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. About the Author Noréal F. Armstrong holds a Ph.D. in counselor education and supervision from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is a licensed clinical mental health counselor supervisor, national certified counselor, licensed chemical dependency counselor, and the executive director and CEO of A Therapist Like Me in Asheville, North Carolina.Sharon Bowles holds a master's degree in secondary education with an emphasis in school counseling from the University of San Francisco. She is a retired math teacher and head school counselor with 34 years of service and a retired counselor educator from San Francisco State University with 15 years of service.Emma Borens holds a master's degree in guidance and counseling from North Carolina Central University. She is a retired school counselor of more than 30 years and a retired counselor educator from San Francisco State University with 15 years of service.