Child Development

A Cultural Approach, Australian Edition

Jeffrey Arnett, Ashley Maynard, Charlotte Brownlow, Laurie Chapin, Tanya Machin (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

2019
Pearson (Verlag)
978-1-4886-2074-4 (ISBN)

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Australia and New Zealand edition Provides students with a portrayal of development covering the whole amazing range of human cultural diversity around the world, with particular attention to Australia and New Zealand. Cultural approach: with close attention to development in our own part of the world as well as beyond. Child development is portrayed as it takes place across all the different varieties of cultural patterns that people have devised in response to their local conditions and the creative inspiration of their imaginations.

Local and global focus: explores a balance of examples of research from Australia, New Zealand, the US, and throughout the world, students will learn how culture shapes human development at all stages of the lifespan.

Dedicated coverage of toddlerhood and emerging adulthood: two separate chapters providing specific coverage of the crucial developmental changes, and the influence culture can have, on these life-stages.

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Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology in 1986 from the University of Virginia, and did 3 years of postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago. Ashley Maynard is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, where she has been on the faculty since 2001. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology in 1999 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and did two years of postdoctoral study in Anthropology and Cultural Psychology in the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. Charlotte Brownlow is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Counselling at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Originally from the United Kingdom, she received her PhD in 2007 from The University of Brighton, focusing on the identity construction of people with autism/autistic people. Laurie Chapin is a Psychology Lecturer at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. Originally from the United States, in 2010 she completed her PhD in applied social psychology, with an emphasis on life span development, at Colorado State University. Tanya Machin is a Psychology and Counselling Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Counselling at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. She received her PhD in 2016, which focused on the social cues of rejection and acceptance on Facebook.

1. A cultural approach to child development
2. Genetics and prenatal development
3. Birth and the newborn child
4. Infancy
5. Toddlerhood
6. Early childhood
7. Middle childhood
8. Adolescence
9. Emerging adulthood

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Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2019
Sprache	englisch
Maße	220 x 277 mm
Gewicht	1500 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Handelsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4886-2074-1 / 1488620741
ISBN-13	978-1-4886-2074-4 / 9781488620744
Zustand	Neuware