This locally adapted textbook helps students gain a deeper understanding of the many interacting forces affecting infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. It includes local, multicultural and indigenous issues and perspectives, local research in development, regionally relevant statistical information, and National guidelines on health.

Each chapter focuses on a domain of development such as physical growth, cognition, or personality, and traces developmental trends and influences in that domain from infancy to old age. Within each chapter, you will find sections on four life stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. This unique organisation enables students to comprehend the processes of transformation that occur in key areas of human development.

1. Understanding lifespan human development
2. Theories of human development
3. Genes, environment and the beginnings of life
4. Physical growth, motor development and health
5. Cognitive development
6. Sensory-perception, attention and memory
7. Intelligence and creativity
8. Language, literacy and learning
9. Self and personality
10. Social cognition and moral development
11. Emotions, attachment and social relationships
12. Developmental psychopathology
13. The final challenge: Death and dying

This locally adapted textbook helps students gain a deeper understanding of the many interacting forces affecting infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. It includes local, multicultural and indigenous issues and perspectives, local research in development, regionally relevant statistical information, and National guidelines on health. Each chapter focuses on a domain of development such as physical growth, cognition, or personality, and traces developmental trends and influences in that domain from infancy to old age. Within each chapter, you will find sections on four life stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. This unique organisation enables students to comprehend the processes of transformation that occur in key areas of human development. NEW CengageNOW website for students includes a personalised learning plan to help students identify topics they have mastered and guide them to a range of interactive resources to support their revision. NEW Professional Practice boxes use interviews with real professionals in this area to illustrate how developmental psychology theory relates to and informs the day-to-day practice of psychologists, social workers and educators NEW Professional Practice boxes use interviews with real professionals in this area to illustrate how developmental psychology theory relates to and informs the day-to-day practice of psychologists, social workers and educators Updated coverage of the impact of DSM-5 on developmental psychopathology in Chapter 12 More coverage of local, indigenous and cross-cultural topics in developmental psychology through the life span to further reflect the relevance to Australia and New Zealand NEW Statistics snapshot boxes to highlight important data relating to this region MindTap® for Sigelman’s Life Span Human Development, an interactive online teaching and learning platform, integrates course readings, Observing Development videos, Understanding the Data interactive activities, Search Me! activities, apps, and assessments into a learning path that guides students through the course. Instructors can easily modify content, integrate their own content, and follow student progress with powerful analytics and reports. An integrated topical and chronological approach: The authors have organised the chapters topically to emphasise developmental processes, such as how nature and nurture interact over the life-span to bring about normal developmental changes and create differences among individuals. Within each chapter, they organise their discussion of the material under four major chronological sections – infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood – which calls attention to the distinctive qualities of each age/stage Each chapter begins with Learning outcomes to help students identify what they will be learning and what they will be able to do after reading the chapter