By combining the best of topical and chronological approaches, this text presents life-span development as a motion picture rather than as a series of individual snapshots.
The text emphasizes theories and their use in helping us understand development, focuses on the interplay of nature and nurture in development, and also provides an expansive examination of both biological and sociocultural influences on ...
The main purpose of this book is to provide the reader with information that can be translated into professional “best practice” applications.
Elaine Polan and Daphne Taylor guide you through the life cycle—from conception to old age—with an emphasis on health promotion, maintenance, and restoration in clinical practice.
This book is the only text on human growth and development that emphasizes the key implications and applications for counselors, providing useful information and the insights of real experts in each subject area.
This edition covers more than 100 assessment instruments used to evaluate substance abuse and other mental health disorders, intelligence, academic aptitude and achievement, career and life planning, personal interests and values, ...
This five-volume encyclopedia promises to be an authoritative, discipline-defining work for students and researchers seeking to become familiar with various approaches, theories, and empirical findings about human development broadly ...
The main purpose of this book is to provide the reader with information that can be translated into professional best practice applications.
Santrock et al's Lifespan Development, the leading lifespan development text in Canada, aims to provide an engaging, clear, comprehensive and Canadian introduction to the concepts, issues, and theories surrounding lifespan development.
This organization also allows the book to be relatively briefer than other texts, a benefit given the enormous amount of information covered in the course.