Book Title: PSY 235 Child Psychology
Book Description: The purpose of the course is to provide the student with a comprehensive understanding of the methods, theories and main concepts related to child development. The course offers scientific and practical guidance to those who:1) work with, care for, or raise children, 2) design prevention and health promotion programs for children and 3) provide opportunities for children to thrive. There will be a special emphasis on the theories of development, offering descriptions and explanations of cognitive, motor, social, linguistic, emotional, personality, and moral development. The conditions and environments within which development takes place will be discussed, including an emphasis on those factors which promote positive development. A major goal of the course is for students to demonstrate an understanding of the interaction between the developing child and acontinually changing world.
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Book Description
The purpose of the course is to provide the student with a comprehensive understanding of the methods, theories and main concepts related to child development. The course offers scientific and practical guidance to those who:
1) work with, care for, or raise children,
2) design prevention and health promotion programs for children and
3) provide opportunities for children to thrive.
There will be a special emphasis on the theories of development, offering descriptions and explanations of cognitive, motor, social, linguistic, emotional, personality, and moral development. The conditions and environments within which
development takes place will be discussed, including an emphasis on those factors which promote positive development. A major goal of the course is for students to demonstrate an understanding of the interaction between the developing child and a continually changing world.
This Open Educational Resource has been adapted for Northern Virginia Community College’s PSY 235 Childhood Psychology Course. The original resource was created by Professor Bill Pelz of Herkimer County Community College’s Center for Global Learning and has since been adapted by Laura Overstreet to reflect current trends in Developmental Psychology. These materials were originally published freely under a Creative Commons Attribution License (you can review the license at
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). The original version of the materials as published as Psyc 200 Lifespan Development may be accessed for free at http://opencourselibrary.org/econ-201/.
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This book is a cloned version of Developmental Psychology by Herkimer, Bill Pelz, published using Pressbooks under a CC BY (Attribution) license. It may differ from the original.
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PSY 235 Child Psychology Copyright © by Lumen Learning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
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PSY 235 Child Psychology Copyright © by Lumen Learning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This Open Educational Resource has been adapted for Northern Virginia Community College’s PSY 235 Childhood Psychology Course. The original resource was created by Professor Bill Pelz of Herkimer County Community College’s Center for Global Learning and has since been adapted by Laura Overstreet to reflect current trends in Developmental Psychology.