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A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span

First Edition  ©2021 Kathleen Stassen Berger Formats: Achieve, Read & Practice, E-book, Print

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    Kathleen Berger

    Kathleen Stassen Berger transferred from Stanford University to Radcliffe, earning a B.A. and M.A.T. from Harvard University, and then an M.S. and Ph.D. from Yeshiva University, all while teaching adolescents. Her broad experience as a learner and educator includes directing a preschool, chairing philosophy at the United Nations International School, and teaching human development to graduate students at Fordham University, undergraduates at Montclair State University, aspiring professionals at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, and incarcerated individuals at Sing Sing Prison. For most of her professional career, Berger has been a professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York.

    Berger is also the author of  Invitation to the Life Span, The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence, and  A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span, as well as Grandmothering: Building Strong Ties with Every Generation. Berger’s research interests include adolescent identity, immigration, bullying, and grandparents, and she has published articles in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Psychology, Developmental Review , and Human Development, and in publications of the American Association for Higher Education and the National Education Association for Higher Education. She continues teaching and learning, not only from students and friends but also from four daughters and three grandsons.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: The Life-Span Perspective
CHAPTER 2: Theories
CHAPTER 3: Genes and Generations
CHAPTER 4: Growth Over the Life Span
CHAPTER 5: Brain Development and Neuroscience
CHAPTER 6: Sensation, Perception, and Movement
CHAPTER 7: Memory and Information Processing
CHAPTER 8: Language: Communication from Prenatal to Death
CHAPTER 9: Intelligence and Cognition
CHAPTER 10: Personality, Identity, and Self
CHAPTER 11: Sex and Gender
CHAPTER 12: Emotional and Moral Development
CHAPTER 13: Attachment: Family and Friends
CHAPTER 14: Lifelong Education
CHAPTER 15: Health, Wellness, and Developmental Psychopathology
CHAPTER 16: Death and Dying

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The Approach is Topical. The Distinction is Berger.

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This is not a reorganized iteration of another Berger textbook, but rather a fully reconceived first edition exploring human development topic by topic. But as always with Berger, it is exceptionally accessible and compelling, distinguished by an engaging narrative voice, wide-ranging cultural perspective, and an emphasis on relating universal themes  to students own lives.

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