The entire lifespan in 500 pages. What’s the greatest challenge in teaching the Life-Span Development course? Covering a lifetime of material in a single term. Instructors from across the country have clamored for a streamlined text that captures the core concepts of life-span development. Essentials of Life-Span Development was carefully designed and constructed to deliver these core concepts along with a strong applications focus reflecting the broad range of interests and backgrounds of students taking this course. And as always with John Santrock’s texts, the latest research in the field is incorporated throughout....

Thorough. Accurate. Reliable. Engaging. These are just a few of the words used by adopters and reviewers of John Santrock’s Child Development. Child Development is widely considered the most accurate and up-to-date topically-organized text in the field. Used by hundreds of thousands of students over eleven editions, its learning goals-driven learning system provides a clear roadmap to student understanding of the content. The fully revised twelfth edition reinforces the highly contemporary tone and focus by featuring hundreds of new citations....

In this new text for Psychology of Adjustment courses, John Santrock presents psychology as a research-based science that can be applied successfully to improving personal adjustment. Providing numerous opportunities for self-evaluation and strategies for adjustment, Human Adjustment helps students cope effectively with the challenges they face....

More students learn from John Santrock’s Adolescence than from any other text in this field. The 13th edition combines proven pedagogy and the most current research to provide a market leading presentation of adolescence. This time tested text provides compelling contemporary research, including updates from eleven leading experts in the field. The text's accessible presentation, plentiful applications and engaging writing foster increased mastery of the content. The new edition includes substantially expanded material on diversity and culture, adolescents’ and emerging adults’ health and well-being, including numerous recommendations for improving the lives of adolescents, and expanded emphasis on the positive aspects of adolescent development....