Balanced coverage of the entire life span is just one thing that distinguishes HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A LIFE-SPAN VIEW, 5TH EDITION. With its comprehensive, succinct, and applied coverage, the book has proven its ability to capture users' interest while introducing them to the issues, forces, and outcomes that make us who we are. Robert V. Kail's ...
Intended for adult development and ageing courses in departments of psychology, human development, nursing, social work, education, home economics and gerontology, this text offers a presentation of theory and applications. This edition reflects changing interests and research in the field of ageing. An important change is the introduction of a ...
Balanced coverage of the entire life span is just one thing that distinguishes "Human Development: A Life-Span View, 5th Edition". With its comprehensive, succinct, and applied coverage, the text has proven its ability to capture students' interest while introducing them to the issues, forces, and outcomes that make us who we are. Robert V. Kail's ...
Written by key researchers and practitioners in the field, this book presents an overview of gerontology appropriate for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. It includes seminal chapters on theory, methodology, physiological processes, health, culture, dying and bereavement, cognitive processes and intellectual abilities, personality, ...
Covering the theories, methods, and discoveries of developmental psychology, this introductory textbook describes the foundations and ecology of development, and its occurrence in the areas of language, learning, cognition, sociality, and personality.
This text analyzes the roles of biology, psychology, and social forces in the processes of human development, providing treatment of childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and aging. Kail (U. of Maryland, College Park) and Cavanaugh (U. of North Carolina, Wilmington) incorporate a variety of techniques
This edited work provides psychology instructors with practical instruction for integrating ageing and adult development topics into their courses. The field of gerontology is one of the fastest growing areas in psychology. However, most undergraduate psychology students are rarely exposed to research and theory about the topic in their core ...
This volume examines positive development across adulthood with particular emphasis on postformal thought. The editors acknowledge that researchers have compiled a substantial body of descriptive evidence about the styles of thinking used by adults under certain conditions. The questions that remain are whether these styles reflect qualitative ...
Kail and Cavanaugh "tell the story of life span" in a narrative that is intuitive and holistic -- eliminating the redundancy of describing the life span via the traditional 5 x 3 or similar organizational structure. The book's four-part structure reflects "early childhood", "the school years", "the working/raising children years", and "later life" ...
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