Essentials of life-span development / Santrack, John W.

Instructors from across the country have clamoured for a streamlined text that captures the core concepts of life-span development "Santrock Essentials" was developed to help meet the ever-changing needs of students in the lifespan course. This books introduces an adaptive diagnostic that helps students know what they know and know what they know to become more efficient learners. Organized in a concise format, "Santrock Essentials" helps students relate to the material and study more efficiently by driving them to the applicable reading content in a format that is more student-friendly. Based on hallmark features-its expert contributors, updated research and focus on applications. The author provides the most dependable and current presentation of life span development available, and he does so in a briefer format and with our adaptive diagnostic helping to ensure that your students will read and appreciate the material while seeing the applications to their everyday life. In Santrock, our new Milestones video and assessment program helps bring the course material to life. This book was carefully designed and constructed to deliver these core concepts along with a strong applications focus reflecting the broad range of interest and backgrounds of students taking this course.