PART I. UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPMENT: WHY AND HOW WE STUDY CHILDREN
AND ADOLESCENTS
Chapter 1. Introduction: Why We Study the Development of Children
and Adolescents
Chapter 2. Theories of Development
Chapter 3. How We Study Development
Part II. BEGINNINGS
CHAPTER 4. How Children Develop: Nature Through Nurture
Chapter 5. Prenatal Development, Birth and the Newborn
Part III. Building Blocks of Development: How Children Grow
Chapter 6. Physical Development: The Body and the Brain
Chapter 7. Cognitive Development
Chapter 8. Intelligence and Academic Achievement
Chapter 9. Language Development
Chapter 10. Emotional Development and Attachment
Chapter 11. Identity: The Self, Gender, and Moral Development
Chapter 12. Social Development
PART IV. CONTEXTS FOR DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 13. Families
Chapter 14. Beyond Family and School: Activities, Media and the
Natural World
Chapter 15. Health, Well-being and Resilience
Laura E. Levine received her PhD in developmental and clinical
psychology from the University of Michigan. After working with
children and families at the Children’s Psychiatric Hospital and in
private practice in Ann Arbor for 10 years, she moved to
Connecticut and was a stay-at-home mother of her two children for 6
years. She returned to academia in 1994 and taught child psychology
and life span development for 20 years at Central Connecticut State
University, where she is currently a professor emerita of the
Department of Psychological Science. She has received three
university teaching awards, and her research on the social
development of young children and on the relation between media use
and attention difficulties has appeared in journals such as
Developmental Psychology, the Journal of Applied Developmental
Psychology, Infant Mental Health Journal, Infant and Child
Development, Computers and Education, and CyberPsychology,
Behavior, and Social Networking.
Dr. Levine has been very active in promoting excellence in college
teaching. She was involved in the creation of the Center for
Teaching Excellence at Central Connecticut State University and
served on the board of the Connecticut Consortium to Enhance
Learning and Teaching. She created numerous programs for faculty
both at her university and at regional and national conferences.
Her work on the scholarship of teaching and learning can be found
in New Directions for Teaching and Learning, College Teaching and
the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning.
Joyce Munsch received her PhD in human development and family
studies from Cornell University. She was a faculty member in human
development and family studies at Texas Tech University for 14
years, where she also served as associate dean for research in the
College of Human Sciences for 2 years. In 2002, Dr. Munsch went to
the California State University at Northridge as the founding chair
and professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent
Development. She currently is an emeritus professor in the
Department.
Dr. Munsch’s research has focused on adolescent stress and coping
and social network research. Her work has been published in the
Journal of School Psychology, Adolescence, The Journal of Early
Adolescence, the Journal of Research on Adolescence, and the
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Throughout her career, Dr.
Munsch administered grants that supported community-based programs.
She was the codirector of the Early Head Start program at Texas
Tech University and co–principal investigator for three Texas Youth
Commission (Department of Juvenile Justice) grants. At Cal State
Northridge, she administered the Jumpstart program for over 10
years. Her commitment to community service learning was recognized
in 2005 when she was awarded the CSUN Visionary Community Service
Learning Award. In 2012, her service to the County of Los Angeles
was recognized by a commendation from the County Board of
Supervisors. At Texas Tech, she was the College of Human Sciences
nominee for the Hemphill-Wells New Professor Excellence in Teaching
Award, the Barnie E. Rushing Jr. Faculty Distinguished Research
Award, the El Paso Energy Foundation Faculty Achievement Award, and
the President’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and she received the
Kathryn Burleson Faculty Service Award and the College of Human
Sciences Outstanding Researcher Award.
"Levine and Munsch have made an excellent contribution to the texts
available to those of us who teach child and adolescent development
– both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I was
excited to use the text when I reviewed it for potential adoption,
and after this second review, I am even more excited. I do
not see any key weaknesses but do see the many strengths…"
—Charles
Dickel, Creighton University
*Charles Dickel*
"The book is great! I would recommend it to anyone teaching a
course in Child and Adolescent Development."
—Dan Nyaronga, SUNY Empire State College-Saratoga
*Dan Nyaronga*
"I really like this book. I love all of the resources, the book
itself is clear and provides a lot of information, and I will
definitely adopt it again."
—Kelly
Cotter, California State University-Sacramento
*Kelly Cotter*
"The strengths of this text are the topics presented…, the reading
level of the text, the resources in the chapters, pictures, charts,
Active Learning, Research, etc. I would adopt the [second] edition
of the text for all of the above."
—Sharon
Carter, Davidson County Community College-Lexington
*Sharon Carter*
"This is an extremely well written text. The authors can be
commended for the depth and scope of the content . . . easily
accessible to students."
—Dawn
Witt, California State University-Channel Islands
*Dawn Witt*
"My overall assessment of this text book is that it is well done…it
engages the students in the material but [is] also very cost
effective. I especially enjoyed how thorough the book was but that
it was not too research focused or boring to the reader. In
addition, having access to the Extended Journey in Research and
SAGE [journal] articles is a major strength."
—Nicole
Surething, Christopher Newport University
*Nicole Surething*
"In their preface, authors Laura Levine and Joyce Munsch emphasize
the need for a child development book that enables students to
create meaningful learning experiences. This text has
succeeded in achieving their goal."
"The many strengths of this text attest to the success of Levine
and Munsch in creating a comprehensive and well-written overview of
child development."
—Dalia
Gefen, Iona College
*Psychology Learning and Teaching*
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