Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence 12th Edition by Kathleen Stassen Berger (2020)

Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence, 12th Edition by Kathleen Stassen Berger is the most engaging, research-rich, and student-friendly child and adolescent development textbook available — the trusted resource that uses compelling real-world stories to connect classic and current developmental research to the lives of real people from a variety of cultures, giving students a more complete and nuanced picture of childhood and adolescent development. Published by Worth Publishers/Macmillan Higher Education.

Berger's distinctive storytelling approach brings developmental research to life by connecting theory and data to authentic human experiences across a wide range of cultural and social contexts. The 12th Edition is thoroughly updated with the most current developmental science, featuring new research findings, updated statistics, and contemporary cultural examples that reflect the diversity of children's and adolescents' lives in the modern world.

The text covers all major domains of child and adolescent development — biosocial, cognitive, and psychosocial — across the full span from prenatal development through the end of adolescence. Each chapter integrates findings from neuroscience, genetics, psychology, sociology, and public health to provide students with a comprehensive, multidisciplinary understanding of how children and adolescents develop in biological, social, and cultural context.

Ideal for undergraduate developmental psychology, child development, and lifespan development courses in psychology, education, social work, nursing, and human services programs. Key topics include: prenatal development, infancy and toddlerhood, early and middle childhood, cognitive development, language acquisition, moral development, identity formation, and adolescent brain development and risk behavior.