The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development

In approximately 800 signed articles by experts from a wide diversity of fields, this encyclopedia explores all individual and situational factors related to human development across the lifespan.

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Lifespan human development is the study of all aspects of biological, physical, cognitive, socioemotional, and contextual development from conception to the end of life. In approximately 800 signed articles by experts from a wide diversity of fields, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development explores all individual and situational factors related to human development across the lifespan.

Some of the broad thematic areas will include:



Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Aging
Behavioral and Developmental Disorders
Cognitive Development
Community and Culture
Early and Middle Childhood
Education through the Lifespan
Genetics and Biology
Gender and Sexuality
Life Events
Mental Health through the Lifespan
Research Methods in Lifespan Development
Speech and Language Across the Lifespan
Theories and Models of Development.

This five-volume encyclopedia promises to be an authoritative, discipline-defining work for students and researchers seeking to become familiar with various approaches, theories, and empirical findings about human development broadly construed, as well as past and current research.