Theories of developmental psychology

Always reflective of the latest research and thinking in the field, Patricia Miller’s acclaimed text offers an ideal way to help students understand and distinguish the major theoretical schools of child development. This fully updated new edition includes a new focus on biological theories of development, and offers new instructor resource materials.Each major theory is discussed in terms of general orientation, mechanisms of development, its’ strengths and weaknesses, its’ applications, the historical context that led to its’ development, and in an all new section the contemporary research associated with it.