Infant Development: A Topical Approach

About this book

Infant Development: 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 Fogels classic text Infancy: Infant family and society 5th Edition (Sloan Publishing) which is organized by ages and stages Infant Development: 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.