Cengage Advantage Books: Child Development

A Thematic Approach

Danuta Bukatko, Marvin W. Daehler

Publisher: Wadsworth

Published: 2011

ISBN-13: 9781111345341

ISBN-10: 1111345341

Pages: 752

Subjects: Education / Teaching / General, Psychology / General, Psychology / Developmental / Child, Psychology / Clinical Psychology, Psychology / Psychotherapy / General, Self-Help / General

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About Cengage Advantage Books: Child Development

Bukatko/Daehler's CHILD DEVELOPMENT: A THEMATIC APPROACH provides a comprehensive, topically organized, up-to-date picture of development from conception to adolescence. Most important, it draws students' attention to the themes that replay themselves throughout the course of development, fundamental issues that resurface continually and that provide coherence to sometimes seemingly disparate research. The themes can serve as frameworks to help students further understand and remember the multitude of facts about child development. Bukatko/Daehler's sixth edition text draws on five themes, Nature and Nurture, Sociocultural Influence, Continuity/Discontinuity, Interaction among Domains, and Risk/Resilience. By drawing on these themes, the authors hope to stimulate readers to think about the process of development, or why it proceeds as it does. Through new For Your Review and Reflection sections, the authors also hope students will engage with the text and become more adept critical thi...

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