Full Description
The first developmental textbook written specifically for helping professionals and graduate-level students, The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals, Third Edition, provides an in-depth look at the science of human development and how it applies to the fields of counseling, social work and psychology. Using counseling applications, case studies, special topics boxes, and journal questions, the text introduces developmental theories and research within the context of clinical practice. Written with a primary focus on linking theory and research to counseling applications, the new third edition features expanded coverage of psycholopathology in developmental context as well as added material on the latest development-related neuroscientific findings. The revised edition also provides an open access text-specific companion website that offers a full range of multimedia instructor supplements.
Contents
Chapter 1 Organizing Themes in DevelopmentChapter 2 Heredity, Environment, and the Beginnings of Human LifeChapter 3 Neural and Cognitive Development in the Early YearsChapter 4 Emotional Development in the Early YearsChapter 5 The Emerging Self and Socialization in the Early YearsChapter 6 Realms of Cognition in Middle ChildhoodChapter 7 Self and Moral Development: Middle Childhood Through Early AdolescenceChapter 8 Gender and Peer Relationships: Middle Childhood Through Early AdolescenceChapter 9 Physical, Cognitive, and Identity Development in AdolescenceChapter 10 The Social World of AdolescenceChapter 11 Physical and Cognitive Development in Young AdulthoodChapter 12 Socioemotional and Vocational Development in Young AdulthoodChapter 13 Middle Adulthood: Cognitive, Personality, and Social DevelopmentChapter 14 Living Well: Stress, Coping, and Life Satisfaction in AdulthoodChapter 15 Gains and Losses in Late Adulthood
