The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence

Bring human development to life for your students with The Developing Person through Childhood and Adolescence by Kathleen Stassen Berger and new co-author Kendra Thomas (Hope College). Through engaging storytelling, personal anecdotes, case studies, and findings drawn from thousands of research articles and datasets, the text helps students connect key concepts to real-world experiences across childhood and adolescence.

The new edition introduces the Think Like a Developmentalist framework, designed to strengthen critical thinking and enquiry skills in developmental science. Students are introduced to five core developmental principles in Chapter 1 and asked to apply them throughout the course as they explore topics such as attachment, puberty, identity and parenting.