Experiencing Childhood and Adolescence
- ISBN-10
- 1319187749
- ISBN-13
- 9781319187743
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 376
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-02-22
- Publisher
- Worth
- Author
- Janet Belsky
Description
This brand new textbook on child and adolescent development reflects a scientist’s understanding of key research, a psychologist’s understanding of people, and a teacher’s understanding of students. It features significant new findings, a broad-based global perspective, and enhanced media offerings. With all of this, the book itself is at just the right length and level of coverage to fit comfortably in a single-term, undergraduate-level Developmental Psychology course. With its clear presentation and integration of detailed real-world examples, this acclaimed core textbook accessibly illustrates the relevance of social sciences research without sacrificing key content. This book can be purchased with the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which offers innovative media content, curated and organised for easy assignability. LaunchPad's intuitive interface presents quizzing, flashcards, animations and much more to make learning actively engaging.
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