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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.
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Invitation to the Life Span Canadian Edition by Kathleen Stassen Berger; Susan Chuang - First Edition, 2014 from Macmillan Student Store

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.

Features

Co-author Susan S. Chuang
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

Chapter 1
• 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
 
Chapter 2: Conception to birth
• A View From Science: Why Are Infant Mortality Rates So High in Canada?
 
Chapter 3: First two years
• Poverty and Brain Development in Canada
• Piaget’s sensorimotor intelligence section was revised
 
Chapter 4: First two years
• Attachment and Aborignal views on family life
• Stress and the importance of human hugs
Chapter 5: Early childhood
• 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
 
Chapter 6: Early childhood
• 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.
 
Chapter 7: Middle childhood
• Physical activity
• A View from Science: Canadian Kids Get an “F” in Physical Activity
• Aboriginal education (almost 3 pages)
• Special education in Canada
 
Chapter 8: Middle childhood
• Culture and family structure (astronaut families)
• Moral development: included the Social Domain Theory
 
Chapter 9: Adolescence
• Opposing Perspectives: Misconceptions about Bullying (Amanda Todd)
• Education: innovative programs in Canada
 
Chapter 10: Adolescence
• 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)
 
Chapter 11 to Epilogue
• Significant Canadian information throughout chapter, with comparisons to other countries
 
Chapter 15: Adulthood
• Focus on stratification, poverty and immigrant seniors and aboriginals
 
 
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First Edition| ©2014

Kathleen Stassen Berger; Susan Chuang

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First Edition| 2014

Kathleen Stassen Berger; Susan Chuang

Table of Contents

Part I: The Beginning
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 Development

Part IV: Middle Childhood
7. Middle Childhood: Body and Mind
8. Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development

Part 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 Development

Epilogue: Death and Dying
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Kathleen Stassen Berger

Kathleen Stassen Berger received her undergraduate education at Stanford University and Radcliffe College, earned an M.A.T. from Harvard University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. Her broad experience as an educator includes directing a preschool, serving as chair of philosophy at the United Nations International School, teaching child and adolescent development to graduate students at Fordham University and undergraduates at Montclair State University in New Jersey and at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, as well as teaching social psychology to inmates at Sing Sing Prison. Throughout most of her professional career, Berger has worked at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, first as an adjunct and for the past two decades as a full professor. She has taught introduction to psychology, child and adolescent development, adulthood and aging, social psychology, abnormal psychology, and human motivation. Her students—who come from many ethnic, economic, and educational backgrounds and who have a wide range of ages and interests—consistently honor her with the highest teaching evaluations.

Berger is also the author of The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence, The Developing Person Through the Life Span, and A Topical Approach to the Developing Person Through the Life Span. Her developmental texts are currently being used at more than 700 colleges and universities worldwide and are available in Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, as well as English. Her research interests include adolescent identity, immigration, and bullying, and she has published many articles on developmental topics in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Psychology and in publications of the American Association for Higher Education and the National Education Association for Higher Education. She continues teaching and learning as her four daughters and three grandsons continue to develop, as she interacts with students every semester, and as she revises each edition of her books.She is also the author of Grandmothering: Building Strong Ties with Every Generation (2019).


Susan Chuang

Susan S. Chuang received her undergraduate degree in criminology and sociology at the University of Toronto. At the University of Rochester, in New York, she earned an MS in elementary education, and an MS and PhD in human development. She also received post-doctoral training at the National Institutes of Health, in Maryland.
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.

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