Child and Adolescent Development  takes a chronological approach to the study of child development, with an applied focus.  Authors Anita Woolfolk and Nancy Perry describe the characteristics and the developmental milestones of the major developmental periods -- infancy and toddlerhood, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence --  and discuss the implications and applications of research in child development.  The text provides reliable and practical guidelines to help prospective teachers and other professionals working with children to recognize typical and atypical development and to support the development of children and adolescents in positive ways. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded video, video analysis exercises, and assessments.

Anita Woolfolk Hoy is a Texas Longhorn—all her degrees are from the University of Texas, Austin, the last one a Ph.D. After working as a psychologist in elementary and secondary schools in central Texas, she joined the faculty at Rutgers University as a professor of educational psychology at Rutgers University, and then moved to The Ohio State University in 1994. Today she is an Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology and Philosophy at Ohio State. Anita’s research focuses on students’ and teachers’ sense of efficacy. With students and colleagues, she has published over 80 books, chapters, and research articles.  Anita has been the editor of Theory Into Practice, a journal that brings the best ideas from research to practicing educators and has served as Vice-President for Division K (Teaching & Teacher Education) of the American Educational Research Association and President of Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.

Nancy Perry worked as a classroom and resource teacher in school districts in British Columbia, Canada, before obtaining her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1996. Today she is Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where she teaches courses in the Human Development, Learning, and Culture and in the Special Education program. She is a recipient of UBC’s Killam Teaching Prize and holds a UBC endowed Professorship for the Faculty of Education’s Struggling Youth Initiative. Currently, she is a section editor for the Journal of Learning and Instruction and serves on the editorial boards of several additional journals She is a Past President of the Canadian Association for Educational Psychology and has served on the Executive Boards of the Canadian Association for Studies in Education and Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.