Invitation to the Life Span Fourth Edition by Kathleen Stassen Berger, ISBN-13: 978-1319140649
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- Publisher: Worth Publishers; Fourth edition (December 21, 2018)
- Language: English
- 752 pages
- ISBN-10: 1319140645
- ISBN-13: 978-1319140649
Edition after edition, Kathleen Stassen Berger’s bestselling textbooks connect students to the field of developmental psychology, in an engaging, accessible, culturally inclusive way. Berger’s Invitation to the Life Span does this in just 15 concise chapters and an epilogue, in a presentation that meets the challenges of exploring the breadth of the life span in a single term.
The new edition of Invitation to the Life Span incorporates a wide range of new research, especially in fast-moving areas such as brain development and psychopathology, while taking advantage of innovative new tools for media-centered teaching and learning.
But throughout, as always, the signature voice of Kathleen Berger ties it all together, with relatable explanations of scientific content, wide ranging cultural examples, and skill-building tools for sharper observation and critical thinking.
Table of Contents:
1. The Science of Development
2. From Conception to Birth
3. The First Two Years: Body and Mind
4. The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development
5. Early Childhood: Body and Mind
6. Early Childhood: Psychosocial Development
7: Middle Childhood: Body and Mind
8: Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development
9: Adolescence: Body and Mind
10: Adolescence: Psychosocial Development
11: Emerging Adulthood: Body, Mind, and Social World
12: Adulthood: Body and Mind
13: Adulthood: Psychosocial Development
14: Late Adulthood: Body and Mind
15: Late Adulthood: Psychosocial Development
Epilogue: Death and Dying
Kathleen Stassen Berger received her undergraduate education at Stanford University and Radcliffe College, and then she earned an M.A.T. from Harvard University and an M.S. and a 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, and teaching child and adolescent development to graduate students at Fordham University and to undergraduates at Montclair State University and Quinnipiac University. She also taught social psychology to inmates at Sing Sing Prison earning their paralegal degrees.
Currently, Berger is a professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, as she has been for most of her professional career. She began as an adjunct in English, and for the past decades she has been a full professor in the Social Sciences Department, which includes sociology, economics, anthropology, political science, human services, and psychology. She has taught 6 introduction to psychology, social psychology, abnormal psychology, human motivation, and all four developmental courses—child, adolescent, adulthood, and life span. Her students—who come from many ethnic, economic, and educational backgrounds, with varied ages, interests, and ambitions—consistently honor her with the highest teaching evaluations.
Berger is also the author of The Developing Person Through the Life Span and The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence. 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. She is among the top 100 female authors assigned in colleges in the United States and the United Kingdom, an honor she shares with Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, and 97 other well-respected women. Her research interests include adolescent identity, immigration, bullying, and grandparents, and she has published articles on human development 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 from her students, as well as from her four daughters and three grandsons.
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