John W. Santrock

Print ISBN: 9781260571318 Ebook ISBN: 9781260589955

Available January 2022

As a master teacher, John Santrock connects current research with real-world applications, helping students see how developmental psychology plays a role in their own lives and future careers Through an integrated learning goals system, this comprehensive approach to adolescent development helps students gain the insight they need to study smarter, stay focused, and improve performance

In further conversations with students, he explored how he could improve the course and the text by using connecting as a theme. The following is an outgrowth of those conversations focused on a connections theme, and he incorporated it into the main goals of the eighteenth edition:

1 Connecting with today’s students To help students learn more about adolescent and emerging adult development

2. Connecting research to what we know about development To provide students with the best and most recent theory and research in the world today about adolescence and emerging adulthood.

3. Connecting topical processes in development To guide students in making topical connections across different aspects of adolescent and emerging adult development.

4 Connecting development to the real world To help students understand ways to apply content about adolescence and emerging adulthood to the real world and improve the lives of youth, and to motivate them to think deeply about their own personal journeys and better understand who they were are and will be

What's New?

With more than 1,400 citations from 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022

Includes a new main section, “Schools and the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Additional areas of targeted revision include the positive aspects of adolescents’ lives, including health and well-being and identity issues