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Coaching Motor Learning, Fitness, and Development for Young Children, 2nd edition, continues building and developing approaches to advancing a child’s world of motor learning, fitness, and development. This new edition delivers a foundational approach and perspective and provides a viewpoint of movement knowledge, and movement skills as children experience, mature, and explore movement through their developmental years. This foundational and fundamental approach connects the relevancy and…

Child Development: A Social Science Perspective addresses growth from the prenatal period through adolescence, blending psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology, education, and social work. Grounded in an assets-based, humanistic philosophy, it integrates ethical frameworks, global perspectives, and real-world applications. With research, case studies, and field activities, it helps readers understand developmental complexity and highlights opportunities for children’s participation, wellbeing, and potential across varied contexts.

SUPPORTING CHILDREN’S SOCIALIZATION: A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH examines the various contexts of children’s socialization—including family, friends, school, and culture—by applying the Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model. 

This practical text will help explain what influences a child’s socialization; throughout, insightful videos and features help illustrate key concepts in real-world settings.

Early Child Development: From Theory to Practice, second edition, is an applied guide to child development for those who plan to work with children from birth to age 8 years. 

Its focus is on developmental milestones for each age and domain and various ways to plan, create, and implement developmentally appropriate environments, care and learning opportunities. While helping students identify normative benchmarks, the text also helps them understand accepted ranges of diversity within each area due to normal variability, as well as cultural, racial, and…

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT, Second Edition, is a practical guide to the developing child that covers conception through the end of adolescence. 

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Fathers Shaping Child Development does what no previous textbook on human development has done before, it talks about how important fathers are to the upbringing and optimal development of their children. It focuses on fathers’ contribution to child development and covers the developmental periods from prenatal to adolescence. This text is intended to be used as a supplement to regular Developmental Psychology Texts such as currently used in courses covering Child psychology, Social and Personality Development, and Human Life-Span Development. Each chapter…

Case Studies in Child and Family Services is a collection of case studies and vignettes applicable to working with children, adolescents, and families. This text brings alive concepts learned in classes and theories of human and family studies. Through these vignettes and cases, the reader can apply concepts learned and design interventions, classrooms, home visits, and activities for young children and their families. 

The typical home visitor will face daily challenges that range from education, poverty, child abuse, domestic violence, disability,…

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This specific case study deals with a couple (an Asian wife and American husband) who have two young biracial kids. The husband, Mark, feels that since the children are born in the United States, they should be raised with American values. The Asian wife, Ling, would like to expose the kids to Asian beliefs, language, and customs. Although Ling was born in China, she has been living in the United States for over 20 years. She has developed an appreciation for both cultures. Ling is torn between respecting her husband’s perspectives and accommodating her…

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Where Was This Book When I Became a Parent? A Caretaker's Condensed and Straight-Forward Guide to Enhancing Development Through Infancy is a valuable theoretically-based tool to enhance children’s development, especially during pregnancy.

Where Was This Book When I Became a Parent? provides a solid framework of theory and research and simply lays out significant elements of child development along with enhancement strategies which…