Human Growth and Development

Fifth Edition
Human Growth and Development
February 2024 | 368 pages | Sage UK
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Description

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.

Contents

Chapter 1: The Birth of a Human Being: What makes us who we are?

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 2: Below the Surface: Unconscious processes and psychodynamic insights

Chapter 3: A Secure Base: The importance of attachment

Chapter 3: A Secure Base: The importance of attachment

Chapter 4: Learning to think: The developing ability to reason

Chapter 4: Learning to think: The developing ability to reason

Chapter 5: Learning without Thinking: Ideas from behaviourism

Chapter 5: Learning without Thinking: Ideas from behaviourism

Chapter 6: Boy or Girl?: The development of sex and gender

Chapter 6: Boy or Girl?: The development of sex and gender

Chapter 7: Who Am I Going to Be? Adolescence, identity and change

Chapter 7: Who Am I Going to Be? Adolescence, identity and change

Chapter 8: Acting like a Grown-up: Challenges of adulthood

Chapter 8: Acting like a Grown-up: Challenges of adulthood

Chapter 9: Access to Adulthood: Growing up with disability

Chapter 9: Access to Adulthood: Growing up with disability

Chapter 10 No One is an Island: Family systems and their life cycle

Chapter 10 No One is an Island: Family systems and their life cycle

Chapter 11 It Takes a Village: The wider context

Chapter 11 It Takes a Village: The wider context

Chapter 12: Coming to a Conclusion: The experience of growing old

Chapter 12: Coming to a Conclusion: The experience of growing old

Chapter 13: That Good Night: Death, dying and bereavement

Chapter 13: That Good Night: Death, dying and bereavement

Description

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.

Contents

Chapter 1: The Birth of a Human Being: What makes us who we are?

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 2: Below the Surface: Unconscious processes and psychodynamic insights

Chapter 3: A Secure Base: The importance of attachment

Chapter 3: A Secure Base: The importance of attachment

Chapter 4: Learning to think: The developing ability to reason

Chapter 4: Learning to think: The developing ability to reason

Chapter 5: Learning without Thinking: Ideas from behaviourism

Chapter 5: Learning without Thinking: Ideas from behaviourism

Chapter 6: Boy or Girl?: The development of sex and gender

Chapter 6: Boy or Girl?: The development of sex and gender

Chapter 7: Who Am I Going to Be? Adolescence, identity and change

Chapter 7: Who Am I Going to Be? Adolescence, identity and change

Chapter 8: Acting like a Grown-up: Challenges of adulthood

Chapter 8: Acting like a Grown-up: Challenges of adulthood

Chapter 9: Access to Adulthood: Growing up with disability

Chapter 9: Access to Adulthood: Growing up with disability

Chapter 10 No One is an Island: Family systems and their life cycle

Chapter 10 No One is an Island: Family systems and their life cycle

Chapter 11 It Takes a Village: The wider context

Chapter 11 It Takes a Village: The wider context

Chapter 12: Coming to a Conclusion: The experience of growing old

Chapter 12: Coming to a Conclusion: The experience of growing old

Chapter 13: That Good Night: Death, dying and bereavement

Chapter 13: That Good Night: Death, dying and bereavement

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Human Growth and Development


February 2024 | 368 pages | Sage UK

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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.

Table Of Contents:

  • 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

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