Main description:

Written specifically for counselors-in-training, this practical new text features an engaging writing style with real-life cases and applications. AN ADVANCED LIFESPAN ODYSSEY FOR COUNSELING PROFESSIONALS, 1st Edition, covers the typical lifespan topics, but with a focus on developmental issues you'll encounter as a counseling professional -- and the strategies and techniques to deal with them. Case studies and discussions of current issues anchor the material in the real world. Reflections from parents and current counselors further enhance the text's applied emphasis, giving you ideas for how to integrate the theories and other information into real-life practice. This is a book you'll want to keep on hand long after you leave the course.

Contents:

1. Important Fundamental Principles in Lifespan Development. 2. Theories of Human Development: Psychosocial, Sociocultural, Multicultural, Biological, and Learning Theories. 3. Theories of Human Development: Cognitions, Morality and Faith, and the Human Experience. 4. Genetics, Heredity, and Prenatal Development. 5. Physical and Cognitive Development in the Infancy and Toddlerhood Years. 6. Emotional and Social Development in the Infancy and Toddlerhood Years. 7. The Preschool Years of Early Childhood Physical and Cognitive Development. 8. The Preschool Years: Early Childhood Emotional and Social Development. 9. Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development. 10. The Elementary Years of Middle Childhood: Emotional and Social Development. 11. The Adolescent Years: Physical and Cognitive Development. 12. The Adolescent Years: Emotional, Identity, and Social Development. 13. Young Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development. 14. Young Adulthood: Social, Emotional, and Career Development. 15. Middle Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development. 16. Middle Adulthood: Social/Emotional, Family, Career, and Spiritual Development. 17. Later Adulthood and Old Age: Physical, Cognitive and Social Developmental Aspects of Aging. 18. Later Adulthood and Old Age: Psychosocial and Work/Retirement Development.