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The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence

Thirteenth Edition  ©2024 Kathleen Stassen Berger Formats: Achieve, Read & Practice, E-book, Print

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    Kathleen Stassen Berger

    Kathleen Stassen Berger received her undergraduate education at Stanford University and Radcliffe College, earned an M.A.T. from Harvard University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. Her broad experience as an educator includes directing a preschool, serving as chair of philosophy at the United Nations International School, teaching child and adolescent development to graduate students at Fordham University and undergraduates at Montclair State University in New Jersey and at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, as well as teaching social psychology to inmates at Sing Sing Prison. Throughout most of her professional career, Berger has worked at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, first as an adjunct and for the past two decades as a full professor. She has taught introduction to psychology, child and adolescent development, adulthood and aging, social psychology, abnormal psychology, and human motivation. Her students—who come from many ethnic, economic, and educational backgrounds and who have a wide range of ages and interests—consistently honor her with the highest teaching evaluations. Berger is also the author of A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span, The Developing Person Through the Life Span, and Invitation to the Life Span. Her developmental texts are currently being used at more than 700 colleges and universities worldwide and are available in Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, as well as English. Her research interests include adolescent identity, immigration, and bullying, and she has published many articles on developmental topics in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Psychology and in publications of the American Association for Higher Education and the National Education Association for Higher Education. She continues teaching and learning as her four daughters and three grandsons continue to develop, as she interacts with students every semester.

Table of Contents

PART I The Beginnings
Chapter 1 The Science of Human Development
Chapter 2 Theories of Development
Chapter 3 The New Genetics
Chapter 4 Prenatal Development and Birth


PART II The First Two Years
Chapter 5 The First Two Years: Biosocial Development
Chapter 6 The First Two Years: Cognitive Development
Chapter 7 The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development


PART III Early Childhood
Chapter 8 Early Childhood: Biosocial Development
Chapter 9 Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
Chapter 10 Early Childhood: Psychosocial Development


PART IV Middle Childhood
Chapter 11 Middle Childhood: Biosocial Development
Chapter 12 Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development
Chapter 13 Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development


PART V Adolescence
Chapter 14 Adolescence: Biosocial Development
Chapter 15 Adolescence: Cognitive Development
Chapter 16 Adolescence: Psychosocial Development
Epilogue: Emerging Adulthood

Product Updates

New topics and research including:

  • Screen time
  • The lasting effects of Covid-19 on children and adolescents
  • Gender identity and sexual orientation
  • The psychosocial effects of the threat of gun violence and of active shooter drills
  • Family structures

 

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