Lifespan Development

This chronologically organized text presents development from a growth perspective, focusing on continuities and change throughout life. By illustrating the connections and relationships among all stages, Lifespan allows students to discover that human development is a lifelong process. The Second Edition offers an even stronger emphasis on the lifespan approach to development, as exemplified by four themes: Lifelong Growth, Continuity and Change, Changing Meanings and Changing Vantage Points, and Developmental Diversity.

• Focusing On features, in each chapter, highlight significant and timely issues in society.
• What Do You Think? questions stimulate thought for discussion, debate, or group exercises on developmental psychology issues.
• A Multi-cultural View features highlight a particular issue of development from a cross- or multi-cultural perspective.
• Working With interviews contain dialogues with experienced professionals who work with children, adolescents, adults, and seniors.