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Pathfinder: Lifespan Development
Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Videos
Scope: Lifespan development psychology
adheres to the theory espoused by noted psychologist
Eric Erikson who believed people develop psychologically
throughout life beginning in infancy until maturity.
Topics covered include the life stages of infancy,
childhood and adolescence and adulthood. The purpose of
this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student
research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing
of all resources available in the library on this topic,
but as a selective sampling of the many types of
materials available.
Books dealing with the topic of lifespan development are
listed in the Baddour Library’s online catalog under the
following subject headings:
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Child development
Developmental psychology
Maturation (Psychology)
There are sources located in the Reference Section of
the Baddour Library that give a general overview or
summary of the topic you are researching. The following
is a list of some of the sources available in the
library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF BF713.B565 2002 Blackwell Handbook of Childhood
Social Development
REF RJ131.B475 2001 Blackwell Handbook of Infant
Development
REF BF149.C36 1998 A Century of Psychology as Science
REF BF 575.A86 H36 1999 Handbook of Attachment: Theory,
Research, and Clinical Applications
REF BF713.H364 2003 Handbook of Developmental Psychology
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Anderson, Clifford.
The Stages of Life: A Groundbreaking
Discovery: The Steps to
Psychological Maturity. New York: Atlantic Monthly
Press, 1995.
Apter, T.E.
The Myth of Maturity: What Teenagers Need
from Parents to Become Adults. New York: W.W. Norton,
2002.
Bornstein, Marc H.
Development in Infancy: An
Introduction. New York: McGraw-
Hill, 1992.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
Open Access Journals in
Biology
Open Access Journals in
Life Sciences
VIDEOS
BF131.D55x
Discovering Psychology
Updated
08/24/2007
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