Developing Person Through Childhood & Adolescence with Updates on DSM-5
, by Kathleen Stassen Berger
- ISBN: 9781464172045 | 1464172048
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 3/3/2014
Edition after edition, Kathleen Berger’s acclaimed bestseller, The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence, re-establishes itself as the ideal chronologically organized textbook on child development. Exceptionally current, with a broad cultural perspective, the new edition is unmatched. It connects an evolving field shaped by fascinating new research and an evolving classroom shaped by powerful new media. But under the new findings and new media tools, the text’s deepest connection with students comes from the captivating, compassionate, authorial voice of Kathleen Berger, which makes the core concepts of developmental psychology clear, compelling, and relevant to the full range of students taking the course. DSM 5 Updates
Available for Fall 2014 classes, this update version features new content from Kathleen Berger in response to the release of the DSM-5. This new content is integrated into the text without changing pagination or the structure of the chapters. A special DSM 5 Supplement by Berger is available for Fall 2013 and Spring and Summer 2014 courses. View the Page-Referenced Guide to the DSM-5 updates for The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence.
Available for Fall 2014 classes, this update version features new content from Kathleen Berger in response to the release of the DSM-5. This new content is integrated into the text without changing pagination or the structure of the chapters. A special DSM 5 Supplement by Berger is available for Fall 2013 and Spring and Summer 2014 courses. View the Page-Referenced Guide to the DSM-5 updates for The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence.
Kathleen Stassen Berger completed her undergraduate education at Stanford University and Radcliffe College, earned her M.A.T. from Harvard University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. Her broad range of experience as an educator includes directing a preschool, teaching philosophy and humanities at the United Nations International School, teaching child and adolescent development to graduate students at Fordham University, teaching inmates earning paralegal degrees at Sing Sing Prison, and teaching undergraduates at both Montclair State University and Quinnipiac University. She has also been involved in education as the president of Community School Board in District Two in Manhattan. For over three decades, Berger has taught human development at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. The students Kathleen Berger teaches every year come from diverse ethnic, economic, and educational backgrounds representing a wide range of interests and consistently honor her with the highest teaching evaluations. Berger’s developmental texts are currently being used at nearly 700 colleges and universities in a dozen countries and in five languages. Kathleen’s research interests include adolescent identity, sibling relationships, and bullying. As the mother of four daughters, as well as a new grandmother, she brings to her teaching and writing ample firsthand experience with human development.
Chapter 1. Introduction Understanding How and Why A Case to Study: Plasticity and David Including All Kinds of People Observing Changes over Time A View from Science: Mirror Neurons Using the Scientific Method Cautions and Challenges from Science
Two Modes of Thinking
Technology and Cognition
Teaching and Learning
A Case to Study: James, the High-Achieving Dropout
Thinking Critically: Increasing Adolescent Engagement in School
Epilogue. Emerging Adulthood Biosocial Development Cognitive Development A View from Science: Stereotype Threat A Case to Study: The Academic and the Personal Psychosocial Development
- Discussion of the all-important Nature-Nurture controversy has been brought forward to Ch. 1.
- Discussion of critical and sensitive periods in development has been brought forward from Chapters 4 and 5.
- The scientific method is clearly illustrated through description of the research on SIDS, an issue most students are familiar with.
- Thorough discussion of the "grand" developmental theories: psychoanalytic theory, behaviorism, and cognitive theory.
- New coverage of the universal perspective in development theory—specifically, humanism and evolutionary theory.
- A new Thinking Critically feature looks at toilet training from different theoretical perspectives and asks students to consider the values that are embedded in each approach.
- A new A View from Science feature looks at the controversial evolutionary theory about human mating behavior and discusses similar controversies that arise with other applications of evolutionary theory.
- Comprehensive coverage of epigenetic theory, including recent research on methylation and its influence on gene expression.
- Includes updated research on stem cells.
- New Thinking Critically feature explores the issue of sex determination, including policies and practices in different cultures.
- Presents recent research on issues related to low-birthweight newborns.
- Expanded discussion of the role of fathers during pregnancy and in infant development.
- In-depth coverage of reflexes—including those that are not necessary for survival but that signify the state of brain and body functions—now appears in discussion of the newborn.
- Includes a new Thinking Critically feature on the topical issue of co-sleeping, including discussion of co-sleeping practices in various cultures.
