Textbooks

Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach helps you examine this dynamic age period through the lens of the world's diverse cultures. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett and new co-author Lene Arnett Jensen explore the impact of both cultural and historical context upon development. The text is distinguished by its emphasis on the period of emerging adulthood (ages 18 to 25), a growing area of study. The 7th Edition offers new end-of-chapter reflections that encourage you to consider the big picture. Fresh content in each chapter pertaining to cultural similarities and differences helps you see how the development of adolescents and emerging adults is influenced by the culture in which they live.

Child Development: A Cultural Approach helps you understand how culture impacts development, and why it matters. The text teaches you how to think culturally about human development throughout our diverse, increasingly globalized world. Author Jeffrey Jensen Arnett and new co-author Lene Arnett Jensen weave an engaging chronological narrative that traces development from birth through emerging adulthood, integrating current research and cross-cultural examples from around the globe throughout. For the 3rd Edition, the authors utilize an expanded chapter organization and a fresh approach, characterized by additional cross-cultural perspectives, to better highlight the cultural aspects of development.

Human Development: A Cultural Approach helps you understand how culture impacts development, and why it matters. The text examines all stages of development through the engaging lens of culture. Author Jeffrey Jensen Arnett and new coauthor Lene Arnett Jensen integrate cross-cultural examples throughout the narrative to reveal the impact of cultural factors both in the United States and around the world.

The 3rd Edition offers updated research and fresh topics to best prepare you to face challenges in our diverse and globalized world. Examples of topics receiving new and updated coverage include the diets of American children, executive function in middle childhood, and sleep in emerging adulthood.

An expansive, topical approach to how culture impacts development.

Child Development Worldwide presents a topical examination of all stages of development — from prenatal development through middle childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood — through the engaging lens of culture. Cross-cultural examples integrated throughout the narrative reveal the impact of cultural factors both in the US and around the world. Authors Lene Arnett Jensen and Jeffrey Jensen Arnett emphasize culture to foster a thorough, balanced view of development that prepares students to face challenges in our diverse and globalized world — whether they travel the globe or remain in their hometowns.

Child Development Worldwide is also available via Revel™, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience.