Damon Willam, Lerner Richard M., Kuhn Deanne (eds.) Child and Adolescent Development: An Advanced Course

John Wiley & Sons, 2012. — 816 p.This advanced text for psychology, human development, and education provides students with state-of-the-art overviews of the discipline in an accessible, affordable format. Unique both in the depth of its coverage and in the timeliness of the research that it presents, this comprehensive text conveys the field of child and adolescent development through the voices of scientists who themselves are now shaping the field.
The scientific study of child and adolescent development: important issues in the field today.Neural bases of cognitive development.
Temperament.
Socialization in the family: ethnic and ecological perspectives.
Peer interactions, relationships, and groups.
Personality development.
The developing self.
Acquiring linguistic constructions.
Conceptual development.
Development in the arts: drawing and music.
Principles of emotion and emotional competence.
Development of achievement motivation.
Aggression and antisocial behavior in you.
The development of morality.
The second decade:what develops (and how)?
Adolescent development in interpersonal context.
Cultural and cognitive development in phylogenetic, historical, and ontogenetic perspective.
Gender development.
Phenomenology and ecological systems theory: development of diverse groups.