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The Developing Person Through the Life Span
Kathleen Stassen Berger's The Developing Person Through the Life Span is a perennial bestseller instructors depend upon for an authoritative portrait of the field.  Enhanced with carefully crafted learning tools, its warm narrative style and emphasis on diverse lives and universal themes that speak directly to students.

With this new edition, that tradition is brought forward in a captivating new way.Cutting-edge research, electronic tools, and comprehensive insight combine to make The Developing Person Through the LifeSpan, Seventh Edition, the text that instructors need. With this edition, the ideal life-span text is better
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Price: $87.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Development Across the Life Span (5th Edition) (MyDevelopmentLab Series)

For classes in lifespan development.

 

Development Across the Lifespan offers students a chronological overview of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development–from conception through death. It presents up-to-date coverage of theory and research, with an emphasis on the application of these concepts by students in their personal–and future professional–lives. The text taps into students’ inherent interest in the subject of human development, encouraging them to draw connections between the material and their own experiences.

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Price: $85.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]


The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals (2nd Edition)
The first developmental book written specifically for helping professionals, The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals, Second Edition, provides an in-depth look at developmental theories and how they apply 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. This edition features a new chapter on well-being in adulthood, expanded counseling applications sections, current research on developmental psychopathology and prevention science, and a book-specific companion website.  .
Price: $78.23 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Human Development: A Life-Span View
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A LIFE-SPAN VIEW, Fourth Edition provides students with balanced coverage of the entire life span. John C. Cavanaugh's extensive research in gerontology, combined with Robert V. Kail's expertise in childhood and adolescence, result in a textbook that presents complete and balanced coverage of all life stages. Utilizing a modified chronological approach, the authors trace development from conception through late life in sequential order, while also dedicating several chapters to important topical issues pertaining to particular points in the life span. This Fourth Edition includes unparalleled technology integration to help students better understand and remember the enormous amount of information covered in this course..
Price: $56.63 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span
This comprehensive text provides the most current and accurate health promotion and disease prevention information available. The book addresses health promotion for all ages and all population groups - individuals, families, and communities. It includes extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the life span, with an emphasis on normal development as well as the specific problems and health promotion issues common to each stage. A complete unit is devoted to health promotion interventions. It also offers a unique assessment framework based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns to provide consistency in presentation and an approach in line with the promotion of health.

  • Extensive coverage of growth and development throughout all stages of the life span.
  • A unit on specific interventions for health promotion.
  • Addresses health promotion for all population groups - individual, family, and the community.
  • Incorporates Case Studies that depict actual clinical situations to give students a "real-life" perspective.
  • Innovative Practice examples highlight unique and creative health promotion programs.
  • Summarizes specific clinical interventions in Health Teaching boxes to provide students with "how-to" nursing actions.
  • Think About It clinical scenarios provide critical thinking questions to help readers grasp important concepts.
  • Multicultural Awareness boxes present cultural perspectives important to care planning.
  • Introduces significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion through Hot Topics boxes to engage students in critical discussion and debate about these topics.
  • Research Highlights emphasize current research efforts and research opportunities in health promotion.


  • A new Study Questions section (with answers and rationales) helps you review and assess your understanding of chapter content.
  • Care Plans are presented in a consistent format: Nursing Diagnosis, Defining Characteristics, Related Factors, Expected Outcomes, and Interventions.
  • Healthy People 2010 boxes highlight current national health promotion priorities.
  • A new full-color design helps to highlight important features and content.
  • A new companion Evolve website offers case studies with questions and answers, WebLinks, content updates, and a Glossary with search capability to enhance your learning experience.
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Price: $55.45 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span
Help your students save valuable time -- make sure they use the best care planning book available! Extensively revised and updated throughout with the latest NANDA, NIC and NOC content, Nursing Care Plans Across the Life Span, 7th edition, also addresses the most recent advances in diagnostic testing and pharmacological therapies..
Price: $39.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Life-Span Human Development
Known for its clear, straightforward writing style, comprehensive coverage, strong and current research-based approach, and excellent visuals and tables, LIFE-SPAN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT offers sections on four life stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Each chapter focuses on a domain of development such as physical growth, cognition, or personality, and traces developmental trends and influences in that domain from infancy to old age. This unique, topical organization helps you comprehend the processes of transformation occurring in each key area of human development. The new edition includes a clear focus on the complex interactions of nature and nurture in development, more integrated coverage of culture and diversity, and an exciting new media package for students..
Price: $109.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Life-span Development
Completely revised and featuring a new design, Life-Span Development 8th edition is the most accurate and up to date text available Applauded by adopters as eloquently written and intelligently presented, this text bears John Santrock’s trademark balance of accurate, current content for faculty and effective pedagogy for students. Included in this new edition are the most cutting edge research available and thoroughly integrated coverage of culture, ethnicity and gender. For students, Santrock’s student-celebrated pedagogical system has been enhanced to better help students see how the course material fits together. The new edition features extended coverage of aging material, along with thoroughly updated references and enhanced pedagogical features..
Price: $90.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Essentials of Life-Span Development
The entire lifespan in 500 pages. What’s the greatest challenge in teaching the Life-Span Development course? Covering a lifetime of material in a single term. Instructors from across the country have clamored for a streamlined text that captures the core concepts of life-span development. Essentials of Life-Span Development was carefully designed and constructed to deliver these core concepts along with a strong applications focus reflecting the broad range of interests and backgrounds of students taking this course. And as always with John Santrock’s texts, the latest research in the field is incorporated throughout..
Price: $74.73 [Notify me when price goes down.]


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