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.

PART I The Beginnings.- Chapter 1 The Science of Development.- Chapter 2 Theories.- Chapter 3 The New Genetics.- Chapter 4 Prenatal Development and Birth.- PART II The First Two Years.- Chapter 5 The First Two Years: Biosocial Development.- Chapter 6 The First Two Years: Cognitive Development.- Chapter 7 The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development.- PART III Early Childhood.- Chapter 8 Early Childhood: Biosocial Development.- Chapter 9 Early Childhood: Cognitive Development.- Chapter 10 Early Childhood: Psychosocial Development.- PART IV Middle Childhood.- Chapter 11 Middle Childhood: Biosocial Development.- Chapter 12 Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development.- Chapter 13 Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development.- PART V Adolescence.- Chapter 14 Adolescence: Biosocial Development.- Chapter 15 Adolescence: Cognitive Development.- Chapter 16 Adolescence: Psychosocial Development.- EPILOGUE Emerging Adulthood