Child and Adolescent Development in Context - International Student Edition

Unit 1: Foundations of Child and Adolescent Development
Chapter 1: Understanding Human Development: Approaches and Theories
1. What is Development?
2. Themes of Human Development
3. Theoretical Perspectives on Human Development
4. Research in Human Development
Chapter 2: Biological and Environmental Foundations of Development
1. Genetic Foundations of Development
2. Patterns of Genetic Inheritance
3. Chromosomal and Genetic Problems
4. Reproductive Choices
5. Heredity and Environment
Chapter 3: The Prenatal Period, Birth, and the Newborn
1. Prenatal Development
2. Environmental Influences on Prenatal Development
3. Childbirth
4. The Newborn
Unit 2: Infancy and Toddlerhood
Chapter 4: Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
1. Body Growth
2. Brain Development
3. Early Learning Capacities
4. Sensation and Perception
5. Motor Development
Chapter 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
1. Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Perspective
2. Information Processing
3. Language Development
Chapter 6: Socioemotional Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
1. Erikson's Theory: Psychosocial Development in Infancy
2. Emotional Development
3. Temperament
4. Attachment
5. Self-Concept and Self-Recognition
Unit 3: Early Childhood
Chapter 7: Physical Development in Early Childhood
1. Growth
2. Motor Development
3. Brain Development in Early Childhood
4. Health and Well-Being
Chapter 8: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
1. Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Perspective: Preoperational Reasoning
2. Vygotsky's Sociocultural Perspective
3. Information Processing Perspective
4. Young Children's Language Development
5. Moral Development in Early Childhood
6. Contextual Influences on Cognitive Development
Chapter 9: Socioemotional Development in Early Childhood
1. Emerging Sense of Self
2. Emotional Development
3. Parenting
4. Gender Development
5. Play and Peer Relationships
Unit 4: Middle Childhood
Chapter 10: Physical Development in Middle Childhood
1. Growth
2. Motor Development
3. Common Health Problems and Disorders
Chapter 11: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
1. Cognition
2. Intelligence
3. Moral Development
4. Language Development, Literacy, and Mathematics Skills
5. Learning and Schooling
Chapter 12: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
1. Understanding the Self
2. Peer Relations
3. Family Influences on Development
4. Common Problems
5. Fostering Resilience in Children
Unit 5: Adolescence
Chapter 13: Physical Development in Adolescence
1. Conceptions of Adolescence
2. Puberty
3. Brain Development
4. Health
5. Adolescent Sexuality
Chapter 14: Cognitive Development in Adolescence
1. Cognitive Development
2. Adolescent Moral Development
3. Schools and Academic Functioning in Adolescence
4. Work and Occupational Development
Chapter 15: Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
1. The Changing Self
2. Adolescents and Their Families
3. Adolescents and Their Peers
4. Problems in Adolescence
Epilogue: Emerging Adulthood
1. Emerging Adulthood: A New Developmental Stage?
2. Physical Development and Maturation
3. Cognitive Development and Maturation
4. Socioemotional Development and Maturation
5. Contexts of Development