This new edition of Human Development has been thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate recent developments in the field. New material is introduced on the development of a sense of self, the social self and moral development.

Beginning with a discussion of birth and childhood, the reader is lead through each of the crucial stages in human development, through adolescence, parenthood, mid-life and old age to dying, grief and mourning. A range of theoretical perspectives are represented, including psychoanalysis and developmental psychology. Throughout, the authors manage to combine scientific objectivity with a sensitive and sympathetic approach to the subject.

This comprehensive introduction will prove invaluable to students of the helping professions.