The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals

by Patricia C. Broderick, Pamela Blewitt

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The Life Human Development for Helping Professionals, 5th Edition, provides an in-depth look at the science of human development, highlighting theories and research that have useful applications for individuals working in fields such as education, counseling, and social work. The main purpose of this book is to provide the reader with information that can be translated into professional best practice applications. Throughout, the text reflects the contemporary view that life span development is a process deeply embedded within and inseparable from the context of family, social network, and culture.

Because the book is designed for graduate students, most topics, especially those that have special relevance to helping professionals, are covered in greater depth than in a typical life span text. The expanded coverage of research in these areas will enhance readers' understanding of the scientific basis for application to practice.

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Genres: Counselling, Psychology, Grad School, Textbooks, School, Nonfiction

816 pages, Paperback

Published May 14, 2024

About the author

Patricia C. Broderick, PhD, is a research associate at the Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development at Penn State University and founder of the Stress Reduction Center at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of the mindfulness-based stress reduction advanced practicum at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Broderick is a licensed clinical psychologist as well as a certified school psychologist and counselor for grades K through 12. In addition, she is the author of The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals, a textbook for graduate-level students and mental health professionals.

Reviews

[Lolly]

Informative check. Lengthy check. Dry check.

[Ashley]

In my opinion the chapters were a little too long. However the application sections at the end of chapters was very helpful and worth reading.

[Natalie Kaufman]

This book does a TERRIBLE job of unpacking gender and sexuality as it relates to human development. The section on LGBT* individuals was essentially just rehashing Freud's theory that homosexual teens are screwed up and then refuting it without offering a better explanation. Maybe one page, tops. The section on gender, meanwhile, ignores all of the scientific evidence there are more than two genders and instead says something along the lines of "sooooome people say there are more genders but we aren't those people we're just going to talk about man and woman GOOD BYE"

very disappointed.

[Abigail Wingard]

In terms of organization, information presented, and balanced, not-political bias, this was a good textbook. But man, it's been five years since I read a textbook and I forgot what a slog they are.

[Krista]

I don't normally count textbooks, but I think I would have tried reading this even if I hadn't HAD to. Unfortunately, it's not a well-written book. Much of the coverage is surface level - there's a difference between a survey of literature and a pass-through of knowledge. This book is the latter. Additionally, the authors make some statements about sex, gender, and sexual orientation that are actively offensive, dismissing a lot of respected academic literature to forward some pretty archaic ideas about all three.

[Drew Van Gorder]

As far as books for a psychology course which I'm taking goes, this book wasn't that bad. It was fairly academic while still having interesting facts, tables, and information within it which is relevant to my career in psychology. However, the material in some places got a little dry and long-winded. I understand in academia the textbooks can't all be life-changing. This one was pretty good, but not great.

[Daniel Eggert]

One of the better textbooks I've had so far. The crunchy science portions (epigenesis, myelination, etc) can get a bit dense, but this was well researched and did a good job of balancing classic/seminal theory with more recent research on each lifecycle phase of human development.

Maybe the first textbook of this master's program that I'd keep on my bookshelf for later reference

[Katherine]

This book is perhaps overly informative. If you are a beginner, go with something that's is more to the point; while you will read about develop here, there is so much extra information that it is not always clear what the point is. The writing, while written at an appropriate level for the target audience, is extremely dense and dry.

[Alejandra]

I had to read this book for class and although it did have some great information, it was just soooo wordy. The chapters were way too long and it was hard to follow. The chapters also has a lot of information that really wasn't needed. It seemed like the author wanted to fill as many pages as they could

[Monster]

Really makes me wonder what queer, disabled, biopoc leadership would do to the publishing world. Such a frustrating text, taught by a prof who made no moves to even name the glaring absence of considerations for anyone who isn't hetero-cis and white.

[Alec]

I found this textbook to be immensely frustrating. It was poorly written: overly long without defining anything clearly. I found myself having to use outside resources often to understand the key concepts and theories. The discussions of intersex individuals, gender identity, and sexuality weren't just outdated (which isn't acceptable when the newest edition was published in 2020), they were outright offensive. The discussion of minority stress theory was cursory despite it being a critically important theory. Multicultural considerations were largely confined to the applications sections, rather than integrated throughout.

[Kathryn]

I'm going to give this a 2.5.. while some chapters were really helpful and insightful, there were a few that were very outdated in their concepts and terminology. As a future counselor, I likely wouldn't recommend this book to others in the profession as I'm hoping there are more updated options out there to better support our work with clients.

[Arie]

Summarizes a lot of research but unnecessarily long and wordy. Also disappointed the authors don’t critique the literature, they present some outdated theories without really commenting on why certain findings are problematic to generalize to a larger population especially as they relate to diversity.

[Natalie Angel]

This book is full of many different developmental theories that was very interesting to read. That being said, it was dense at times and the chapters on gender and sexuality were quite dated. However, I did enjoy the case studies that were throughout the chapters that showed the theories in life examples.

[Tiffeny]

If you need to read a psychology book on the human lifecycle, this is a good one. A bit dry and overly scientific in parts for my liking, but I also appreciated that they repeatedly stated there are multiple paths and no one "right" way for everyone.

[Katie]

I had to read this for a graduate developmental psych class. As far as required reading goes, this wasn't bad. I found that most of the end of chapter content and box/table content was significantly more interesting and beneficial.

[Taylor]

I found this to be very helpful in my studies as a Music Therapy. At times the text was bland, but I mean it is a school book so that is expected with most. Reading about different theories throughout the lifespan was very interesting as well.

[Cheza Maye]

A comprehensive and advance take on the study of human development. It synthesizes the nature and nurture debate across all chapters and also includes reflective practice questions for readers. Recommended for teaching advanced developmental psychology.

[Bowen Ben]

Informative, but dense. Lost me frequently as chapters were just run on information and did not do much to engage the reader. Felt more of a chore reading chapters instead of the natural wonder of discovering concepts and methods for applicable use.

[Taylor Caruso - Bucher]

I enjoyed the questions to think about during each chapter. It presented the opportunity to question the material and ponder on ways to improve or research different ideas.

[Tim Tuttle]

Very informative but dry and excessive ...even for a text book...but a good reference

[Caroline Abbott]

I read this for my human development course for my counseling master's degree. It was thorough, interesting, and applicable.

[Joshua]

A rather good, and well written overview of human development from a psychological perspective.

[Avid reader]

I love studying human development in the light of psychotherapy. So cool.

[Pete]

Definitely not an enjoyable read-chapters were long and dense-but I did learn a lot.

[Jennifer Conner]

A heavy textbook (physically and cerebrally), but helpful in diving deep into the cognitive, emotional, social, and moral development aspects of human growth and development.

[Emma]

This was a looooooong textbook and sometimes discussed things to the point of boredom… but I learned A LOT and will definitely use the information from this book for my career in counseling.

[Sarah Walsh]

It turns out you learn a looootttt when you actually read your textbooks. Thoroughly enjoyed but also thoroughly struggled to understand the complex long winded chapters for 16 weeks straight! :-)

[Stephanie Brown]

This was definitely not an easy read, but I totally psychology-nerded out on this textbook!

[sarah]

Informative for my developmental psychology course material!