Cognella Academic Publishing Counseling and Teaching Across the Life Span: A Humanistic Perspective

Featuring chapters written by interdisciplinary scholars, Counseling and Teaching Across the Life Span: A Humanistic Perspective provides readers with a balanced presentation of historical, scientific, and psychosocial information on human development. The text presents cutting-edge material on human development across the life span from preconception to the end of life and beyond. It explores the related aspects of biological, cognitive, emotional, spiritual, and environmental segments that contribute to the making of a person. The text discusses the influence of heredity, genetics, attachment, nutrition, neuroscience, spectrum disorders, addictions, cultural and ethnic differences, gender, sexual orientation, and more in each stage of life. Counseling and Teaching across the Life Span is an ideal textbook for courses and programs in education, counseling, counselor education, and other social sciences that require robust knowledge and study of human development across the life span.