A Child's Odyssey

A Child’s Odyssey offers students the combination of clear explanations of central concepts, interesting and sometimes humorous examples and vignettes, and an emphasis on issues in child development.

Now in a 16 chapter format, A Child’s Odyssey provides greater coverage of physical and cognitive development in early and middle childhood while keeping the 3 chapter parallel coverage of infancy, early childhood, middle childhood and adolescence.

A Child’s Odyssey:

• offers expanded or new coverage on a wide range of topics including emotion regulation, early intervention, theory of mind, video games, obesity, evolutionary developmental psychology, brain research, empathy, handedness, educational issues, and parental monitoring.
• Includes student friendly pedagogical features such as key questions at the beginning of each chapter, review questions after each major section, frequently asked questions, and a running glossary throughout.
• Cross-Cultural Focus sections present a variety of cross-cultural research studies in depth. These thought provoking sections raise fascinating questions and the research results are often surprising.