- Presents recent research findings on neurological development in infants, including discussion of plasticity and how experience helps shape the brain.
- Discusses the influence of stress on brain development.
- Includes comprehensive discussion of Piaget’s theory of sensorimotor intelligence, including a thoroughly updated and expanded discussion of perspectives from modern research.
- In-depth discussion of information processing theory as it applies to infant cognition.
- Presents new research findings on memory in infants; discusses both the fragility of memory and the efficacy of reminder sessions and strategies.
- Comprehensive coverage of language learning, including infants’ language preferences and a reorganized and expanded section on cultural differences and similarities in language acquisition.
- New A View from Science feature presents recent research on temperament in infants, emphasizing both continuity of temperament and the effect of family and culture.
- Discusses key aspects of emotional development in infants and in toddlers, including the extensive influence of brain maturation on the development of emotions.
- Section on infant day care has been substantially expanded and now includes comparison of day-care policies in 10 nations.
- The section on brain development incorporates exciting recent research on neurological development in children.
- The Research Design feature, in a section on environmental hazards, presents compelling new research on asthma risk.
- The section Injuries and Abuse incorporates a short new section on age-related dangers; it also includes discussion of accident autopsy and statistical analysis in determinating the primary causes of injuries.
- A section on Child Maltreatment discusses cultural bias in the perception of what is or is not potentially injurious.
- New A View from Science feature explores the long-term effects of child maltreatment.
- New A View from Science feature discusses early cognitive competency in the context of whether or not a child’s eyewitness account of a crime is reliable.
- New Research Design feature demonstrates the power of scaffolding for 2- to 6-year-olds in different cultures.
- New Thinking Critically feature explores the costs and benefits of early childhood education.
- Presents new research that identifies five early intervention strategies that are effective in enhancing reading ability years later in elementary school.
- Discusses the role of play in children’s development and cultural differences and similarities in children’s play.
- Reorganized and expanded section on children’s moral development.
- Incorporates new research on cultural differences in disciplinary practices, including new A View from Science feature on cultural determinants of effective discipline.
- The section on health problems in middle childhood substantially rewritten to include recent research findings.
- New A Case to Study feature looks at the impact of SES on childhood asthma.
- The section on brain development includes new research on the massive interconnections that are apparent in children’s brains by middle childhood.
- New section on identifying and educating "gifted and talented" students includes a Thinking Critically feature that explores cultural and SES influences on that designation.
- New research on how culture affects both the content and the methods of learning.
- Section on information processing expanded to include recent research on control processes and the effectiveness of memory strategies; includes research on development of numeracy and the efficacy of explicit instruction for children with special needs.
- New A Case to Study feature explores a child’s resilience in the face of overwhelming odds.
- New A View from Science presents recent research on the effects of divorce on children.
- Includes an expanded section on children’s development of moral values and a new section on the morality of child labor.
- Includes new research on the role of stress in the onset of puberty.
- Expanded section on nutritional issues in adolescence, including a focus on eating disorders.
- New section discusses neurological development in adolescence.
Two Modes of Thinking
Technology and Cognition
Teaching and Learning
A Case to Study: James, the High-Achieving Dropout
Thinking Critically: Increasing Adolescent Engagement in School
- Reorganized for greater emphasis on ongoing development of self-concept and attainment of logical thinking in adolescence.
- Includes an expanded section on intuitive, emotional thought.
- New Thinking Critically feature explores ways to increase student engagement in school.
- Expanded section on technology and cognition incorporates recent research on adolescents’ access to and use of technology, including social networking, and the impact such use has on social development and academic achievement.
- New A View from Science feature explores the surprising efficacy of a targeted intervention program for at-risk families.
- Discussion of relationships in adolescence reorganized into two major sections—one on relationships with adults and one on peer relationships.
- New major section on substance use/abuse and its effect on psychosocial development in adolescence.
Epilogue. Emerging Adulthood Biosocial Development Cognitive Development A View from Science: Stereotype Threat A Case to Study: The Academic and the Personal Psychosocial Development
- Presents updated neurological research, including findings on the connection between social understanding and maturation of the prefrontal cortex; also discusses the link between brain maturation and the attainment of postformal thinking.
- New A View from Science feature presents recent research on the impact of stereotype threat.
- Presents new research on how emerging adults use social networking sites and the effect on their face-to-face relationships.
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