Infant Development: A Topical Approach

by Alan Fogel

Infant A Topical Approach is a text for an infant development course that is organized around topics. This approach allows for coherent organization within domains such as sensorimotor, cognitive and brain, emotional, social and communicative development in infancy. In addition, there are chapters that cover research methods, theory, prenatal development, childbirth, health and risk, and family and culture, and the long-term effects of the infancy period. Similar to Alan Fogel's classic text, Infant, family, and society, 5th Edition (Sloan Publishing), which is organized by ages and stages, Infant A Topical Approach brings the same balance of careful scientific review of the literature, down-to-earth writing style that appeals to students, as well as many applied topics relevant to the life of infants and their families. These include infant maltreatment, attachment, poverty, infant mental health, and nutrition. Many topics are relevant to parenting such as prenatal maternal health, parental adaptation to a new baby, parental employment, and the effects of infants with special needs on families. New to this book, instructor supplements include a Test Bank which provides approximately 80 multiple-choice, true-false, matching, and essay questions per chapter, as well as an extensive set of Powerpoint Lecture Slides. And with a student price of $69.95, this text is significantly less expensive than other textbooks available for this course, some of which cost your students over $110.00.

608 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2010

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a text for my class. I found it had great insight and the big picture. However, there were numerous discrepancies in the information it provided and other sources. I also thought the organization of the information was often hard to follow. It seemed to jump age brackets and not go in a chronological order all the time. This for me, when dealing with development, was hard to keep straight when it was not presented in a time line fashion. I would recommend it as one of many resources, but not a text to turn to for statistics.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was riddled with typos and had some clear bias on the part of the author - but overall I found it very informative and useful and it is definitely a book I will hang on to for future reference.

[Mills College Library]

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