Developing Person Through the Life Span, Paper Version

With Kathleen Stassen Berger's always contemporary, always compelling textbook, students learn to see how the basic ideas of developmental psychology apply to their own lives, the lives of those around them, and the lives of others of all life stages and in cultures all around the world. Berger's narrative voice, wide-ranging cultural perspective, and focus on universal themes captivate students from the outset, helping them grasp the important theoretical and scientific work driving the field of developmental psychology today.

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.

Part I Beginnings
1. Introduction
2. Beginnings: Theories of Development
3. Beginnings: Heredity and Environment
4. Beginnings: Parental Development and Birth

Part II The First Two Years
5. The First Two Years: Biosocial Development
6. The First Two Years: Cognitive Development
7. The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development

Part III Early Childhood
8. Early Childhood: Biosocial Development
9. Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
10. Early Childhood: Psychosocial Development

Part IV Middle Childhood
11. Middle Childhood: Biosocial Development
12. Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development
13. Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development

Part V Adolescence
14. Adolescence: Biosocial Development
15. Adolescence: Cognitive Development
16. Adolescence: Psychosocial Development

Part VI Emerging Adulthood
17. Emerging Adulthood: Biosocial Development
18. Emerging Adulthood: Cognitive Development
19. Emerging Adulthood: Psychosocial Development

Part VII Adulthood
20. Adulthood: Biosocial Development
21. Adulthood: Cognitive Development
22. Adulthood: Psychosocial Development

Part VIII: Late Adulthood
23. Late Adulthood: Biosocial Development
24. Late Adulthood: Cognitive Development
25. Late Adulthood: Psychosocial
Development

Epilogue: Death and Dying