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Human Growth and Development
Fifth Edition
- Chris Beckett - University of East Anglia, UK
- Hilary Taylor - Anglia Ruskin University, UK
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January 2024 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Our bestselling guide to human growth and development across the life course is back again! Following the shape of a human life, beginning with birth and ending with death, this book combines theoretical concepts and reflective learning to help anyone studying for a career in the helping professions develop an understanding of what makes us grow and change over our lives. Written by two authors with extensive experience in the helping professions, this edition also includes a brand new chapter on the development of sex and gender.
The online case study resource – Tangled Webs
Follow the lives of people living in the fictional London Borough of Bexford, with 12 extended case studies to help you explore key issues and themes raised in the book as well as developing the skill of linking theory to practice.
The online case study resource – Tangled Webs
Follow the lives of people living in the fictional London Borough of Bexford, with 12 extended case studies to help you explore key issues and themes raised in the book as well as developing the skill of linking theory to practice.
Chapter 1: The Birth of a Human Being: What makes us who we are?
Chapter 2: Below the Surface: Unconscious processes and psychodynamic insights
Chapter 3: A Secure Base: The importance of attachment
Chapter 4: Learning to think: The developing ability to reason
Chapter 5: Learning without Thinking: Ideas from behaviourism
Chapter 6: Boy or Girl?: The development of sex and gender
Chapter 7: Who Am I Going to Be? Adolescence, identity and change
Chapter 8: Acting like a Grown-up: Challenges of adulthood
Chapter 9: Access to Adulthood: Growing up with disability
Chapter 10 No One is an Island: Family systems and their life cycle
Chapter 11 It Takes a Village: The wider context
Chapter 12: Coming to a Conclusion: The experience of growing old
Chapter 13: That Good Night: Death, dying and bereavement
