This course, based on Lifespan Development: A Topical Approach by Nicole Arduini-VanHoose, includes additional material from Child and Adolescent Psychology, The Whole Child: Development in the Early Years, and Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective.
Chapter 1 was developed as part of an independent study at James Madison University and was edited and adapted by the following students:
Chapter 8, the gender identity and sexuality sections of chapter 11, and chapter 12 were edited and adapted by James Madison University student Sara Buie.
This book is a work in progress and was last updated in August 2024.
If you have comments or suggestions about this book, please email jakobskv@jmu.edu.
Child and Adolescent Development Copyright © 2023 by Krisztina Jakobsen and Paige Fischer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
