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Invitation to the Life Span Canadian Edition
First Edition| ©2014 Kathleen Stassen Berger; Susan Chuang
Kathleen Bergers Invitation to the Life Span is widely acclaimed for covering the breadth of the life span in single term (is just 15 concise chapters). Now, Berger and Susan Chuang have adapted Invitation for a Canadian audience.ISBN:9781464157325
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Kathleen Bergers Invitation to the Life Span is widely acclaimed for covering the breadth of the life span in single term (is just 15 concise chapters). Now, Berger and Susan Chuang have adapted Invitation for a Canadian audience.
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Dr. Chuang is an associate professor at the University of Guelph, Ontario, with research interests in parenting, fathering, and child development in various sociocultural contexts.She is the Series Editor for Advances on Immigrant Family Research and Associate Editor for the Journal of Family Psychology.
Dr. Chuang has helped develop community workshops on topics such as parenting and child/youth development, and has organized five international conferences on immigration. Canadian Content Throughout
This version has more extensive Canadian content, more deeply integrated, than similar textbooks intended for Canadian students, with new examples, new photos, and new boxed features, such as Opposing Perspectives.15-Chapter Format
The thoroughly reconsidered table of contents covers the essentials for the course in a format that fits easily in a one-term syllabus.
Cutting-Edge Research
Coverage includes new developments, in late-breaking research areas from epigenetics to end-of-life care. Special emphasis is on brain development, culture, genetics, and emotional development. Berger includes this research in a way your students will understand and be able to apply in their future careers.
Attention to Cultural Diversity
Berger highlights cultural differences and universals and their impact on the values and customs that shape individual development and makes culture an enlightening, unifying theme for the text.
Critical Thinking and Applications-Based Pedagogy
From the chapter opening stories, the “A View From Science” to the questions presented in "Observational Quizzes", Critical Thinking”, “Especially for..." and “Understanding the Numbers” marginalia, to the visual concept summaries, Berger’s pedagogy has students thinking about the real implications—for themselves and for the world at large—of the material they are learning.
Visual Concept Reviews
This feature maps out the key ideas and applications of each chapter graphically, making it easier for visually-oriented learners to summarize and retain the most important material.
Dedicated Media and Supplements Package
Invitation to the Life Span, Canadian Edition has its own teaching and learning resources, include its own Test Bank and LaunchPad online course space.
New to This Edition
• The Multicultural Context in Canada (two pages)
• Family Systems theory was included to provide students a theoretical framework when the chapters discuss individuals within families
• A View From Science: Why Are Infant Mortality Rates So High in Canada?
• Poverty and Brain Development in Canada
• Piaget’s sensorimotor intelligence section was revised
• Attachment and Aborignal views on family life
• Stress and the importance of human hugs
• Obesity in Canada
• Sabrina’s Law: Ontarian girl dies of peanut allergy at school
• Lead and Canadian federal laws
• Learning two languages, bilingual children and language, and bilingual education
• Headstart and Aboriginal children
• Canadian children and media
• Kinship care and Jordan’s Principle: First Nations Manibotan boy has a rare disorder as hospitalized for his first two years of life. He was ready to go home after his second birth but for three extra years, the federal and provincial governments were disputing on which government would be fiscally responsible. Shortly after this fifth birthday, Jordan accidently pulled out his breathing tube and died in the hospital.
• Physical activity
• A View from Science: Canadian Kids Get an “F” in Physical Activity
• Aboriginal education (almost 3 pages)
• Special education in Canada
• Culture and family structure (astronaut families)
• Moral development: included the Social Domain Theory
• Opposing Perspectives: Misconceptions about Bullying (Amanda Todd)
• Education: innovative programs in Canada
• Political identity: e.g., Malala Yousafazi, 14-year-old schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban in Swat, Pakistan, for campaigning for a girl’s right to attend school and receive an education
• Included ethnic identity
• Opposing Perspectives: Honour Killing or Domestic Violence? (Canadian family)
• Significant information on Canadian youth (e.g., drug use and abuse, depression)
• Significant Canadian information throughout chapter, with comparisons to other countries
• Focus on stratification, poverty and immigrant seniors and aboriginals

Invitation to the Life Span Canadian Edition
First Edition| ©2014
Kathleen Stassen Berger; Susan Chuang
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Invitation to the Life Span Canadian Edition
First Edition| 2014
Kathleen Stassen Berger; Susan Chuang
Table of Contents
1. The Science of Human Development
2. From Conception to Birth
Part II: The First Two Years
3. The First Two Years: Body and Mind
4. The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development
Part III: Early Childhood
5. Early Childhood: Body and Mind
6. Early Childhood: Psychosocial DevelopmentPart IV: Middle Childhood
7. Middle Childhood: Body and Mind
8. Middle Childhood: Psychosocial DevelopmentPart V: Adolescence
9. Adolescence: Body and Mind
10. Adolescence: Psychosocial Development
Part VI: Adulthood
11. Emerging Adulthood: Body, Mind, and Social World
12. Adulthood: Body and Mind
13. Adulthood: Psychosocial Development
Part VII: Late Adulthood
14. Late Adulthood: Body and Mind
15. Late Adulthood: Psychosocial DevelopmentEpilogue: Death and Dying

Invitation to the Life Span Canadian Edition
First Edition| 2014
Kathleen Stassen Berger; Susan Chuang
Authors

Kathleen Stassen Berger

Susan Chuang
Chuang’s lines of research include parenting, fathering, parent–child relationships, child and adolescent development, and school readiness in various sociocultural contexts (e.g., North American, Asian, and Latino countries). She also focuses on settlement and immigration issues.
Chuang collaborates with various local and national organizations and leads community-based projects across Canada. She conducts workshops on various topics, including parenting, parent–child relationships, youth development, and studying tips and strategies. Audiences range from youth to young adults to parents of all ages.
Chuang is the co-editor of books such as On New Shores: Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America and Immigrant Children: Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation, and of special journal issues that focus on families and immigration, including Sex Roles (2009) and the Journal of Family Psychology (2009). She is currently the editor of Springer Science+Business Media’s series Advances in Immigrant Family Research. The first book in the series is Gender Roles in Immigrant Families. In addition, Chuang organizes the On New Shores international conferences, which focus on immigrant families. They feature leading scholars from various disciplines as well as community and governmental agencies and other non-academic delegates.

Invitation to the Life Span Canadian Edition
First Edition| 2014
Kathleen Stassen Berger; Susan Chuang
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First Edition| 2014
Kathleen Stassen Berger; Susan Chuang
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