Always reflective of the latest research & thinking in the field Patricia Miller's acclaimed text offers an ideal way to help students understand & distinguish the major theoretical schools of child development This fully updated new edition
Includes:: a new focus on biological theories of development & offers new instructor resource materials Each major theory is discussed in terms of general orientation mechanisms of development its' strengths & weaknesses its' applications the historical context that led to its' development & in an all new section the contemporary research associated with it