical implications of developmental research for parenting, teaching, nursing, etc.
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Book details

List price: $302.95
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: CENGAGE Learning
Publication date: 9/17/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 592
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.190
Language: English

Kelvin Seifert has over thirty years of experience teaching and publishing in educational psychology and developmental psychology, including several years as an early childhood education teacher and as an early childhood curriculum consultant for the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Currently he teaches courses in early years education, learning theory, and qualitative research methods. In addition to presenting at numerous scholarly conferences in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, Seifert is the author of Child and Adolescent Development 5/e (Houghton Mifflin) and Lifespan Development 2/e (Houghton Mifflin), as well as the author of more…    

Studying Development
Introduction
Studying Human Development
The Nature of Human Development
Why Study Development?
Past Understandings of Human Development Basic
Issues in Developmental Study Methods of Studying
Children and Adolescents
Ethical Constraints on Studying Development
Strengths and Limitations of Developmental Knowledge
Theories of Development
The Nature of Developmental
Theories Psychodynamic Developmental
Theories Erickson's
Psychosocial Theory Behavioral
Learning and Social Cognitive
Learning Developmental Theories Cognitive Developmental
Theories Contextual Developmental
Theories Development
Theories Compared and Their Implications for the Student II. Beginnings
Genetics Mechanisms of Genetic
Transmission Individual
Genetic Expression
Genetic Abnormalities
Genetic Counseling and Prenatal Diagnosis Relative
Influence of Heredity and Environment
Genetics and Developmental Psychology
Prenatal Development and Birth Stages of Prenatal Development
Prenatal Influences on the Child Birth From
Biological to Psychological Development III
The First Two Years
Physical Development in the First
Two Years Appearance of the Young
Infant Development of the Nervous System
Sensory Development Motor Development
Nutrition During the First Two Years
Impairments to Infant Growth Infancy
The Real End of Birth
Cognitive Development in the First Two Years
Ways of Studying Perception and Cognition in Infants
Infant Perception and Cognition
Cognitive Change During Infancy
Piaget's Stage
Theory Behavioral Learning in Infancy
Classical Conditioning Operant Conditioning
Language Acquisition
The End of Infancy
Psychosocial Development During the First Two Years
Early Social Relationships Emotions and Temperament in Infancy
Attachment Formation Toddlerhood and the Emergence of Autonomy
The Competent Toddler IV
Early Childhood
Physical Development in Early Childhood
Influences on Normal Physical Development
The Connection Between Health and Poverty
Brain Development Other Bodily
Changes Motor Skill Development
Effects of Children's Physical Growth
The Growing Child
Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
Thinking in Preschoolers Language Acquisition in Early Childhood
Language Variations Relationships Between
Language and Thought Early Childhood Education
Psychosocial Development in Early Childhood
Relationships with Family
Relationships in an Expanding Social
World Play in Early Childhood
Gender Development Child Maltreatment
The End of Early Childhood V
Middle Childhood
Physical Development in Middle Childhood
Trends and Variations in Height and Weight Height
Variations Due to Puberty
Motor Development and Athletics in Middle Childhood
Health and Illness in Middle Childhood
Effects of Growth on Thinking and Feeling
Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood Piaget's
Theory Concrete Operational Skills
Information-Processing
Skills Language Development in Middle Childhood
Defining and Measuring
Intelligence School Influences
Cognition and Social Development
Psychosocial Development in Middle Childhood
Psychosocial Challenges of Middle Childhood
The Sense of Self
The Age of Industry and Achievement
Family Relationships Divorce and Its
Effects on Children Peer
Relationships Death, Loss, and Grieving During the School Years
Beyond Childhood VI. Adolescence
Physical Development in Adolescence
The Concept of Adolescence Growth in Height and Weight
The Secular Trend Puberty
The Development of Primary Sex Characteristics Psychological
Effects of Physical Growth in Adolescence
Health in Adolescence
Finally Young Adults?
Cognitive Development in Adolescence General
Features of Adolescent Thought Beyond Concrete Operational
Thinking Moral Development
Beliefs About Justice and Care
The Development of Social Cognition Information-Processing
Features of Adolescent
Thought Implications of the Information-Processing Viewpoint
The Influence of School
Psychosocial Development in Adolescence
Theories of Identity
Development Family Relationships During Adolescence
Social Relationships During Adolescence
Sexuality During Adolescence
Special Problems of Adolescence
Juvenile Delinquency
The Emerging Adult