Children

by John W. Santrock

John Santrock?s Children combines proven pedagogy and the most current research to provide a market leading presentation of child development. This time tested text provides compelling contemporary research, including updates from eight leading experts in the field. The text's accessible presentation, plentiful applications and engaging writing foster increased mastery of the content. The new edition includes substantially expanded material on subjects including children's health and well-being, parenting and education, diversity, culture, and gender.

Genres: Psychology, Childrens

640 pages, Hardcover

Published March 30, 2012

Reviews

[Julia Drury Mueller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this for my Child Psychology class. We were required to rent it but I bought my own copy because it's an excellent resource! The language is generally unbiased and it covers all domains of psychology and its influences from conception to emerging adulthood. I'm glad to wrap up 5 months of reading it on deadlines but more glad to have it on my bookshelf going forward in my career working with kids.

[Jerry]

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[Christa · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is utterly terrible. It's absolutely the WORST textbook I've ever encountered. Not only is it full of ridiculous, attention-grabbing icons, graphs, and decorative titles that serve no purpose aside from possibly helping the book be adopted by schools, but it also has a definite traditional gender-role view (women are made to care for children; men are made to smoke cigarettes and play with children) AND a bias against adopted children. Hateful, awful book.

[Claire Berslow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not bad; same info that my professor really focused on. Easy read - and i'm a nursing major who HATES psychology (cuz i'm good with the mathy/sciency facts in nursing and HORRIBLE with theoretical stuff that has a different answer depending on whom you ask.) But my professor and this book really helped me understand it, so that was pretty cool.