Provides an introduction to the multifaceted world of child development, its theories, its themes, and contexts. This text emphasizes diversity, a focus on individual development as well as normative development, a balance between research and applications, and coverage of the developments within the discipline.
I'll read anything Sroufe has written. He can weave research together with real life development better than anyone I know, and he taught me to look at everything through an attachment/internal working model lens.