Career Development and Systems Theory: Connecting Theory and Practice offers
practitioners, researchers and students a comprehensive introduction to, and overview of …

This chapter describes positive youth development (PYD) as an emerging arena of applied
developmental science. We show how PYD is both rooted in the theoretical traditions of …

Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development presents cutting-edge thinking
and research on linkages among socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development …

This chapter examines neurobiological development in normal and illustrative high‐risk
conditions and mental disorders. It reviews relevant findings on neural plasticity and their …

We discuss whole-child development, learning, and thriving through a dynamic systems
theory lens that focuses on the United States and includes an analysis of historical …

Throughout history the field of motor development has employed a number of metaphors to
explain how motor skills develop. These metaphors have typically described either the …

Conceptual change research investigates the processes through which learners
substantially revise prior knowledge and acquire new concepts. Tracing its heritage to …

This book examines what it means to develop as an exemplary young person-that is, a
young person who is thriving within the community and on the rise to a hopeful future. The …

A comprehensive theory of gender development must describe and explain long-term
developmental patterning and changes and how gender is experienced in the short term …

The contribution of cognitive perspectives (cognitive-developmental theory and gender
schema theory) to a contemporary understanding of gender development is evaluated …