Life Span, The: Human Development for Helping Professionals - Hardcover

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Patricia Broderick is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.

Pamela Blewitt teaches in the Department of Psychology at Villanova University.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

The first developmental textbook written specifically for helping professionals and graduate-level students, The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals, Third Edition, provides an in-depth look at the science of human development and how it applies to the fields of counseling, social work and psychology. Using counseling applications, case studies, special topics boxes, and journal questions, the text introduces developmental theories and research within the context of clinical practice.

Written with a primary focus on linking theory and research to counseling applications, the new third edition features expanded coverage of psycholopathology in developmental context as well as added material on the latest development-related neuroscientific findings. The revised edition also provides an open access text-specific companion website that offers a full range of multimedia instructor supplements.

NEW! Expanded emphasis on neuro-scientific findings related to development. This up-to-date material incorporatesadvances in research on brain development and physiological processes that affect development.