The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence

Kathleen Stassen Berger completed her undergraduate education at Stanford University and Radcliffe College, earned her M.A.T. from Harvard University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. Her broad range of experience as an educator includes directing a preschool, teaching philosophy and humanities at the United Nations International School, teaching child and adolescent development to graduate students at Fordham University, teaching inmates earning paralegal degrees at Sing Sing Prison, and teaching undergraduates at both Montclair State University and Quinnipiac University. She has also been involved in education as the president of Community School Board in District Two in Manhattan.

1. Introduction.- 2. Theories.- 3. Heredity and Environment.- 4. Prenatal Development and Birth.- 5. The First Two Years: Biosocial Development.- 6. The First Two Years: Cognitive Development.- 7. The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development.- 8. Early Childhood: Biosocial Development.- 9. Early Childhood: Cognitive Development.- 10. Early Childhood: Psychosocial Development.- 11. Middle Childhood: Biosocial Development.- 12. Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development.- 13. Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development.- 14. Adolescence: Biosocial Development.- 15. Adolescence: Cognitive Development.- 16. Adolescence: Psychosocial Development.- Epilogue: Emerging Adulthood.