Experiencing the LifespanJanet Belsky is an innovative and accomplished teacher, an engaging and perceptive writer, as well as a practicing psychologist who has worked in many settings--from inner-city hospitals to nursing homes. Drawing on the sensibilities that have defined her professional life, Janet Belsky has produced an exploration of development across the lifespan unlike any other. Person-centered yet scientifically sound, practice-oriented yet rich in current and classic research, Belsky's Experiencing the Lifespan offers students an experience learning about life that they will take to heart. And at around just 550 pages, it is an experience that fits comfortably within a single term. |
Contents
CONTENTS | 8 |
CHAPTER | 13 |
Theorizing About the Nature of Human Similarities | 17 |
Research Methods | 24 |
Final Thoughts | 31 |
Prenatal Development | 39 |
Threats to the Developing Baby | 48 |
Birth | 60 |
Final Thoughts | 265 |
How High School Defined Adolescence | 268 |
Teenage Relationships | 289 |
Constructing an Identity | 307 |
Another Perspective on U S Dating and Mating | 323 |
Early and Middle Adulthood | 332 |
Midlife | 364 |
Mike PowellGetty Images | 378 |
Marcias Story | 66 |
Infancy | 70 |
Brain Blossoming and Sculpting | 74 |
What Quiets a Young Baby? | 81 |
Sensory and Motor Development | 87 |
BabyProofing the First PersonEnvironment Fit | 93 |
Socioemotional Development | 106 |
Childhood | 136 |
Childhood Fears Animism and the Power | 138 |
Using Piagets Ideas at Home and Work | 153 |
Using InformationProcessing Theory at Home and at Work | 159 |
Specific Cognitive Skills | 165 |
Key Terms | 171 |
Socioemotional Development | 172 |
Promoting Realistic Self Esteem | 178 |
Relationships | 187 |
Bullying | 198 |
Home and School | 204 |
Home and School | 206 |
Adolescence | 236 |
Body Image Issues | 253 |
Sexuality | 259 |
Cognitive and Socioemotional | 395 |
Keeping Memory FineTuned | 405 |
Social Policy Retirement Issues | 415 |
Key Terms | 421 |
Taking a Broader View of What Causes Disease | 430 |
Driving in Old Age | 436 |
Options and Services for the Frail Elderly | 444 |
Final Thoughts | 448 |
Death and Dying | 454 |
268 | 461 |
The HealthCare System | 462 |
Taking Control of How We Die | 469 |
Key Terms | 475 |
Physical Development 238 | 10 |
Later Life | 14 |
Glossary | 1 |
References | 1 |
ENDINGS DEATH AND DYING | 2 |
Name Index NI1 | 1 |
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