Human Growth and Development

Human Growth and Development by Chris Beckett is a comprehensive resource published by SAGE Publications on April 22, 2019. This Fourth Edition spans 296 pages and is presented in English, making it accessible for students training for careers in the helping professions. The book covers essential topics that are crucial for understanding individuals in various roles, including clients, service users, patients, or pupils. It follows the trajectory of human life from birth to death, integrating theoretical concepts with reflective learning to foster a deeper understanding of growth and change throughout life.
Readers will find that this edition includes a new online case study resource titled Tangled Webs, which allows students to engage with key issues and themes presented in the text. By exploring the lives of individuals in the fictional London Borough of Bexford, students can link theory to practice, examining complex situations similar to those they may encounter in their professional lives. This resource enhances the learning experience by encouraging critical thinking about the concepts of human growth and development in real-world contexts.
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Written for students training for careers in the helping professions, this Fourth Edition covers all the essential topics central to understanding people whether they are clients, service users, patients or pupils. Following the shape of a human life, beginning with birth and ending with death, it combines theoretical concepts and reflective learning to help your students develop an understanding of what makes us grow and change over our lives.
The NEW Online Case Study Resource – Tangled Webs
Now you and your students can explore key issues and themes raised in the book and develop the skill of linking theory to practice with free access to a new online case study resource. By following the lives of people living in the fictional London Borough of Bexford, this series of interlinked and extended case studies will allow your students to explore complex situations, much as they might do as practitioners in their working lives, and consider what ideas about Human Growth and Development might inform their thinking and practice.
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